I like to go often to Mògānshān, coz each time, colors are different. Two months ago, it was deep green everywhere, but this time landscape was an alternation of yellow and green… Autumn begun…

This time, DiabloTim brought his GPS, so we had our exact location, speed, distance and altitude.
You can see the tracks on the GoogleMap hereunder.

October session gathered girls and boys from China, France, UK, USA and Iran

And, as special guest, Keke the lonely pro-rider! 帅哥!!!

Here are the view and elevation profile for this 20km lap:

After the lunch, we went uphill by car on the road towards 莫干山风景区 (Mògānshān scenic spot), and then downhill up to 筏头乡 (Fátóu village). The first 3km are pretty dangerous downhill. You can see Steeven wounds on the pictures below… Next time, I will require that everybody wear protections (as I do…).
Then we took the car on the road towards 安吉 (ān jí), and turned left on the first road heading to 筏头乡 (Fátóu village). Arrived on the top of the mountain, we parked the car and started the best downhill track of the area! More than 25minutes going down, with heavy speed at the beginning: our peak is… 48km/h!!!


 
Here are the view and elevation profile for this downhill track:


 
 
On Sunday, we’ve driven up to 天荒坪镇 (Tiānhuāngpíng village), then to the top of the highest mountain, called 江南天池 (Jiāngnán tiānchí).

Actually, on the top, there is a huge hydroelectric reservoir, but Chinese tourist industry managed to convert it in a kind of amusement park. When you arrive there, you’ve first to pay a fee for your car parking, then to buy an entrance ticket. Inside, you can take some pictures with a minority(?) costume, seating a horse. You can also rent some tandems, and ride on the concreted way around the reservoir… Greaaaaat place!
We quickly ran away, went thru the tunnel (coz too dark to do rollerskate inside) and stopped our mini-van.
Then we get prepared for a nice downhill! Actually the landscape and scenery are great, but the road is not really smooth… It’s not asphalt, but kinda old concrete slabs…

BTW, thanks to our Technical Support Team!

Here is the elevation profile for this downhill track:

After this downhill track, we took the car up to 长龙山 (Cháng lóng shān), which is just the opposite mountain (below, you can see the reservoir on the top of the mountain).

We’ve eaten nice local Zhèjiāng food and enjoyed some non-local massager.

During a post-lunch-short-walk, we’ve also met a strange animal in the bamboo forest…

Finally, we went downhill from 长龙山 (Cháng lóng shān). The road is pretty narrow, the slope is really steep, going thru the forest, it’s really one of my favorite track!

Here are the views and elevation profile for these downhill tracks:

I’ve also edited a comparison for all the tracks we’ve done during these two days (elevation vary between 854m and 12m!):

 
 
Last but not least, I’ve made a short movie (next time we really have to prepare a better one! btw, anybody interested in filming or editing… contact me!)
[See post to watch Flash video]
 
 
Here, you will find:
Pictures Day 1 / Slideshow Day 1
Pictures Day 2 / Slideshow Day 2

And also the previous rollerskating session in Mògānshān (in August):
www.atomicskate.com/2008/09/01/rollerskating-in-moganshan

我们打算去骑山地车在溪口旁边：


和一天以后想去大雷山旁边（下面是石门的照片）：



可是星期六白天下雨了，然后在晚上吃了宁波的海鲜，让我星期天生病。。。
所以我们只周六骑自行车两个小时



所有的照片在这里。也有一个动画。

天气很好，风景漂亮和安静。。。

然后在十点钟，我们开始刷街！

莫干山的路真的适合做轮滑：有的路是平的，有的路一点下坡，有的可以做速降。而且做轮滑在竹子林里面很凉快！
一般的路，没有很多车子，但是应该当心。

我们在香格里拉山庄出发。路线是差不多二十五公里。
这里有一个地图跟我们的路线：


路线的海拔：

开始的时候，有一点厉害的下坡，所以我们教新手怎么下去

最后七公里是平的路和上去的路。不是很难。

三个小时以后我们到了我们的目的地：也是香格里拉山庄！
如此我们在那边吃中饭：照常，老板娘做饭很好吃的浙江本地菜！！！

终于，我们去禹山坞水库为游泳！

在那个水库，我们碰见一个很有名的小大流氓：

也有一个短的电影：
[See post to watch Flash video]

所有的照片和动画在这里。
 
 
词汇：
速 = sù  = speed, fast
降 = jiàng  = to come down, to descend
速降 = sù jiàng  = downhill
照常 = zhào cháng = as usual
终于 = zhōng yú = at last, in the end

The organizers of this summer’s Beijing Olympics reminded foreigners coming to China for the Games to behave, warning them that everything from protesting without permission to sleeping outdoors was banned.

The extensive list, written only in Chinese, has been put on the organizers’ official website.

So you can forget about sleeping outdoors to save a bit of money or to enjoy camping in the nature (or what it remains…).

It’s banned, in order to "maintain public hygiene and the cultured image of cities".
 
 
 

露营在中国是不好的行为

北京奥运会的组织者提醒外国人好的行为在中国该是什么。比如说，抗议在外许可或者住在外面都是禁止。

都是禁止因为要“维持公众卫生学和文明城市的形象“。
 
 
Vocabulary / 词汇:
露营 = lùyíng = camping
行为 = xíngwéi = behaviour, to behave
抗议 = kàngyì = to protest
许可 = xǔkě = licence, permission
目录 = mùlù = list
避免 = bìmiǎn = to avoid, to prevent
成功 = chénggōng = to succeed

"Au menu": pictures, track map, short movie


The complete team! Thanks to 李根木 (Lǐ Gēnmù), from Shanghai Trek store for organizing the session.

