Hike

Today I went on a hike with the Beijing Hikers Club. The hike was a 6 mile loop in Pin Gu county, about a two hour drive north-west of Beijing. (Here is a Google map.) This is in the same general direction as our two trips to the Great Wall. What a change from two months ago! Then everything was bone dry and a dull brown color, and looked as if nothing would ever grow there again. Now the hills are covered with lush green vegetation, and was sparkling fresh after the recent rains.

Most of the hike was through a mixture of farmland, mainly fruit trees and small vegetable plots, and forest. At lunch time we passed through a park with a trail constructed precariously up a narrow gorge to a waterfall.