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Jinmianshan (金面山步道)
A trail worth the early start · Taipei, Taiwan
4.6★Rating
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Year-round, best November–March. The bare rock slabs are dangerous when wet and the exposed ridge is an oven in summer.Best time
The experience
A 2.3 km loop up a 258-metre andesite ridge in Neihu, and the most physical short hike inside the city: natural sandstone steps give way to bare rock slabs with fixed ropes and exposed tree roots. The name means gold face, for the quartz in the rock that glitters in sun. Halfway up sits the Qing-dynasty quarry that supplied the andesite for Taipei's city wall at the end of the 19th century, complete with the slope cut to slide blocks down the mountain. The summit slab, Jiandaoshi or Scissors Rock, juts out over the city for a 360-degree view; allow about three hours for the full loop.
A rope-assisted rock scramble to a cantilevered summit slab, twenty minutes from an MRT station.
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Where it is
Taipei, Taiwan · Neihu District. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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