The most impressive cliff under Needle Hill. That feature aside, a not interesting, slightly tricky & trashed little flow stream within the jungle.
- Beauty/fun: 5/10 a really nice cliff and waterfall just after a lot of rain. Slightly messy jungle stream for the rest.
- Difficulty (check this link if new here, this is not your standard HK hiking web): 6/10 if scrambling up the easy way. Add a lot of extra points if you want to climb the cliff with no protection. Complex navigation on top. Dense vegetation. A few thorny spots.
- Map (how to download to your phone offline maps)
See full screen & Garmin track. Both include going down Seven chords stream after clockwise.
Up from Tai Wai MTR station. Concrete for quite a while partly within the woods
Concrete until you find quite some trash (sigh…) next to the stream. Time to get into it, passing next to a house. Quite slippery rocks in this area and a few high scrambles.
After a while arriving at the cliff. Pretty already from below. There is an easy way up on its left. With several ribbons guiding you in the only confusing spot. Next to that tree, you need to climb up a few meters, as JV is doing in the last pic.
And the views from atop. Impressive!
Please climbers and those canyoning 🙏 do not bolt this route! This has been climbed/abseiled for years by different groups with just the plenty of natural anchors that are around. Please keep the wishes of the first ascenders… These days there is a very easy way down/up from/to the cliff. The green line on the map. More and more people going to that area and I am worried that someone would decide to bolt it now that is significantly easier to bring all the gear… Please, don’t do it.
If you want to continue exploring the stream, the upper part becomes more and more messy the upper you go. I even found a fork, with old and newer ribbons separating. I took the right tributary with the old ones.
Very bushy, some more scrambling, but with no big issues to arrive almost at the very top of Needle Hill. Nothing especially interesting, above all dry. So I did not bring friends up there.
To be at its best this stream needs tons of rain in the previous days. Post by Wildconquerors a big flow day after a good amount of rain. The first three waterfall pics are in Heung Fan Liu, in case you want to see the difference in water levels vs our visit there on the same day. They climbed the cliff directly on the right side of the waterfall. I would do so, above all wet, only after setting a rope from above. But you do you. Fully geared fun climbs and abseils.
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