Highlights
Routes
1 summit • 11.4 km • 1,067 m gain • 4 hr 46 min
1 summit • 16.0 km • 1,201 m gain • 6 hr 28 min
1 summit • 30.7 km • 1,718 m gain • 7 hr 39 min
Latest summits
"Pok To Yan is a pleasantly defined ridge, quite narrow at one point, with three summits and is traversed by a narrow trail
The middle peak is the highest and has the shattered stump of an old trig point
The eastern peak is home to a newer, less damaged, trig point
The western peak is vegetated with no summit feature
Start (and intended finish) Tung Chung MTR exit D
Actual finish Pak Kung Au bus stop on Tung Chung Road (for regular #11 and 3M buses to Tung Chung MTR or Mui Wo Ferry) http://www.i-busnet.com/english/info/lantau/list.htm
Enticed (duped!) by a dry bright weather forecast I’d planned a hefty clockwise horseshoe circuit of Sunset Peak including sidetracks to all the subsidiary peaks. Woke up in the morning to extensive cloud and drizzle, but not to worry, the revised forecast* was for a little rain clearing through by midday replaced by fine weather, so off I went up HKs 3rd highest peak. Initially all went to plan up Por Kai Shan and Pok To Yan in warm dry conditions. The HK haze was burning off and a cap of benign cloud on Lantau’s highest peaks seemed to be breaking up:) In the event however the expected afternoon improvement didn’t materialise, rather eve..." — davidb • Feb 11, 2020