ShiTing Moutain Hike

Today the hiking guru Matt organized for us to go on a six hour hike around ShiTing which apparently means Stone/Rock. Actually I think the trip was more for Georg to try and get fit for his Napole mountain challenge which happens in two weeks from now.

Hiking team.

The first part of the climb was a mega lung buster it’s was practically vertical the whole way up and very steep and we all arrived at the top like a bunch of sweating dogs! This was probably the most challenging part of the hike.

We had wanted to reach 600 meters but I think this was the highest we were able to get!

We were following the route from a book written by Robert Scott Kelly who had a hiking blog called Pashan. The book we had only had words and no pictures so we had to read along as we went to make sure we took the correct way, so the hike had quite a nice theme to it as we would stop along the way to check to see if we were on the right heading, it was almost like treasure hunting.

Matt reading the way we should go.

Top of the rock.

Laid back.

Georg taking in the views.

Simply beautiful, you can just about see the 101 tower in the background.

This was probably one of the best hiking trips I have been on so far and I defiantly plan to do more the views where amazing and it’s such a great way to get out of the city and take in the fresh air and explore the sights.

Nearly home.