Shaanxi was the province where we finally completed our entry level course in Hiking the Great Wall of China and moved up to intermediate level. Gansu and Ningxia were both pretty flat, as you’ll recall, but over the 647 kilometres we walked in Shaanxi, we ascended nearly 22,000 metres, i.e. 22 kilometres, and descended a bit more. The average gradient was nearly 7%. That’s not flat.
We were on the wall well over half the time, for 378 kilometres, but the figure doesn’t quite tell the whole story. The wall in Shaanxi isn’t in very good shape, but it does run more or less continuously from the Ningxia border to about 60 kilometres north of Yulin. Although there isn’t a lot of wall remaining in north of that point in Shaanxi, there are still beacon towers scattered along prominent ridges.
The trip totals for the three provinces completed are below the Shaanxi statistics. The Trip Log is also updated through Shaanxi, which we passed out of on February 27. We’ve had a few problems moving large files over the internet recently, so the Trip Map isn’t updated yet but it should be in a few days.
Shaanxi Province
Days in the province: 50
Days spent walking: 36
Days spent resting, sightseeing, wasting time: 14
Location at Shaanxi’s western border: 37° 43’ 31.66” N, 107° 29’ 42.66″ E
Location at Shaanxi’s eastern border: 39° 01’ 36.08” N, 111° 03’ 48.21″ E
Kilometres walked: 647.054
Average daily distance (walking days only): 17.974
Kilometres walked on the wall: 378.260
Kilometres walked off the wall: 268.794
Elevation at Shaanxi’s western border: 1333
Elevation at Shaanxi’s eastern border: 830
Maximum elevation: 1744
Minimum elevation: 820
Total ascent: 21,761
Total descent: 22,204
Average gradient: 6.795%
Trip Totals to Shaanxi’s Eastern Border
Total days: 168
Days walked: 114
Days spent resting, sightseeing, wasting time: 54
Location at trip’s beginning: 37° 21’ 58.56” N, 104° 12’ 21.45″ E
Location at Shaanxi’s eastern border:: 39° 01’ 36.08” N, 111° 03’ 48.21″ E
Kilometres walked: 2037.274
Average daily distance (walking days only): 17.871
Kilometres walked on the wall: 1102.803
Kilometres walked off the wall: 934.471
Elevation at trip’s beginning: 1735
Elevation at Shaanxi’s eastern border: 830
Maximum elevation: 2504
Minimum elevation: 820
Total ascent: 39,784
Total descent: 40,410
Average gradient: 3.936%
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