See 16 photos from a hike in the mountains around Miaofengshan Temple: misty and foggy scenery, with hills full of colourful leaves.

See a selection of photos from the hiking festival – starting shots, mid-hike scenery, and the post-hike picnic and prizegiving.

It was our third hiking festival, as well as our fifteenth birthday party – we’ve been doing hikes and trips since 2001!

We hiked the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Gubeikou on one of the few days during the Golden Week holiday where the weather was acting nice – no smog, no rain, all clear and sunny.

With weather like that, the photos we took turned out well. Click through for a look – you’ll see great shots of the tastefully renovated wall at Jinshanling and the unrestored Great Wall at Gubeikou.

The Jiankou section of the Great wall is one of our favourite places to hike for two reasons: the views are impressive and the area is seldom visited. On this hike we had clear skies and a nice breeze to make for a fantastic day of hiking. Click through to see the photos!

The Yanqing Great Wall and High Tower trail is one of our favourite long walks in Beijing—about 17km long, with a lot of climbing up and down, and great views the whole way.

We lucked out with the weather on this visit as well, coming through a big fog on the drive there and then out into clear skies just in time to start the hike.

Click through to see 27 photos from our trek up to the High Tower.

We made a 5-day trip to check out monasteries, temples, and small villages in the Tibetan area of Gannan, driving more than 900km through the mountains and getting a great look at local Tibetan and Muslim culture.

The scenery was varied: monasteries and mosques, grasslands and mountains, and 4,000m-plus mountains. Click through to see Katie’s photos from the trip!

Forty-seven photos of a late-summer hike through Big Camp Plate Village and up a short stretch of Great Wall, and then down to Hengling Valley to finish. Clear blue skies, great visibility, green hills, and cool temperatures - perfect for a day of hiking.

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The Walled Village to Huanghuacheng hike is one of our popular Huairou area hikes, offering views of village life and farmland as well as the Great Wall in repaired and unrepaired condition.

In August the ‘wild’ section of the wall here is almost hidden by all the leaves of the trees that cover it – click through to see all the photos.

After a month of near constant on-off rain we were happy to see clear skies forecast for the weekend of our camping trip, and, happily, the forecast were accurate.

Click through to take a look at 20+ photos from a camping trip on the Great Wall in Yanqing County, Beijing.

Jinshanling is one of our favorite restored sections of Great Wall. The views are fantastic and it usually isn’t crowded. We had hot weather on this hike, but the bright blue skies made up for it. Click through for 22 photos from a hike on of the clearest days this year.

YogaDigest magazine came to us with an idea for a trip that would include meditation and yoga in an outdoor setting, and asked if we’d be interested in helping them put something together.

We thought it was a great idea, and helped them organise all the logistics—transport, guides, accommodation and food, plus we picked out quiet spots atop hills for meditation and relaxation.

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On some of our Great Wall walks it’s a 40-minute hike before you set foot on top of it, but at Longquanyu it’s just two minutes before you’re up on top.

The hike follows both repaired and unrestored stretches of Great Wall, and finishes with a stroll out past the Little West Lake, a park area where you can see the wall dipping down into the water.

Click through to see 15 photos from our hike along the Great Wall.

In the midst of that run of rainy weather in late July this year we found a few clear days to take the STOMP crew out for a camping trip on the Great Wall.

As a privately-arranged trip it was a bit more flexible—we were able to wait for good weather, and on the second day we were able to get the team back to the city early enough for a rest before their evening performance!

Click through to see photos of the Great Wall, the campsite, and some other action from the trip.

A few mountains over from the super-touristy Badaling section of Great Wall is our ‘Switchback’ Great Wall hike, a short and sweet – and steep! – walk along an unrestored line of wall high up in the hills.

Click through to see photos from a hot day in July!

We had a nice, big group of 18 people on our Bashang Grasslands trip in July. The weather was a mixed bag – a bit of sun, a bit of clouds, a bit of rain. Fun trip, though! Click through to see the photos from the trip.