Greg, Bruce and Nicholas
construction over the Nanshi stream 南勢溪, 8:30 AM
Greg, Jacob, Nicholas and Bruce
Bruce brings along two friends travelling from the US, and picks up Philip and Greg after 7AM in New Garden City.
From the Fushan 福山 Atayal settlement of Kalamoji 卡拉莫基 (qlang krmut) at 8:30 AM. we hike east toward Hapen 舊哈盆部落 following the Nanshixi 南勢溪 stream. We direct Nicholas and Jacob to our regular swimming beach down on the river.
There are more groups of hikers on the trail and fisherman in the river than we have ever seen before. We follow an Atayal man and his two sons down to the 露門溪 Lumen stream, just after the 4.5k mark. He says he lives in Wulai 烏來 and offers to cook us lunch but we tell him we're anxious to get going down the river. The sky is clouded over, but he assures us it won't rain. He shares some Maqaw (Atayal - 馬告) Mountain litsea 山胡椒 (mountain pepper) or 山蒼樹 Litsea cubeba corns with us which he has picked himself.
The water level is lower than it's been recently but enough to tire us out after five hours.
