Hiking

While most of the people were still struggling to get up in the cold weather on Sunday morning, I met up with a bunch of friends at 10am at Parkview to start our 3 hr hike. It is totally refreshing to immerse ourselves into mountains and trees and fresh air, which is a luxury in this concert canyon HK.

Apparently I didn't know what I have signed up for in the very beginning and it turned out to be quite an ambitious hiking trail to test my stamina and persistency. We started with parkview and went along the HK trail over three hilltops and ended at stanley...what i can say is.. it involved a lot of steps...I felt like I climbing up the IFC tower, and running down the steep slope with shivering legs.

Along the trail we didn't see that many young people like us.. but most of the hikers are mid-age couples and elderlies...it seemed like most of the twenty-sth people must have partied too hard on Sat night and they were still sleeping in and weathering the hangover. It is amazing to see all these older age hikers are so much stronger and fit.. while we were whinning how many steps have we left to accomplish, they climbed 1000 steps and didn't feel a thing.

This is where we have down the first hilltop and forward looking to the second one...


Scary steps leading up to the second hilltop..imagining not being able to see the end of it for the entire 30 minutes..


Not including the 1st and the 3rd one.. which are easier, the second uphill has a total of 954 steps, translating to about 40+ floors.

I almost screamed with joy when I saw repulse bay.. and then stanley!

In order to compensate for the soreness of our leg muscles, we overdosed ourselves with fish and chips and ice-cream as a perfect ending for our accomplishment.