"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 began in 1884 plus December rainfall was only half of normal.. http..." — davidb • Jan 24, 2020