20180827 玉山 Jade Mountain

Table of Contents

General Information
Itinerary
GPX Files
Equipment / Gear
Food
Finances
Lessons Learned / Thoughts
Links
Photos

General Information

Date	2020/08/25-2020/08/27
Distance	10.9 km (one way)
Trail Type	Out-and-Back
Time Needed	2 Day 1 Night + Day 0 for travel
National Park	玉山國家公園
Mtn Range	玉山山系
申請入山	✅
申請入園	✅
百岳	玉山主峰 – 3952m
Difficulty	★★☆☆☆

Went with Taiwan Adventures. They provided a lot of information.

Itinerary

Proposed Itinerary

Saturday, August 25
~2pm Meet in Taipei at a TBD location, drive 4 hours to dinner, then another 1.5 hours to the hotel for the night.
Included: Dinner

Sunday, Aug 26
7am – Wake up, eat breakfast, drive 45 min to the trailhead, check in and start hiking. We’ll get to Paiyun Cabin at 3,400m by around 3pm. Eat dinner, then an early sleep.
Included: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Monday Aug 27
~3am – Wake up, eat breakfast, hike to the peak for sunrise. Return back to Paiyun, eat brunch, then head down the mountain to the parking lot. It’s about a 4.5 hour drive back to Taipei, hopefully, we’ll be back by about 6pm
Included: Breakfast, brunch

Actual Itinerary

^ Same as proposed

GPX Files

Equipment / Gear

Personal Equipment:

It’s been a while so I don’t remember everything, but I had:

40L Backpack, Rain Jacket, Rain Pants, Hiking Boots (heavy), no trekking poles, knee brace, puffy jacket, headlamp,

Food

All included in the group

Finances

Billing:
I’ll send you a bill via Paypal in a few minutes. The total is $10,500NTD. You can pay by going to any ATM or a branch of Standard Chartered and using the information below. Please send me an email after you make the transfer so that I can check that it’s arrived.

Standard Chartered 渣打銀行
Bank #: 052 (Dunhua Branch 敦化分行:1141)
Acct #: 11 3200 0003 0383
(Email from Taiwan Adventure’s Neil Wade)

Lessons Learned / Thoughts

This is my first high altitude hike in Taiwan, didn’t know anything so went with a group.
Way more expensive than it needs to be, but it’s a good initial experience into hiking in Taiwan. If you go with a local group, it might be half the price.
Didn’t go up any other peaks like 前鋒西峰
Met two very cool people that I kept in touch afterwards! Roman and Sharon
Felt it in my knees on the way down, maybe trekking poles are very important.
Was wet from sweating at the peak, and it was quite cold, so temperature regulation needs to be better.
White-walled.