(Note*: The "Haituo Mountain" marked in the picture in this article should be "Haituo Mountain")
Haituo Mountain is located at the junction of northern Yanqing, Beijing and Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City. It belongs to the Jundu Mountain System, and the highest peak is 2,241 meters above sea level.
In 2009, it was selected as one of China's top ten "non-famous mountains" by the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Geographic Magazine.
Haituo Mountain covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers, and the mountains as a whole run from southwest to northeast. It is a natural watershed between Beijing and Hebei.
The top of the mountain is a gentle meadow about 10 kilometers long, 500 meters wide, and about 100 meters at the narrowest point.
The three peaks on it are called Dahaituo (2241), Xiaohaituo (2198) and Sanhaituo (1854).
Haituo Mountain stretches across the north of Beijing like a large screen, becoming an important line of defense against sandstorms entering Beijing.
There are high mountains and dense forests here, and there is a well-preserved original secondary Chinese pine forest, which is the most complete natural ecosystem in the surrounding areas of Beijing.
The ridge is the boundary between Chicheng County and Beijing, Shanyin is the Dahaituo Nature Reserve, and Shanyang is the Songshan Nature Reserve.
It is a typical natural secondary broad-leaved forest in North China composed of walnut catalpa, linden, ash, elm, birch and other tree species.
The species of wild animals is also quite rich. There are 713 species of wild vascular plants and 216 species of wild vertebrates recorded in Songshan.
Above 1,800 meters above sea level is a large meadow-type plant belt, including nasturtium, day lily, palm ginseng, Burnet elm, fist ginseng, and Shandan.
The mountains on the south side are steep, and there are showers like flying in summer. It was called "Haituo Feiyu" in ancient times and is one of the eight scenic spots in Guichuan.
The vicinity of Haituo Mountain is sparsely populated, and there is only one Xidazhuangke Village and Songshan Nature Reserve Management Office in Yanqing District, Beijing to the south.
In Chicheng County, Hebei Province on the north side, there are three villages: Yanjiaping, Jiangzhuangzi and Dahaituo. There are only a few hundred people in dozens of square kilometers.
- Haituo Mountain scenery
——There are many crossing routes, green is the actual crossing route this time.
——Big, small, three Haituo
I heard about Haituo Mountain very late, and it was also because of the "Ten Unknown Mountains"——
Chive Ridge (Hunan); Chuandiding (Guangdong); Xiaowutai (Hebei); Aoshan (Shaanxi); Haituoshan (Beijing);
Wugong Mountain (Jiangxi); Jiuding Mountain (Sichuan); Xueling (Yunnan); Foding Mountain (Guizhou); Zhayana Mountain (Gansu).
To talk about the "Top Ten", even if there are more than a hundred thousand unfamous strange mountains and dangerous peaks except the three mountains and five mountains.
Since the Green Field Forum, which originated outdoors, and the organizers of the selection are both in Beijing, Haituo Mountain is more or less close to the water to make the list.
However, its vast meadow looks like a high-latitude version of Wugong Mountain; there are nasturtiums in midsummer, and the scenery is really not bad.
In Beijing, there is no need to worry about climbing mountains. Lingshan, Haituo, and the boundless wild Great Wall.
There is only one day, this time I will visit the famous Haituo Mountain first.
Because this place will be used as the venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics, Haituo Mountain has been declared completely closed.
After some inquiries, Xida Zhuangke and Yanjiaping were selected as the crossing endpoints, and the specific itinerary will be adjusted accordingly.
One day in advance, Lao Zhang and I stayed at the GreenTree Inn in the South Vegetable Garden of Yanqing District, so that we could drive to our destination the next day.
The next day, I came to the Nancaiyuan bus terminal opposite the hotel in the dark, and got on the first bus of Y33, which departed at 6 o'clock.
Apart from the two of us, the only passenger on the bus was a stout elder sister. Looking at the luggage, I guessed that we were going to climb a mountain.
The car drove very fast in the early morning, and arrived at the final station, Xidazhuangke Village, from the center of Yanqing in more than half an hour.
Lao Zhang and I got out of the car and wandered around, feeling a bit confused. Except for a few private houses, there is only one management station or outpost.
