Yushan National Park (玉山國家公園) is located in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. With the Yushan Main Peak being the center of the entire park, the park covers an area with a vast expanse. It crosses over the four couties of Nantou, Chiayi, Kaohsiung and Hualien, covering a vast expanse of area of over 105,000 hectares. It is a typical subtropical mountainous nation park. Within the park, there are spectacular sights of peaks. Being 30 out of the Taiwan Hundred Mountains, they includeYushan Peaks and Siouguluan Mountain, Mabolashi Mountain, Dafenjian Mountain, Sinkang Mountain and Guan Mountain. Some are magnificently elegant with extensive vehemence. Others are bizarre and marvelous peaks, each with their own style. Naturally formed, such landscapes are extremely beautiful. Meannwhile, the park also covers the origin of the hydro system for the central, southern and eastern areas of Taiwan Province, making it a close relationship with the livelihood of the public at the public at the lower reaches of the river.The ground area of Yushan ranges from the elevation of 300m to 3,952m. It possesses the entire eco-system that bears the breeds luxuriant, different kinds of forest vegetation. From the lowly elevated ground, vegetation that could be seen in the order of ascending elevation are: broad leaf forest, conifer broad mixed forest, spruce fir forest, humlock fir forest, the colossal alpine fir forest, the short entangled shrub and alpine naturally grown vegetation form by the Yushan single seed juniper and Yushan Azalea/rhododendron. On the main ridge of the Central Mountain Range there are numerous spreads of dwarf bamboo plains. There are about 50 species of mammals in the park. Among therm, Formosan serow, Formosan sambar, Formosan black bear, Formosan wild boar/Sus scrofa taivanus, Formosan Reeve’s muntjac and Fomosan rock-mondy are the most precious large-sized animals within the park. Moreover within the park there is a complex bird kind of different species of about 151 species. This embraces almost all of the resident birds throughout the forests of Taiwan. Among them, the Mikado pheasant, Swinhoe’s pheasant, Formosan barwing, Steere’s Liocichla and Taiwan Yuhina are species endemic to Taiwan, Besides, according to surveying records, the park has approximately 228 species of butterfly, which takes up half of all the butterfly species in Taiwan. Reptilians consist of 18 species. Species endemic to Taiwan such as the Alishan turtle-designed snake, Sauter’s ground snake and Tree lizard are of larger quantities. There are 13 species of amphibians, among which the Formosan Salamander and Sonani’s s Salamander are remnants fauna of the Ice Age that possess an unusually high value of academic research. In the mountain streams are Varicorhinus alticorpus (Taiwan ku fish) and Hemimyzon taitungenisis, two species of the freshwater fish endemic to Taiwan. In terms of cultural and historical traces, there are the Ching Dynasty Batongguan Historic Trail, the Japnanese Occupation Era Batongguan Traversing Road and the Guanshan Traversing Road near the southern Cross-Island Provincial Highway, all of which are important historical traces. The entire park had once been the region where the Bunun aboriginal tribe lived that left behind many traces of old community sites and heart-touching evetnts of the rebellion against the Japanese government.These abundant resources of precious nature, people and culture within the park are all of the nation’s appreciation. Most importantly, this is an environment that provides people a site for direct contact with the nature, a place for spiritual leisure and revival of vitality. It is also the most excellent paradisiacal land, pure and clean to be inherited by later generations in future. (extracted from http://www.ysnp.gov.tw/)
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Yushan (Mount Jade) Day Hike
Peak bag the highest mountain (3,952 m / 12,966 ft.) in Taiwan, also one of the "Asian Triology", in one day.
Peak bag the highest mountain (3,952 m / 12,966 ft.) in Taiwan, also one of the "Asian Triology", in one day.
Difficult
13.7 mi
22.0 km
22.0 km
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Peak bag the highest mountain (3,952 m / 12,966 ft.) in Taiwan, also one of the "Asian Triology", in one day.
Community Trips
Joe Westerhof and I climbed this back in 1995. Yushan is reported to be the highest peak east of the Himalayas.
