Location: North 22.38837, East 113.95345 (GPS on the summit)
Difficulty: YDS class 1
Climbed November 10, 2019
Information:
How to get there:
Take the West Line" of the MTR to its last station, Tuen Mun. Cross the river and find your way to the
beginning of Tsing Shan Monastery Path.
Route description:
Follow this paved road uphill. Do not go this way (left), but continue
uphill until you enter the monastery.
This is absolutely recommended
as it is both nice and interesting, no
detour at all.
Leave the monastery along the small paved road, this will connect you dierectly to a path with stairs and
a yellow handrail. Contine uphill here. However, be alert, there is a fork higher up where you
should turn righ. There is a warning sign
here, go this way. The trail
now continues uphill mostly with nice stone stair steps.
When you reach the main crest, turn left and complete
the last few steps to the summit.
Near the end there is even a short ladder to help you arrive at the
highest point. It is nice to see that the highest point is accessible
despite of the antennas. This strategy
should be adopted on many other mountains.
We decided to make the trip a bit longer by descending more north. We followed the main crest, moving past
more antennas on the left, then descending quite a bit. Care is needed as the trail has solid rocks, but also
often loose sand on top of more reliable material. You will follow this route until you arrive at
a saddle at location N22.40696, E113.95329, elevation about 185 meter.
From here, one may ascend Kon Shan or just descend back down to the
densely populated area below. You should easily find the Light Rail service there that will
bring you back to the MTR west line.
Comments:
Pål Jørgen and I left our apartment at 1000, took´the 27A to Sha Tin, then the MTR
to Hung Hom. We changed to the West line and stayed onboard until the last station Tuen Mun.
After a few minutes of city walking we were at the Tsing Shan Monestery. This is well worth a
visit and cáuses no delay to your schedule.
We left the Monestery and quickly picked up the right approach. There is this single right
fork (with a warning sign) that must be observed.
We were at the summit around 1245,
nice views
and I was happy that I this time, would reach the highest point.
Leaving around 1300, we now headed for the (key) saddle between Castle Peak and Kon Shan.
This hike took about 45 minutes and we decided to also visit Kon Shan before
returning home.
After descending from Kon Shan, we followed rhe road from the (key) saddle downhill
until it hit another road. Going right here led us fairly directly to ascend the Castle Peak
from here, a nice bonus for the trip.