Dahaituo Mountain hike, 2015/04/25
Photos from a hot day’s hike up one of the tallest peaks in Beijing.
Dahaituo Mountain sits right on the border of Beijing’s Yanqing County and neighbouring Hebei Province, and the climb up to the 2,198.388m peak is one of our favourites.
We started off at a small village in the mountains, and followed field paths and cow tracks up onto the ridge that leads to the peak.
After a break for lunch, we continued the climb to the top - a tough slog that gets steeper as it goes.
On such a clear day the views from the top were super: long views of the mountains all around, with the Guanting Reservoir and Yanqing City visible far in the distance.
We somehow had the whole mountain to ourselves on a perfect blue sky day - most unusual, and most welcome! See the photos below.