HangZhou [杭州]

Our first venture in to the outdoors for climbing took us to HangZhou [杭州], about 1h40mins out of Shanghai. Losang, a fellow climber, had very kindly organised our train tickets out of Shanghai (63RMB one way on the fast train, second class), as well as gathering a few other climbers to join us and figuring out where we should go. Once we got to the station we grabbed a taxi to take us to the crag, which took about 30mins and 25RMB... (the bus stop at the entrance to the hiking/climbing area suugest that the Y3 bus also goes there)

We had a short walk up a hill, which was basically a paved stone stairway, past some tea plantations until we reached a slightly wider part of a path with climbers generally loitering around. this part was a bit busy, with not so many easy climbs but they all seemed well bolted and with some decent anchors at the top. Afterwards we moved on to a more secluded area, more off the path, which was much more peaceful with nicer longer and easier climbs.

It was actually sunny and rather warm despite the fog which seemed to be covering the mountain...you could just about make out the tea bushes through the trees.

We got to the station about 6pm and tried to queue to get tickets home, at which point we were told that all the seats on all trains to Shanghai were full, however there were standing tickets on trains available. We ended up taking the last train back (a rapid which took 1h22mins from Hangzhou [杭州站] to Shanghai South Railway Station[上海南站]) .

Waiting for the train back to Shanghai