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18Xina 09GH to Qianjin xiang 千斤乡

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Distance
19.2 mi
Elevation gain
2,917 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
4,396 ft
Max elevation
2,007 ft
TrailRank 
25
Min elevation
391 ft
Trail type
One Way
Coordinates
245
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July 7, 2019
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near Shangfusi, Hubei (China)

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Not a GPS recording. Drawn manually on a satellite map. I walked this on 2018-03-25. This is part of a walk from Wuhan(A) to Kaifeng(Y) and the Yellow River(Z). Search Wikiloc for "18Xina" and "19Xina" (etc.?) for my China walks.

Overview "18Xina 4-week walk Yangtze to Yellow 武汉开封", Wikiloc ID = 39405196
Previuos day "18Xina 08FG to Mt. Tiantai 天台山", Wikiloc ID = 38422150
Next day "18Xina 10HI to Mafan zhen 马畈镇", WIkiloc ID = 38932666

I took photos with my mobile phone, but due to technical weakness of that old device, I couldn't use GPS on my 2018 walk.
Info from photo time stamps (and my personal memory of locations):
I guess I left my acommodation at around 06h15; 6h25 keep straight ahead where road to Mt. Tiantai branches off right (visited previous afternoon); soft downhill walk on quiet road with nice views; 7h35 mill stone and other antiquities with Chinese text (2015) probably giving explanations; 7h40 palm tree; 7h50 beginning of lake; 08h30 enter renewed valley road; 08h40 cross newer river bridge; 8h50 at electric transformation station join main road; uphill 08h55 brand new Tourism Toilet; 09h35 now downhill; 10h00 village with bank and police station; uphill; 10h20 reservoir; then downhill; 10h30 here starts the most adventures 90 minutes of my 2018 China walks. Probably it is too overgrown now from the dam to the antenna. 10h30-10h40 walking up the road past abandonned buildings I see two barking dogs ahead at the dam. Luckily they only gard the dam itself and don't run down to the dry concrete basin that leads into the forested hill. 10h40-11h10 what once must have been an unpaved forest road is now overgrown, but fairly passable for walkers until a point where the original road seems to have broken down and an alternative path continues uphill, if I remember correctly (the manuall drawn track is just guesswork here). 11h25 photo where I point to a path visible uphill. 11h55 I have passed the antenna on the hilltop and walked down (100m?) to a forest road in good conditions among young tree plantations (not tea, as I believed when planning this walk with satellite photos). Nice walking and great views over the hills 12h10-12h35 break; 13h00 walking on a paved strech of road after changing between forest roads (right turn, left turn); 13h15 entering a property from the back gate. Somewhen later at a group of houses with China flag people talk to me (mother with adult sun and daugher?) and invite me to have tea with them. We sit inside - sorry for the young man who burnt his finger filling up my tea; 14h00 junction after bridge, keep right, uphill; 15h00 T-junction, raining a bit, the young people from the tea stop appear on a moto and lead me to the left; 15h50...16h00 pause; 16h20 first hauses of Quanjin; cross over river past market(?) into main road; left; 16h30 China Post; 16h35 some 宾馆hotel; I don't remember where exactly I stayed; 16h50 inside room of a hotel; 18h35 & 18h45 photos of 2 more hotels; 19h00 rice dinner in a simple restaurant where I am the last guest.

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