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Kids Club at Immortal Valley, 2021/05/30
For this Kids Club hike we walked up Immortal Valley to the ‘Big Buddha’, passing cliffs, boulders, and cool pools of water on the way—see 20 photos.
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High Tower and Huanglouyuan, 2021/05/26
An incoming storm cut this hike short, but before the rain came through we had beautiful long views from the hills and open ridgelines below the High Tower—see 14 photos.
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Hiking and Gingerbread-making at Taoyukou Village, 2021/05/22
A short hike up to see the views from a firewardens’ hut followed by a gingerbread making-and-baking session at a fancy village guesthouse—see a small set of photos.
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Yellow Grass Plateau and Seven Towers, 2021/05/22
See seventeen photos from a hike up to the Yellow Grass Plateau and along ridges and forest trails to the Seven Towers.
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Longquanyu Great Wall, 2021/05/09
See 14 photos from a hike down the Longquanyu Great Wall and up the ‘Big Cloud’ Valley.
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Gubeikou Great Wall to Jinshanling Great Wall, 2021/05/08
The Gubeikou to Jinshanling Great Wall hike is one of the classics, with a mix of repaired and unrepaired Great Wall joined by a ramble through farmland—see 15 photos from the hike.
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Camping at the Stone Valley Great Wall, 2021/05/03
For the Labour Day holiday weekend we headed out to Stone Valley to camp high up on the wall—see 21 photos of Great Wall and green hills.
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Hemp Village to Gubeikou Great Wall sundown hike, 2021/05/03
With cloudy skies and a touch of light rain the sundown part of this hike didn't work so great, but the views of the Great Wall in the late afternoon were still worth it—see 15 photos.
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Prove Your Loyalty, 2021/05/01
Fourteen photos from the Prove Your Loyalty hike, a long walk through hills and valleys in Pinggu District.
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