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??? DaHeiShan: It sure is a big black mountain

October 15, 2006 at 9:36 a.m.

When a friend invited me out on a hike Saturday, I figured I was in for a lot of stair-climbing with a few photo ops near the summit. Daheishan measures 622 meters at its highest peak. I climbed Huashan mountain near Xi'an (2,160 meters, or about 7,087 feet) in August, so this sounded like cake.

Elevation aside, I really knew nothing about this miniature mountain. I vaguely remembered reading something about it on The Humanaught's blog (had I read this closer, I might have reconsidered) but basically I was going in blind, much like with Hua ...

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