There are sentries standing guard at the intersection of the mountain in Xidazhuangke. It is several kilometers away from Yanjiaping, and there are also management stations guarding it.
The plan is not as fast as the change. It was the first time I encountered such a closed mountain situation.
At this time, the elder sister "appeared in time" and offered to drive us to Yanjiaping, and offered a price of one hundred.
I thought it was a little expensive according to the distance. At this time, Lao Zhang paid for the car and went on along Panshan Road to Yanjiaping.
The sun was rising on the road, and we arrived at Yanjiaping Village in a short while——we had crossed from Beijing to Hebei.
After getting off the bus, I saw a sentry box on the side of the road and asked my elder sister to accompany us there. The locals are easy to talk to.
Unexpectedly, the old guard would not take it seriously. He pointed to the camera on the sentry box and said that he had no choice but to let him go.
After all, the eldest sister took the money, so she helped us to make troubles, but finally the old man let go and said that as long as he can't see it, it's fine.
So the eldest sister drove us forward for a few hundred meters, put us down on the side of the road, and said that you should stay on this hillside.
The car drove away, and the hillside was covered with withered grass. It seemed that it didn't matter where it came from.
So the two of us threw ourselves into the weeds that were taller than people, regardless of the thorns and dry poles all over our heads, we rushed over with one deep foot and one shallow foot.
Gradually up the hillside, the sentry box is below. Fearing that the old man would come, he thumped for a while, so he sat down and rested in peace.
——The bottom right of the picture is the Yanjiaping checkpoint
-- sit down and rest
I ran all the way from Beijing to Yanqing, and then went to the foot of the mountain in the dark. After a lot of struggling, I finally cut the right way into the mountain.
Lao Zhang has never had any experience of climbing wild mountains before. The first time he climbed was the northern mountain thousands of miles away from home, and the first time he encountered Fengshan.
Unexpectedly, two months later, when we went to Jieli Peak and met Fengshan again, it was really a coincidence that there was another burst of turbulent drilling in the forest. . .
Once we got on the track, we started to move forward steadily. It was cloudy and overcast that day, and the sun disappeared silently after a little sunshine in the morning.
Starting from the uphill, turn to the mountainside and go all the way along the Kangzhuang Avenue on the hillside.
Looking on the right hand side of the road, the glistening water is the Guanting Reservoir in the west of Jingxi, and I am passing it on my way to Xiaowutai two years later.
Resting in the woods, they found that the water bottle was frozen. . Not only the water bottle, but Lao Zhang's iPhone is also out of service!
Fortunately, the temperature is low and the climb is not too big, so I don't feel thirsty. Lao Zhang took out two sips of hot water, and the whole veteran cadre made a pie.
Lao Zhang's physical strength is unfathomable. Regardless of the speed, it is a sense of walking and patrolling. The route was too easy for him.
Although I have never been to Wugong Mountain, but the gentle ridge and the vast saddle, I think it is similar to Haituo Mountain.
In summer, this is a camping resort for donkey friends all over the country. Green grass, golden flowers, sunrise in the sea of clouds, big pieces of meat and big bowls of wine.
——However, does it really feel good to camp like this?
——Summer Haituo Mountain Camping Grand Event
Of course, we are here in the full off-season, no green meadows and no beer. I didn't see the third person the whole time.
Although it was too late to purchase the so-called outdoor equipment, Lao Zhang listened to my various descriptions of hypothermia, and this trip can be described as fully armed.
Thick cotton coat, cotton gloves, double cotton wool trousers, hot water, some chocolate. . .
So later, although I popularized all kinds of hypothermia knowledge to Lao Zhang, in the end it was myself who almost lost temperature on the top of the mountain.
A valley on the right is the downhill road towards Xidazhuangke. Before that, however, we have to go to the summit.
Walk past a weather observation tower and hide the bag in the bushes (actually you don't have to because there was no one there that day).
Walking through a pine forest, the pine needles are like felt, and it is very elastic when you step on it. After taking a nap, I came out of the woods and saw the top of Xiaohaituo Mountain.
There is a song called "Whispers in the Pines". However, as soon as we left the pine forest, we were greeted by a hurricane from the north.
Hurricanes appear without warning, like summer rainstorms.
