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Routes
1 summit • 27.8 km • 1,566 m gain • 6 hr 54 min
1 summit • 33.2 km • 1,478 m gain • 6 hr 9 min
1 summit • 6.2 km • 332 m gain • 5 hr 13 min
1 summit • 7.7 km • 437 m gain • 3 hr 46 min
1 summit • 8.4 km • 567 m gain • 3 hr 52 min
1 summit • 9.7 km • 487 m gain • 4 hr 26 min
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"Went up Bridge Hill again as a means of approaching Stone Hill. Stone Hill’s one of the harder ‘ticks’ on HK island with it’s narrow, jungly trails and outlier situation. As an alternative to my route ‘roughage’ could be minimised by approaching over The Twins, albeit at the cost of extra toil on the Wilson Trail steps.
Start: Tai Tam Country Park bus stop (got a number 14 bus from Sai Wan Ho MTR)
Finish: Stanley Market (for bus numbers 14, 6 etc)
Went up the slope access steps directly behind the big brown sign saying ‘Tai Tam Country Park’. Then the ribboned trail up Bridge Hill to where the path forked at a point festooned with loads of ribbons. Fewer ribbons from there on, not too many people come this way. Dropped some height off then the climb began again at a small dam on the Tiger Stream, where I noted access is possible onto a catchwater traverse path. After summitting I descended to the saddle separating Stone Hill from the Twins. Here a ribboned ‘crossroads’ indicated faint routes north (to Lo Fu Shan via the Tiger Stream headwaters ) and south to the Ma Hang Stream, bone dry after all the recent warm dry weather. 2019 was the hottest year in HK since records bega..." — davidb • Jan 24, 2020
"Tai Tam reservoir to Stanley - The Twins via minor peaks to the east.
Start point - Tai Tam Country Park bus stop (I caught a #14 bus from near Sai Wan Ho MTR)
Finish - Stanley (beaches/market/#14 bus to Sai Wan Ho or others to Central).
Not far from the bus stop go up concrete steps directly behind the “Tai Tam Country Park” sign board. These steps soon level off; turn off left when you see a steep, vegetated jungly minor trail marked by ribbons all the way to the Wilson Trail at The Twins.
Bridge Hill - maps depict the ‘summit’ at a junction of paths decorated with an abundance of ribbons. The actual high point is north of this, off on a short spur track, at the location of the ‘historic boundary stone’ depicted on some maps. See photos. No views due vegetation. Bridge Hill saw fighting with the Japanese in December 1941. Interesting story here..(scroll down and there’s picture of Bridge Hill) http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.com/2015/03/erinville-and-cashs-bungalow-at-redhill.html The driveway to Cash’s bungalow began at the bus stop where my walk starts. The Japanese had a machine gun position at Cash’s bungalow which was used to fire on British troops on Bridge Hil..." — davidb • Jan 15, 2020