Pictures from our forest hike
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We hike with some travelers we meet in Baishuitai, climbing a steep path up a thickly forested mountain. |
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We stop for a rest in a small clearing |
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That's Zhaozhou standing and Yaoqiang sitting in front of him. |
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The trail is unrelentingly steep, but pretty. |
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There are a lot of rhododendrons growing here, just like the forest back in Washington State |
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Tall, mossy trees |
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We're now at a height of 3,800 meters (12,500 ft). There are still lots of big trees, but we can see rugged peaks rising above the treeline higher up. |
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A red fungus growing by the trail |
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This meadow is as high as we're going to hike. We stop for lunch. |
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People here live in several tiny one-room log cabins. |
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A lunch of stir-fried wild mushrooms and meat is cooked over a fire inside the log cabin |
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Since the cabins have no chimneys, the smoke from the cook-fire escapes through the cracks between the logs. |
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Two small horses in the meadow |
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