玉山主峰攻頂 (塔塔加登山口)玉山主峰 (3,952 m) 為台灣及東北亞最高峰, 主要由兩處登山口可達: 北面之東埔登山口及西面之塔塔加登山口. 塔塔加段因距離較短, 且中途有排雲山莊提供休憩, 最受遊客喜愛. 由塔塔加段攻頂者大多採二日行程, 首日由登山口出發, 中途行經孟祿亭,前峰登山口,西峰下觀景台及大峭壁,走至排雲山莊住宿休息 (8.5 km). 次日由排雲山莊出發攻頂(2.2 km), 攻頂後直接返回登山口 (10.7 km) 結束行程. 新中橫上東埔停車場與登山口間 (2.8 km), 有接駁車可搭乘. 往主峰步道距塔塔加登山口不遠處有大規模崩塌, 須小心通過. 玉山主峰前碎石坡, 常有強風, 需手握鐵索小心行進.玉山主峰二日攻頂路線 (住宿排雲山莊):
上東埔停車場 (2.8km / 60min) >>> 塔塔加鞍部登山口 (0.3km / 10 min) >>> 步道崩塌處 (1.4km / 40 min) >>> 孟祿亭 (1km / 35 min) >>>前峰登山口 (2.2km / 45 min) >>> 西峰下觀景台 (2.4km / 40 min) >>>大峭壁 (1.2km / 50 min) >>> 排雲山莊 (0.7km /...
嘉明湖位於南橫公路三叉山東側，與向陽山直線距離約7公里處，屬於台東縣海端鄉，海拔3310公尺是非常美麗的隋圓形高山湖泊，湖水長年永不乾枯。湖面長約 120 公尺，寬約 80 公尺，由於地處玉山國家公園的南端，據地質學家研究是隕石所造成的高山湖，近年來許多登山友驚嘆這高山湖似藍寶石般美麗，漸漸有人稱它為「天使的眼淚」。嘉明湖國家步道為中央山脈南二段的一部分，途經兩條百岳(向陽山及三叉山)，展望極佳，其中向陽山隔著南橫公路與關山遙遙相望。
美麗的玉山, 百看不厭, 百去不煩, 浩浩蕩蕩, 又有兩個小學的女小勇士一起登頂,更添加了此行的不凡, 玉山, 我們來了!4/1/2010 台北_水里_新中橫上東埔_宿東埔山莊4/2/2010東埔山莊_塔塔加警察小隊_玉山登山口_孟祿亭_玉山西峰下白木林平台午餐_排雲山莊4/3/2010排雲山莊_玉山南峰叉路口_玉山北峰叉路口_玉山主峰3952M
領隊：陳松義2008/12/09 宿向陽工作站2008/12/10 向陽山屋, 向陽山, 嘉明湖山屋, 三叉山, 宿嘉明湖2008/12/11 布拉克桑營地, 布拉克桑山, 布拉克桑、宿新康三叉路營地2008/12/12 連理西峰前營地, 桃源營地, 連理山, 宿新仙山前營地2008/12/13 新康山, 天空堡壘, 八通關古道, 石洞吊橋8號, 宿抱崖山屋2008/12/14 瓦拉米吊橋, 宿瓦拉米山屋2008/12/15 台30號0K道路登頂百岳 (圖資: TW67 座標系統 台灣二度分帶):2008/12/10 #16 向陽山 3,603M2008/12/10 #26 三叉山 3,496M (252789‚2577669)2008/12/11 #98 布拉克桑山3,036 M (257914‚2569949)2008/12/13 #43 新康山3331M (262886‚2579204)新康橫斷是台灣百岳重要的長天數縱走路線, 路遠而且百岳的山頭數少, 但是走來卻令我覺得回味無窮, 尤其是後面兩天下瓦拉米古道東段, 有如倒吃甘蔗, 讚!P.S.: 12/10 之軌跡因記憶體容量不足而遺失.
Yushan Chinese characters, both traditional and simplified: 玉山, pinyin Yu Shan (yù, or actually yǜ (IPA [ỳ]) ‘jade’, shan ‘mountain’; also known as Jade Mountain or Mount Yu) is the highest mountain in Taiwan and the fourth highest mountain on an island. Earlier, at the times when few Taiwanese could speak English, it was known among the expats, mostly missionaries, as Mt. Morrison, thought to have been...
Hiking the highest mountain (3952m) in Taiwan..... Yushan Chinese characters, both traditional and simplified: 玉山, pinyin Yu Shan (yù, or actually yǜ (IPA [ỳ]) ‘jade’, shan ‘mountain’; also known as Jade Mountain or Mount Yu) is the highest mountain in Taiwan and the fourth highest mountain on an island.
Earlier, at the times when few Taiwanese could speak English, it was
known among the expats, mostly missionaries, as Mt. Morrison, thought
to have been named...
八通關山海拔3404公尺，是台灣百岳之一，排名第64，因為山下八通關古道聞名，行政區劃屬於南投縣信義鄉。
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