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| 華梵大學キャンパス上から見る二格山筆架連峰 |
10月の國慶節連休はよい天気に恵まれることが多い。今年も同様で、特に今年はまだまだ暑い。三連休の中日である10月11日に新北市石碇區の華梵大學キャンパスから歩き始め、今年の春にボランティアグループに整備された山道を経由し、以前訪れたことのある山を再訪した。そして、まだ訪れたことのない磨石坑山を経由して下山を予定したが、休日はバス便が少なく、それに間に合わない恐れがあったので登山口までは行ったが、登らずに下山した。
春に刈られた草は、ひと夏を過ぎたあと、すっかりもとに戻って道をふさぐところもあった。森の中はもともと草は多くなく、シダ類が茂るところが多いが、それほど道が隠れているところはなかった。台湾は亜熱帯であるので、自然の力はとても強い。そして、この時期に多い竹葉草の種が、このような草むらを過ぎると衣服に付着し、取るのに難儀した。良い天気のもとで、歩けたことはもちろんよかった。
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| 華梵大學キャンパスから出発、Start from Huanan University in the north |
Hilly Shiding district (石碇區) is situated next to the urban Taipei, yet it keeps plentiful natural environments. It is used to be one of coal mining areas in the northern Taiwan, but the industry has long gone. One of agricultural products that is easily noticed is tee leaves. When you walk along trails there you often come across tee grove terraces that are cultivated on slopes of mountains.
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| At the summit of Mt. Shigongjiwei-shan |
On the second day of three-day holiday of Taiwan's National Day (The double tenth Day October 10 雙十國慶節), friends and I hiked along trails that were maintained by volunteers in this year's spring and visited a few peaks again in the Shiding District. We had a plan to visit Mt. Moshikeng-shan (磨石坑山) on our way down, which we skipped in order to catch a bus that are serviced less frequently on holidays. The weather was very fine except that it was still very warm for this time of a year.
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| #666 terminus stop of Fujingjie |
Huafan University (華梵大學) campus is built on the slope of Mt. Bengshan-dalun (崩山大崙). There is a bus service to the campus from Jingmei (景美), which carries us to a very high location. It would save us a lot of time and sweat. We took a first service of the #666 bus from Jingmei Jingfu street terminus (景福街起站) at 6:48. I chose this bus terminus (at the elevation 455 meters) for our gathering point because I was afraid the bus would quickly be filled up with hikers like us on its way. It had, however, vacant seats until we reached MRT Muzha bus stop (捷運木柵站).
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| #666 bus just arrived at Huafan University campus |
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| Very few people on campus except us |
By the time our bus reached the foot of climb to the campus, the passengers on board were mostly eleven of us and one or two others. It reached the campus bus terminus at 7:52, almost an hour ride. There are few people on the campus as it is Saturday today. We passed through several buildings and stepways in between and came to the top of the campus. At 8:20 we reached the summit of Bengshan-dalun (elevation 568 meters), where we came by the other route in this May.
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| Summit of Mt. Bengshan-dalun |
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| Passing through gardens located on the campus top |
Our next destination, Mt. Shiding-dalun, is on the opposite direction. We come down from the summit and head for it along a ridge trail going over the campus. There are several gardens and stone covered trails going through the gardens. One of such gardens has a glass-walled house in which a statute of the university founder is displayed. Across the overpass lies a garden of many stones and a passaged named hot sausage trail. The trail soon comes to a fork and we take a left path to go up and leave the campus area.
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| another campus garden |
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| Take the left path to leave the campus |
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| A nice trail |
The trail goes faithfully over the ridge contour, which comes up with some ups and downs. At 8:52 we pass a junction for Moshikeng (磨石坑) and take a left path. The trail now steadily climbs and meets a trail from the right. One of our members says that she has a sudden stomachache and leaves us for home. We pass by a half-broken stone shrine of Youyinggong (有應公) and reach the summit of Shiding-dalun (elev. 731m). The summit is surrounded by trees and its circle is clear of grasses, which must have been removed by volunteers as it was very much weed-covered on my last visit.
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| Take the left path to go for Mt. Shiding-dalun |
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| Youyingong stone shrine |
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| Summit of Shiding-dalun |
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| Take the left path again here |
The trail goes down first and hits a fork which diverges a path to Moshikeng. We follow a rather flat trail along the ridge and come to another junction where we will come back later to take another path. This is where a long ridge of east-west direction which comes from Mt. Lielijian (獵貍尖) meets the ridge coming north from Mt. Bengshan-dalun. We take a left trail first and proceed on a rather flat trail in fir woods.
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| Nice flat trail |
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| The junction we will comb back in the afternoon |
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| A fallen fir trunk cut apart |
The trail is well maintained. Fallen trunks on the trail have been cut apart for easy passage. We hit a another junction. A path on the left goes up to Mt. Nanshikeng-shan (南勢坑山) while the other goes down, along which we will come up on our way back in the afternoon. We take the left one and go up to the summit of Nanshikeng-shan (elev. 753m) that is just in a short distance. We reached it at 10:00.
