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Published: March 5th 2007
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Headwaters in JiXi
A creek as our start. As chinese tradition, the spring festival is going home, reunion with family, joys, celebration, geting squash-year money (otherpeoples call it red-envelop),delicious foods and many joyful thing. Everyone has hardworking or hardstudy for a whole year, time for relax.
But one thing is terrible that any foreigner can't imagine and believe, that is the biggest rush hour in this world that we call it "spring-transmission". Many people queued to buy a train ticket for more than 3 days. billion of people was moving in trip while spring-transmission. So spring festival is being exhausted too.
I couldn't get home this year ( I mean chinese year) because it's very very tough to get a ticket for home. But I wasn' t complaining. I got a joyful trekking trip and a best friend Daniel in this holiday. He sent me some interesting mail and his family's legend stories surprise me. I would give them a chinese blessing in the spring festival 2007.
Our equipments are not too good, especially on wearring. I had not received the climbing-staff I bought when we headed to Jixi town. We picked 2 ugly bamboo staff up as the climbing-staff casually. It made us look funny
Lee at "wild boar tang"
I don't know how to say "tang" in English, sorry! and you'll see in those pictures. Even so they help us saved lots of sinews and my wife said we should thank them finally.
Day1
We missed the bus which it go out at 7:00 am, we had to choose the 9:45 one. When we reached Jixi town the time was 2:30pm , it was 2 hours later than the plan. We didn't know the time is enough or not to get the camping site. The small store where is at the entry of the trail is selling map (Hand-draw but has more detail). Seems many peoples come there. After being many peoples encouraged we decided to get on the mountain. They told us just needs 2.5 hours we could get the camping site.
We walked through the small village is named Yuchuan. Peoples who like outdoor hiking are nicknamed "neddy" in chinese, villagers didn't surprise our visiting, too many neddy walks through their village. We can easily see the signature on the wall of famer's house were directing where we go. Some warmhearted neddy drew thoes arrows.
A stone steps path goes on the mountainside, right side is cliff. We were climbing carefully. Cell phones
Bridge
A bridge is consisted by 4 trees was disconnected when we went out the village. "Now we can depend ourselves". Sometimes I saw old people was walking easily and I had to admire them. Sometimes I saw other neddies who were getting down from our opposite. It seems like there are many people who didn't return home in the spring festival holiday, like me they chose hiking.
Time went to night, it was becaming dark and dark. We had to hold play and hurry up. 6:00pm we got Huangmao-pei,but we had not catched the place where we promised to meet our guide. When we were wondering how long we left the way, A tractor driver told us we were 12 km far from the camping site. We decided stay over the night at one of famer's house. the driver commended one to us. Worse luck our guide went out to pick us and we counldn't contact her (She waited us for 3 hours and I should say 1000 sorry to her, and finally I knew the driver had cheated us to commend the famer's inn). In fact we had only left 3km way to the meet-waypoint when we were Huangmao-pei. It's a lesson ,don't let anybody
Lee
Lee looks good! bother the guide has told you. This night we missed plan again. However the famer's house afforded hot water, that was not bad!
Day2
The breakfast were good. Hostess made a table of food for us. We enjoyed the beancurd bag, it was very delicious. Meat were not welcome, we had eaten many in festival. We followed the XiaoYao river which flows through the village is having a beautiful name. XiaoYao means Peripateticism, we were free and walking along XiaoYao river.
2 Hours later we reached Xiaxue tang where is famous in Internet. 2 brother found the inn. But for the bager(traveler who like camping). HuiHang's family is better. They just afford a flat place to provide you setting up tent, of course the cost is lower. We prefer to select the last one. 11:00am, We arrived the camping site "HuiHang's family". It's famous also in Internet. Searching in Google for the keyword "HuiHang ancient caravan trail" in chinese. We'll get millions of results about "HuiHang's family" and "Xiaoli HuiHang". The guide whom we had missed is XiaoLi HuiHang's wife. What a such long name! Neddies alway like call someone's nickname of Internet even when face to
Headwaters in Jixi
The trail follow along one of creeks with limpid water where is in Jixi town. face.
Time was not right, we were not going to finish the trip in a half day. They told us we can only catch where isn't far more than "wild boar tang". There is 4 hours's trip. We had to stay in the camping site, is named Bluesky concave.
It had been rain in the night when we were HuangMao-pei. The ground was wet so we counldn't set up tent immediately. fortunately afternoon was sunny and dried the ground. After meal we get done our tent. We had meal in the barrack of "HuiHang's family", We got a very good reception from XiaoLi(Lee)'s mother in law.
We slept in tent I woke up twice time, was felt cold. It was really cold when 3 o'clock or maybe 4 o'clock. Next morning I found the ground was freeze some place. I regreted that I had not accepted the suggestion of Lee's mother in law. She suggested us to set up our tent in their barrack.
A senior neddy was bring his girlfriend camped near by us. The girl was interested in anything she could see. They was brave! They were going to climb the Wild boar-Tang in
This likes the view where on HuangShan
HuangShan is a famous mountain in china dark night. As we know it's very dangerous. In dark peoples can't see the way well so as to loss the direction very possibly, and they are having high risk such as fall, being snake attacked etc. We persuaded them chang the schedule to wait till next day. After a long consideration they finally give up their attempt. Thank god!
Day 3
We got up early. The bamboo shoot noodle of "HuiHang's family" were very delicious. We this day returned back the plan, that day's trip were tough for 10 peaks. We was going to tramp over 10 peaks to get "Qingliang feng (cool peak)", and return to the site before dark. To get faster we left our heavy equipments at the camping site.
Lee had dreamed a ghost when I woke up at dawn. When she told me this I had not realized some terrible thing will happen. My cellphone can't connect network untill we reached Wild Boar Tang. At the peak my cellphone got the signature, and I got a bad message from my family. I had to cancel the trip to return Hangzhou. When we were Hangzhou we couldn't wait to go home to
Huihang family
Huihang family is famous and best hiking club there. we like simplicity thing. see my family, but we couldn't buy a air-ticket for the damnable Spring rush hour. All ticket in 3 days were sold out. I can't believe I had a such bad festival vacation.
Old peoples said us dreaming ghost doesn't mean good. The time while my wife dreaming ghost is the time when my family have an accident. We were two different place has 2800km distance. Some thing is weird in this world, I didn't believe it but I do now.
I'll never forget the day: February 23th. 2007
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