See fourteen photos from a ramble around the hills between Zhenbiancheng and Shuitou—green hills, sunshine, flowers, and a little bit of the Zhenbiancheng Great Wall.
Read more about Shuitou Village Loop hike, 2021/07/31

On this visit to Immortal Valley we saw waterfalls and pools of clear water, plus a bunch of wildflowers and mushrooms—see 18 photos.
Read more about Immortal Valley Loop hike, 2021/07/24

After a lot of rain in the preceding days, we arrived at Longquanyu to find the wall cloud-covered, misty, and mysterious. And we found where all that rain went—down into the valleys, which we avoided for fear of a mudbath. See 16 photos.
Read more about Longquanyu Great Wall, 2021/07/14

We spent the day strolling about Cuandixia, hiking up for a view from above before exploring the lanes and alleys—see 10 photos.
Read more about Cuandixia ‘Ming Village’ day trip, 2020/07/10

We managed to fit the hike perfectly between two heavy spells of rain, with blue skies and green hills all around—see 10 photos from the Gubeikou Great Wall.
Read more about Gubeikou Great Wall Loop, 2021/07/04

A long walk on the Jingxi Ancient Road took us through valleys and up cliffs to the ’ancient horse hoofprints‘, and then up and around to a nearby peak—see 29 photos.
Read more about Jingxi Ancient Road and Horse Hoofprints, 2021/06/30

After reports from local friends of heavy rain in the area the night before we weren’t sure what we’d find in the valleys here—turns out we found evidence of some flooding, and a lot of mud! See 10 photos.
Read more about Big Cloud Valley and Shuiquan Canyon, 2021/06/26

One of our best summer hikes—an easy trail by the river, shaded paths in places, and clear water to dip in to cool down. See 20 photos.
Read more about Along the White River, 2021/06/20

18km in the heat—this hike turned into a tough one! See 22 photos from the Great Wall at Jinshanling and Gubeikou, including a peek at the west side of Simatai.
Read more about Jinshanling Great Wall to Gubeikou Great Wall, 2021/06/19

We headed out to the cool and breezy Bashang Grasslands for a weekend of hiking—see photos of hiking, hills, BBQ, and fireworks!
Read more about Bashang Grasslands, June 2021

On this hike we did the Stone Valley Great Wall trail and then added on a serious amount of stairclimbing to get up to the top section of the Great Wall here—see 23 photos from the Great Wall surrounded by green.
Read more about Switchback Great Wall, 2021/06/02

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.
Read more about Kids Club at Immortal Valley, 2021/05/30

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.
Read more about High Tower and Huanglouyuan, 2021/05/26

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.
Read more about Hiking and Gingerbread-making at Taoyukou Village, 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.
Read more about Yellow Grass Plateau and Seven Towers, 2021/05/22

See 14 photos from a hike down the Longquanyu Great Wall and up the ‘Big Cloud’ Valley.
Read more about Longquanyu Great Wall, 2021/05/09

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.
Read more about Gubeikou Great Wall to Jinshanling Great Wall, 2021/05/08

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.
Read more about Camping at the Stone Valley Great Wall, 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.
Read more about Hemp Village to Gubeikou Great Wall sundown hike, 2021/05/03

Fourteen photos from the Prove Your Loyalty hike, a long walk through hills and valleys in Pinggu District.
Read more about Prove Your Loyalty, 2021/05/01