Here are some shots of the future-former-bike park.
Coz recently they’ve built new concrete road and currently working on implementing a "scenic spot"  (you know in China each mountain, hill, beach will have a tollgate with entrance fee, allowing you to visit the new-old-fashioned buddhist temple…).
So I think that in a few month it won’t be possible anymore to ride here The only solution will be maybe to get inside the park thru the rear entrance (see map below).

Here is the map:

This small hill is perfect for technical training because there are a lot of small rocks.
The crosscountry track is not so bad, except the end which is not maintained and therefore is full of bushes…
It remains the closest place from Shanghai to ride MTB. Anyway, in the future, I suggest to take the 6km long bridge up to 西山 (Xīshān) and explore the hills over there.

Finally, a short movies featuring the best riders of the session (hahaha!):
[See post to watch Flash video]

Here are all the pictures and also the slideshow.
Some more shots on MaxSHracing Team 全动上海俱乐部 website. 

We used the new section of the Subway Line 4, from Nánpǔ dàqiáo subway station (南浦大桥地铁站) up to Yíshān lù subway station (宜山路地铁站): pretty fast!
Things became more complicated when we wanted to transfer to Line 9…
我们坐地铁四号线的新的部分，从南浦大桥站到宜山路站：很快，很方便！
但是我们要换车到九号线的时候，事情变成更复杂地。。。

Actually we’ve bought a grouped ticket for Line 4 & 9, but when you arrive in Yíshān lù subway station with the Line 4, you can’t transfer to Line 3 where the bus heading to Line 9 is located…
So we had to get out Line 4 and buy new tickets just at the floor upstairs! Then, you have to climb on the Line 3 platform, walk up to the end of the platform, go down the stairs and go out to take the bus up to Line 9… Crazy…
其实我们买一张四号线和九号线的连票，但是你坐四号线，到了宜山路的时候，你不可以换车到三号线在哪里有公共汽车到九号线。。。
所以我们应该出去四号线站，去上楼然后买新的票！当时，你应该上去在三号线的月台，走路一百米，然后下去和出去为拿公共汽车到九号线。。。他吗的。。。

But our efforts repayed us: arrived in Dòngjìng subway station (洞泾地铁站), it was more impressive than in downtown:
但是我们的努力得到了回报：到了在洞泾地铁站，风景比闹区漂亮：


More than 15cm of snow and frozen ponds…
十五多公分雪和冰的池塘。。。

Some guys carrying lotus roots.
一些人携带莲花根。

It seems that they store it in the cold water of the canal. They told us that they work in the water 10 hours… Even with gloves and watertight pants you can imagine…
看起来他们储存莲花根在冰水里面。他们告诉我们她们工作十个多小时在水里。。。你可以想象， 即使带着手套和穿着防水裤。。。

Some more pics on Google Map (click on the markers) with their exact locations:
更多照片在Google Map跟它们精密的位置：

Then, we took again the line 9, up to Qībǎo old street (七宝老街). I never been there, and actually, except 2 small streets and a canal, there is nothing to do but 买东西
然后，我们又坐九号线到七宝老街。没有去过，但是其实，除了两条小路和一个运河，没有什么可以做，就是买东西

Some more pics on Google Map (click on the markers) with their exact locations:
更多照片在Google Map跟它们精密的位置：

 
 
Here are all the pictures and also the slideshow.
Photos credit: Diablotim
Corrections thanks to Oceane.
这里有所有的照片和一个动画。
照片信赖：Diablotim
纠正由于Oceane。
 
 
Vocabulary:
避开 = bì kāi = to evade
闹区 = nào qū = downtown
复杂 = fù zá = complex
回报 = huí bào = to pay back
储存 = chǔ cún = to store
位置 = wèi zhì = location

If you continue towards the West, you’ll arrive at Tàihú Lake (太湖). It seems that there are also some nice place over there to ride mountainbike (next time we’ll explore Mǎshān zhèn 马山镇).

Above: Georges’ friend, Emily, Georges, Thomas, Mei & Thomas friend.

Shanghai - WúXī is a 1hour 30minutes trip by long distance bus (Ticket: 55rmb + Extra fee for the bikes: 15rmb), or 55minutes trip by fast train (Ticket: 30rmb for fast, 26rmb for normal. Extra fee for the bikes: 0rmb).
For railway station & bus station locations, see on the map below.

Foremost, you have to ride 11.5km in the town, from the railway station up to the hill.
It was my first time in WúXī, and it seems that’s just a regular-boring-Chinese city…
Then, the easiest way to go on the top of the hill is to use the new road starting on the West part of the park (6km up to the top).
This road is perfect for rollerskating downhill!! Smooth tar & almost no cars, as it is a dead end way.

Then, you have a lot of paths going down.
Here are some pics of the downhill contest path:

And here are some pics of the path, on the North side of the park, that we’ve chosen (see the map for details). Not so bad, but at the end there are a lot of stairs…
I think that there are betters tracks elsewhere. Anyway it was funny


 
 
Here is the map with locations and all the details:

 
 
Here are the pictures and the slideshow!
As usual you can download high resolution pics thru my FTP server or thanks to the Add to cart function in the Pictures section.
 
 
More pics:
2006 WúXī downhill contest