Fog first formed on the shaded side of the mountain, and then the thunder-like wind sounded from bottom to top. After the fog dispersed rapidly, the sound of the wind had become explosive.
I was a little confused at the time. Although I have climbed mountains in the north before, most of them are sunny and sunny. Hurricane, this is the first time I have encountered it.
Turn back to the forest and retreat? Not too reconciled, then rush to the top!
So Lao Zhang and I stood next to each other, with our headscarves covering our faces, our hats and gloves tightened, and we braved the hurricane and went up the last hill.
We reached the top! There is a stone tablet on the top of the mountain, and finally boarded Haituo Mountain (Songshan).
Just at the top of the mountain, I encountered the most terrifying hurricane in my life. The hand was exposed for a few seconds before he lost consciousness, and his face was constantly distorted and deformed.
We finished taking pictures with the fastest action. God knows if you don't hold on tightly, the phone will be blown away without a trace in an instant!
What overlooks the Quartet and points out the country. . . It doesn't exist anymore, it is impossible to stay for another second!
At this moment, the jacket on his body was like a single piece of clothing, blown by the wind and completely clinging to his body.
It may only take a minute to run down the hill of Xiaohaituo. The only thing on my mind at that time was to descend quickly and escape the hurricane.
He rushed straight to the saddle, panting heavily while watching Lao Zhang walk down from far and near without haste.
Thanks to the blessing of the all-cotton military coat, Lao Zhang does not feel cold, and the windproof and warm protection is still one inch thick and one inch strong.
But within a few seconds of Shanding taking pictures of me (my gloves can touch the screen so I don’t need to take them off), his hands can’t move anymore.
Lao Zhang was worried that his fingers would die from the cold and would require amputation. Fortunately, the wind weakened when we went down to the pass, and we soon regained consciousness.
Countless climbs to the top in the past, accompanied by the fatigue of climbing to the top, always have greater relaxation and release; accompanied by pride.
Only this time, in the state of "semi-consciousness", he was in shock for a moment, and he didn't even have time to look at the big sea in the distance.
Looking at the photos, I realized that - Haituo is higher (2241m), why the main peak became the small Haituo (2198m) we boarded?
Looking at the provincial boundaries, I think it is because Dahaituo is located in Hebei, while Xiaohaituo is located in Beijing.
This kind of situation has been seen many times in various places. Moreover, the definition standard of "main peak" is indeed not limited to the altitude.
- The thin white line is the boundary between Beijing and Hebei
Back to the shrubbery where the bag was hidden, although the wind was strong at this time, we were not affected because we hid in the saddle.
However, the cold fog was still sharp, and frost had already formed on the bag after sitting for a while. When we came, we passed the pass and started to descend the mountain.
Stepping on the knee-deep leaves, this dry environment is really prone to wildfires!
Compared with the gentle uphill road, the downhill drop is nearly 300 meters longer and the horizontal distance is shorter, so it is a steep slope.
The sneakers worn by Lao Zhang couldn’t withstand the impact of his toes, so he simply “sit on the ground and travel 80,000 miles a day” under my suggestion!
Anyone who has climbed a mountain knows this posture. Fortunately, the fallen leaves are thick and won't hurt the buttocks, at most it will cost some pants.
This road went straight down without any roundabouts, and the altitude dropped steeply, and it took a short time to walk on the mountain trail.
The terrible hurricane on the other side of the mountain could not be heard as early as entering the valley, and there were only footsteps stepping on dead leaves in the silence.
Although the ice and snow in the mountains have not melted, the fearful chill in our hearts has long since disappeared.
Asphalt road down to the foot of the mountain. We met a kind-hearted local, took his car and we quickly returned to Xida Zhuangke Village.
This is the place where the bus got off this morning. It was still the management station and the sentinels. There was still no one at the entrance of the village.
However, after completing the seven and a half hours of crossing, we are extremely relaxed at the moment.
Lao Zhang complacently took a commemorative photo in front of the management station. Then we took a bus to Yanqing and then back to downtown Beijing.
That night, I tasted the legendary "Boiled Pork" for the first time, and it tasted pretty good!
－－Record 2017.11.23 Haituo Mountain Crossing