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| The left path to go and right to come back |
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| Nanshikeng-shan |
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| Origination of Jingmei-xi river |
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| Steep climb to Zhuanshifeng |
The Nanshikeng-shan summit does not look like a usual summit. It is given an title of a summit because a marker stone is planted there. The marker is not a regular triangulation marker but an indication of the origination point of Jingmeixi river (景美溪). We keep on our way and climb to the summit of Zuanshifeng (鑽石峰 meaning diamond peak, elev. 783m). There are two huge reddish boulders on the summit, which should represent "diamonds". There is a ladder for climbing to the top of the boulder. No one went up there, though. I remember that I went up to the top on my first visit 12 years ago.
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| Two large boulders sitting on the top |
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| Keep climbing |
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| A little gap to climb over |
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| Going down to climb the opposite hill |
We go over a hump to hit a fork. We take the right path while the left one leads to Mt. Rentoumian-shan (人頭面山). Our trail plunges with a steep grade to a crossroad at its bottom where a trail (Nanshikeng overpass trail 南勢坑越嶺古道) meets ours. We happily feel nice breeze there, which is rather rare today, but we soon face a steep climb back. This stretch of trail from the junction for Rentoumian-shan seems little traveled. Weeds have been grown back very tall on some spots. It was only a half year ago when volunteers removed them. Vegetation of subtropical Taiwan is indeed vigorous. Seeds of Zhuyiecao (竹葉草) stick all over pants and cloths while going through weeds, which is really annoying.
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| Steep descent |
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| Weeds have grown up again |
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| Crossroad at the bottom |
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| Junction for the traversing trail, take the left path first |
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| Going over a mound |
There are a few small humps to go over as we proceed along the ridge. At 11:14 we hit a junction. We take a left trail first for Mt. Shigongjiwei-shan (獅公髻尾山 elev. 840m). The right path goes down to meet a traversing trail which we will take on our way back. Our trail goes up again and finally meets an official trail of Shigongjiwei-shan. We step onto the wide and well maintained trail and reach the summit at 11:30. This is the furthest point of our hike today. A shelter stands on the nice summit. We have a lunch break under its roof.
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| One of weedy sections again |
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| Official trail to Shigongjiwei-shan |
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| The summit is just up in front |
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| Lunch under the roof |
Under today's clear sky the summit is a wonderful vantage point. Toward the north you can have a wide view of the greater Taipei with Yangmingshan (陽明山) as a backdrop and countless peaks spread from the Northeast corner of the Taiwan (東北角) to the boarder ridge with Yilang (宜蘭) in the east. Occasional breeze makes us ever delighted to be here.
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| A view towards Taipei |
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| Leaving Shigongjiwei-shan |
Completing about 40 minutes of rest, we set off for our way back. We take the same route up to the junction for the traversing trail at the mountain foot. The diverged trail goes into a shallow dried creek and has brought us to the bottom junction at 12:30. The traversing trail must have been a work path of forest industry in the past. It goes through fir woods, passing by several patches of tee groves, crossing a dilapidated paved road, and comes to an abandoned cabin of Dacukeng (大粗坑) guard house, a remnant of the past forest industry. A paved road starts in front of the cabin and we follow it for a short while to get to a junction at 13:00.
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| Taking the same path (right) back |
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| Going down a dried creek bed |
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| Junction with the traversing trail |
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| Advancing the traversing trail |
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| Passing by tee orchard, across the valley stands "Pingling three stars" |
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| Dacukeng guard hut |
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| Junction for back to the ridge trail |
After a short rest in a shade we start a short climb back to the ridge route where we walked along this morning and advance the same route in the reversed direction. The junction shows up at 13:30 where we take a sharp left turn and leave the trail of this morning. Our trail goes over the ridge, following its up-and-down contour. In twenty minutes the trail meets a paved road. We then take this paved road down.
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| Back on the ridge trail |
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| Taking the left path for Moshikeng-shan |
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| Keep on the ridge trail |
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| Coming out onto a paved road |
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| Left road for Moshikeng-shan trail head |
In about ten minutes we meet another paved road that leads to the trail head of Mt. Moshikeng-shan. When we reached it, the time was 10 minutes past 14:00. The #666 bus service is infrequent on holidays. If we miss a 15:00 service, the next one is 17:00. In order to catch the 15:00 bus, we decided not to visit Moshikeng-shan and to keep our decent for a nearest bus stop, Huafan street(華梵街站), which we reached at 14:35. Our bus has come a little after 15:00.
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| Moshikeng-shan trail head by the road |
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| A view from #106C motor road (106乙線) |
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| Huafan street bus stop |
Although our starting point was as high as 455 meters in elevation, our total ascent ended up 670 meters and 750 meters for decent. We walked 12.4 kilometers for 6 hours and a half inclusive of all rests. The route physical index amounts to 23.
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