Highlights
- The Leaping Dragon Walk up to the view compass is a popular easy walk starting from Siu Sai Wan Promenade.
- From the view compass, the Pottinger Peak Country Trail contours the peak’s southern flank to join the Hong Kong Trail at Pottinger Gap.
- Another good path links the view compass to the main summit. Rougher variations can be linked in as desired, e.g., the sea cliffs at Cape Collinson Battery
Routes
1 summit • 26.2 km • 1,104 m gain • 5 hr 14 min
1 summit • 32.6 km • 1,522 m gain • 6 hr 38 min
1 summit • 9.2 km • 426 m gain • 4 hr 16 min
Latest summits
"Start/finish Chai Wan MTR station exit A
Interesting circular walk with lots of variety and contrasts. The degree of difficulty is up to you.
High rise urban scenery, markets and industrial activity in bustling Chai Wan
A pleasant wide new seafront - Siu Sai Wan Promenade - with views north over Junk Bay
Cape Collinson Path goes above a newly found Bronze Age Rock carving https://www.amo.gov.hk/en/monuments_121.php
Ribbon trail from the lighthouse wire mesh fence up to unnamed pt117m
Clifftop ribbon trail with coastal views leading to trig point at unnamed pt166m
Hard ‘jungle trail’ unmarked on maps descending down to Cape Collinson Battery. The start and finish of this trail are well defined by ribbons but route finding got tricky at a stream crossing in the middle - basically traverse across and ignore a few ‘dead end’ ribbon markers seeming to lead straight down the rocky stream bed. An eel sized brownish snake was in one of the water pools here and slithered off into a rock crevice. *This jungle trail can be bypassed altogether on the Leaping Dragon Walk*
Explore sea cliffs and ruined WWII coastal defences at Collinson Battery. Some ‘Via ferrata” style metal rung..." — davidb • Feb 12, 2020