Liangjiawan

[andarchen]

A new pass named Liangjiawan (C:梁家湾,E: bay of liang village) was revealed in Chinese forum after i posted kim's Daxuikou photos , i believe that kim will be interested to visit there after he comes back from hometown .

The pass was supposed at 40° 6'4.20"N 119°21'31.46"E , and pictures as following , Due to the visitor didn't introduced pictures clearly as kim did , you need some skill to figure out what this pass looks like.

[Kim]

Wow, that looks like a very nice place and a place I will have to go one day. This is really a very beautiful. I really hope that Google Earth will soon close this gap

[andarchen]

The visitor mentioned another pass named Xingxingyu(C:猩猩峪
E:pass of orangutan) at 40° 4'11.95"N 119°23'59.84"E , i guessed the scene of Xingxingyu is not beautiful as Liangjiawan , so no pictures was posted .

[andarchen]

The position of Liangjiawan is for sure now after following photo was found from Chinese forum,it locates at 40° 6'12.00"N 119°21'6.85"E. Attached kmz file is related path and fortress, pass.


The picture was captured at 40° 6'18.39"N 119°20'52.18"E and view to east , Great Wall cross river was seen .


Besides the captured positions for first five pictures in thread #1 are:
at 40° 6'2.95"N 119°21'8.15"E view to north,at east Great Wall of 40° 6'12.21"N 119°21'10.80"E view down to west,at same place standing in the tower view to northwest , and standing behind the tower view to northwest , and zoom in oppisite tower and west Great Wall , and one more picture .

Standing at 40° 6'11.83"N 119°21'6.95"E in pass of river bed to view east

[Kim]

That's great work. Hopefully we will see that next year.

[andarchen]

Beiniuding mountain (English:back of ox ,Chinese:背牛顶) is nearby Liangjiawan pass ,Mr. Sidney D. Gamble had leaded his colleagues to climb Beiniuding mountain in 1919 , you may be interesting to visit there too . Peolpe in chinese forum is gathering a team to visit there during coming holiday of chinese new year.

Mr. Sidney D. Gamble and his colleagues on the top of Beiniuding.


Sidney's team was climbing wood stairs upward to small temple on the top of Beiniuding mountain , white arrow point out cool guys .


Map from Liangjiawan village(yellow pin) to Beiniuding.Red line is GW and whte line is direction to reach Beiniuding .


Carving stone : General Qijiguang(戚继光) in Ming dynasty had been here ,Ming's local solider carved characters on stone to may general Qi long live forever. It just locates in creek beside road .


Liangjiawan pass: this picture is years ago , the road pass through Liangjiawang gate had been great improved last year .and more pictures about Liangjiawang pass had been showned on beginning of this thread .

The way from parking to camping.


Through bushs to reach GW after turn right.


Reaching GW.


The wall on GW toward Beiniuding.


Beiniuding mountain is visible in left top of picture.


A bridge of reaching below Beiniuding to be seen in middle top picture.


Wood stairs had been replaced by iron stairs.


The stairway of climbing to temple on top of Beiniuding.


Photos gallery link of Mr. Sidney D. Gamble on Beiniuding
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcolle...ing (China)%22

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by andarchen

Sidney's team was climbing wood stairs upward to small temple on the top of Beiniuding mountain , white arrow point out cool guys .

outrageous!

I think the guy at the second arrow down fell off.

Thanks ... Great post!

[Kim]

Very interesting

According to my information the temple is a Liao Dynasty Taoist temple.

The area was developed into a tourist destination in the 1980s.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by andarchen

The position of Liangjiawan is for sure now after following photo was found from Chinese forum,it locates at 40° 6'12.00"N 119°21'6.85"E. Attached kmz file is related path and fortress, pass.

I went there today and I don't believe your fortress is correct. It looks more like some wall made only for farming. There's a lot of fruit trees in that area.

[andarchen]

Originally Posted by Kim

I went there today and I don't believe your fortress is correct. It looks more like some wall made only for farming. There's a lot of fruit trees in that area.

It is the only fort i guessed without any information, i had deleted from my map after see this message .
Looking forward to see what pictures you took here .