Highlights
Routes
1 summit • 17.5 km • 480 m gain • 3 hr 30 min
1 summit • 33.2 km • 1,478 m gain • 6 hr 9 min
1 summit • 6.5 km • 212 m gain • 1 hr 20 min
1 summit • 9.7 km • 487 m gain • 4 hr 26 min
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"Che Pau Teng (with Rhino Rock) is mostly done as a short walk from Stanley. I did it at the end of a longer walk starting from Tai Tam Country Park, account here..
Stone Hill’s one of the harder ‘ticks’ on HK island due narrow, jungly trails. ‘Roughage’ can 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. Ribboning decreased after that. 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 was a ribboned ‘crossroads’ indicating faint routes north (to Lo Fu Shan via the Tiger Stream headwaters ) and south to the Ma Hang Stream, which was totally dried up after all the recent warm dry weather; 2019 being the ho..." — davidb • Jan 24, 2020