looking for mountain-hike companions in november/december

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hey there,

I’ll be setting up an exhibition in Kaohsiung and travelling through Taiwan on my bike with a tent from Nov 20-Dec 22.

I would love to go into the mountains, and to some of the more “difficult” hot springs - but going alone seems unwise, and I have no experience with the national park permit system…

===Anybody here who wants to join?===

I’m 34, media artist/molecular biologist/programmmer from germany. I will be carrying all necessary equippment for a multi-day hike on my trip (light tent, rainproof clothes, frost-proof sleeping bag, mountain boots, cooker) and some general outdoor experience, but I’m by no means a professional rock climber.
I’ll be in Kaohsiung from Nov14 - Nov 22, then I’ll be free till Nov30. I’ll be taking down the exhibits on Dec1+2, then I plan to go to Taipei by train (anybody with a sleeping place/couch there?), cycle down highway No7 + No8 to Taroko and work down my way to the south…

would be lovely to hear from you!

Felix

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Couch surfing organization is around in Taiwan
Get in touch with them

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are you in for a round the island tour? through bike, of course. I can add you to a group but most of them are Filipinos.

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thanks for the sugghestions!

@tommy525 : will do that - but do you think it’s a good place to find mountaineers?
@rohdelb: don’t care about the nationality of my fellow hikers… but it’s more of an organized bike tour that you do isn’t it? I’m happy to ride on my own - it’s more the mountain climbing/permit thing that I would like together with a few other nature enthusiasts…

anybody interested?

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Hi Felix,

we are there around same time with same interest’s. So I’ll send you a PM.

Cheers
Johannes

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Okay, I did not know yet, that I have to be for a while in this forum active, to send PM’s.
Well, I write you here:
I am going with my girlfriend from 10.12. till 30.12. to Taiwan for culture, food, bicycle tour, and most important: trekking. We take our tent with us and want to do some more difficult multi-day hikes, as we go a lot in the alps to wander, and sometimes doing Klettersteige. We have no idea yet, as we booked last week our flights :wink: Both from Nürnberg, 27-33, media as well (movies and katha is in pharmacy) :wink:
We will try to couchsurf as I like this most to get in contact with local people and did over 10 years so many good experiences.

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Have fun in the mountains!

Viel Spass in den Bergen!

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cool!

so… how shall we proceed?!

I guess some of the hot springs like Lulu don’t need a special permit that needs to be reserved in advance… but the mountain trecks mostly seem to do.

do you have anything particular in mind already?

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This guy has some really nice information on hot springs and waterfalls (including waypoints that you can download from the google map page):

http://followxiaofei.com/page/ashers-taiwan-hot-springs-and-waterfalls-map

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Hey Felix, schreib mir doch eine Nachricht an meister ton at gmx punkt de (alles zusammen geschrieben). Das vereinfacht die Sache. LG Johannes

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@bicycleguy
Yes, we travel by groups but there are times that I travel alone too :blush:
:thinking: hmm, I don’t know of such, but I can publish that to my website for free. Just send me the details and I’ll post it to my announcements page. Cheers!

info@rohdelb.com