Re: Taiwan Trails Re: Hiking in the High Peaks Area

CL
Thanks for the links.  Sorry the trails aren't more accessible.  Food for
thought.

Best regards
JD


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Cara Lin Bridgman <[email protected]
> wrote:

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>  [Attachment(s) <#139e394c9e2eb8f1_TopText> from Cara Lin Bridgman
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> JD,
>
> There are lots of places with photos and trip reports, but all in Chinese.
>
> I've a few trip reports here:
> <http://megaview.com.tw/~caralin/hiking/hiking.html> (pictures get
> better with recent trips). I need to update this with a dayhike last
> November on Taiwan's 'Vertigo Trail' (picture of my husband on the trail
> attached - that's the Central Cross Island Highway below, river is even
> further down).
>
> There are more and more organizations (e.g.
> <http://www.taiwan-adventures.com/> and
> <http://hualienoutdoors.org/index.php/river-tracing>) that organize
> trips for 'foreigners', including this one advertising at trip to the
> Vertigo Trail:
> <http://barkingdeernews.blogspot.tw/2010/07/jhuilu-trail-tour.html>.
> This page has a few good pictures of the trail and this organization's
> website often has a few good pictures for each featured trail.
>
> Probably the best English website delving into Taiwan politics, life,
> and terrain is this one: <http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/>. He used
> to do more hiking, but permits have gotten harder to get these past 10
> years, so he switched to biking.
>
> AD&I have been having our own problems getting permits. So, we've
> actually been hiking less and I've been biking more (my daily commutes
> around Taichung City). Since the 7.0 earthquake in September 1999 (the
> 921 Earthquake) and the typhoons more recently (especially Typhoon
> Morakot in August 2010), trails tend to be closed. Because of the 921
> Earthquake and subsequent typhoons, trail conditions are MUCH worse than
> they were 20 years ago. We both long for the old days of my
> dissertation field research when no one cared if the trails were
> 'impassible' or if we fell off a mountain...
>
> CL
>
> JD Schaefer wrote:
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> > Cara Lin
> > Is there a favorite website that would best represent Taiwan? I
> > visited KaoShung in the late '70s and remember a delightful reservoir
> > and park above town.
> >
> > Thanks
> > JD
> > PS Attached 1st photo is of Cub Lake in RMNP the other day followed by
> > Lake Odessa where I took the wrong trail and ended up at Lake Ilene
> > the hard way and finally some Fall colors coming down to Bear Lake
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Cara Lin Bridgman
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > My husband and I feel this way about Taiwan...
> >
> > [email protected] <mailto:tslaughter015%40aol.com> wrote:
> > > I suspect that CO has so many good places to hike it would be
> > > impossible to do them all in one life time.
> >
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