China's great peaks
Trip Start
Jan 20, 2008
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47
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Trip End
??? ??, 2010
Huangshan,
Anhui,
China
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
So Jiushao Shan is the most important Buddhist peak, and is named 99 Peaks mountain. There are over 1000 temples and nunneries on the mountain. I would actually prefer to call this a big hill, because it absolutely pales in comparison to Mount Huang Shan, China's most famous and striking mountain. It has moved Taoists and tourists and poets to tears. It moved us to an elevation of 1700 meters!
This was our most incredible China experience. We hiked 7.5 meters up the spectacular Eastern Steps, spent the night in a tent village, woke up at 5am for sunrise...we avoided all the hundreds of people who were also waiting for the sun, and found a secret spot on a peak under the umbrella pines, where we set up our double-wide hammock and watched the blood-red sun rise through the sea of clouds and peaks. It glowed fire for about 10 minutes then disappeared, and we became enveloped in clouds. Then we hiked about 20km in a circle of serious ups and downs around the mountain range and then down the maybe 6000 steps to the base. Then we hopped a bus to Shanghai!
Comments
Wow! How do you get away with carrying weapons?
Cause those guns Heath are carrying gotta be 50cal's! Heath those biceps are getting big man! How many pushups are you up to now? I started your regimen when I got back to the States. I am up to 140 at a time. Yay! Soon I might have something for my lady to grab on to. When we are dancing. boobies, har har.
Sounds like a couple memories are making the top of the list there! China sounds awesome!
Aahh! The hamock. It looks like it is serving you guys well. I love the photos. Wish Chris and I were there with you adventuring. Eat some noodles for us. xoxo
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cookie looks stoned!
Re: Wow! How do you get away with carrying weapons
Nice job Dev, are you doing 140 at once? That's awesome! Up to 760 now. Gonna stop at 1000, then do 1000 in a day once a week, till i die.
Damn! Superman!
I am up to 190 in a day. I am not sure how, I feel, I could do 1000 in a freaking day! I do 4 sets about a minute a part. I was doing three but it got to be too much for me. ;P I do them inverted, not sure that makes a huge difference, except for where the target muscle is. Nice work dude. It works for me, but then I am not super lean and Ninja strong like some guys. ;)