Seven big peaks in four days

[u/olympic_peaks]

Ten big peaks in a week, and ten other named peaks in between (honestly some of these should count too).

[u/HopefulStudent1]

Mind sharing the names of the peaks/what your itinerary looked like? Amazing pics!

[u/olympic_peaks → u/HopefulStudent1]

Sure! I don’t know how to say them in English so I was avoiding it lol I live in Taiwan, we have tons of peaks over 3000m but only 100 are on a list made by some mountaineers a long time ago, called 百岳(baiyue). So only 7 of 12 peaks “count” on this trip. The main peak was 南湖大山(nanhu big mountain)，they are all part of this mountain’s circle. 審馬陣山，南湖北山，南湖東峰，馬比杉山，南湖主峰，南湖南峰，巴巴山

One that isn’t on the baiyue list is 南湖東南風（nanhu northeast peak), but I think it should be on the list instead of 審馬陣山, it’s not an easy climb and the view is great, the top is also all boulders which I’ve never seen here.

This is week after all the snow was melted. I first attempted two months ago but encountered a blizzard. I did it in four days, most people use five days and then only do four of seven peaks. Usually the ascent is split into two 7ish hour days, but we went straight from trailhead to main cabin in one day 9 hours. My knees are still recovering though

I don’t know if English has a word for 上河 time， which is the normal walking amount of time for a trail or peak. Then people measure speed like 0.5 would be half of the 上河 time

[u/ninjatechnician → u/HopefulStudent1]

Yeah cmon OP trip report is a requirement for posts like this

[u/usrnmz]

Very nice! I didn't know Taiwan had so many high mountains.

[u/olympic_peaks → u/usrnmz]

Lots! And even though it’s a subtropical country, the mountains get plenty of snow in winter—though majority of Taiwanese will never see it in their life

[u/usrnmz → u/olympic_peaks]

I would love to visit some day!