Since I sat at home all of Saturday playing Fat Princess, I woke up on Sunday and thought that I’d go out and get some hiking done. Decided to try a 34km hike covering stages 1-6 of Hong Kong trail. Yes I know! I just did the trail last month. But I needed to go back to remind myself of a few things I forgot to check out last time, plus my trail time for stages 1-4 were absolutely horrible (probably cause I was too busy taking pictures of butterflies and giant spiders).

*Yeah it doesn’t add up. The totals include breaks and lunch in-between the stages.

I pulled a much better trail time especially for stages 1-3. Other things I noted was that the weather was slightly cooler than last time (and it was cloudy/raining last time, while sunny this time) but as a trade-off it got darker about 30 minutes earlier resulting in me hiking the last 30 minutes though the forest in the dark. Luckily I had my headlamp packed. If I really do want to attempt a one day powerhike thought Hong Kong trail, it should be within the next month or so. I’m guessing I’ll need about 10 hours to pull the whole thing off? (since I didn’t actually jog any of it, I expect my times to be a little better than the times listed above.)

Originally I was going to tackle the 75km Lantau Trail over two days next weekend, but I don’t think I’m quite prepared for it yet (as of Monday evening my legs are still sore. Not sore enough to stop me from a light jog though). Perhaps I’ll split it over 3 days instead, 2 days next weekend and 1 day the weekend after. We’ll see how I feel (and how far I actually get) after the first day.

I have a few photos, but there was alot of smog over Hong Kong so that kinda sucked. Feel free to check it out anyway.

p.s. Fat Princess is addictively fun, I was kinda surprised I found it on the Asian Playstaion Network.
p.p.s I lost the access card to my condo somewhere along the trail (I think it was when I was rummaging for my headlamp). If someone finds a blue access card with my name on it.. WELL TOO LATE! I already canceled it, since it has money for the gym and swimming pool on the card…