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Searching Lugu Fu

Posted by finndog | 7th November 2006

occurring august 12th or so 2006

I had planned on sticking to the trail ringing Lugu lake, but there isn't one, just the damn road. so there i am heading straight east away from Ku Tai Shan, "Lion Mountain" and i decide to climb up the bluff there to see if i can head along the ridge running south along the lake's east side. I do about 50 meters of free climbing, going carefully of course, three points contact at all times, and the rocks are PERFECT, just awesome, weather-pocketed and solid. I get up there and see the lake from up high, a spill of cobalt paint on a palate of unctious mountians, and i opt for east, away. So put me three days later and i'm waaaaaaaay out there who knows where trying to turn right back to the lake (i think), winding up and down these river valleys and messing about uphill, down, around, backtrack, overexert, little food, dark with no place to sleep.

the first night i'm looking for accomodation with little result besides a drunk guy offering hi

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