Sometimes It Ain’t Worth It
Small Waterfall in Yangmingshan
Yesterday gave us a very rare sunny winter’s morning in Taipei so I decided to head to a waterfall in Yangmingshan National Park that I’d read about but never been to. After a 20-30 minute uphill walk along a road (complete with a sighting of the Google Street View car), I reached the trail head and headed in. I was only planning to do half the hike mentioned in my Yangmingshan hikng guide, being only interested in the promised waterfall. I veered right at the fork in the path like the guide book told me and according to the directions, it should have been a walk into the denser part of the valley and the waterfall. The first dilemma came when I reached a second fork that wasn’t mentioned in the hiking guide. One direction looked like it headed towards some houses on the road above, the other seemed to head toward the river valley. So I followed the likely looking path only to quickly find out that it soon ended at an abandoned and overgrown farmhouse. Backtrack time. Taking the other fork, I headed up and after another small wrong turn, found my way to the correct path.
