Outdoor Hiking | Yandang Mountain Qilinbei ~ Shichuan Ridge ~ Wolong Valley Ridge ~ Baigang Ridge Crossing

Yandang Mountain is also known as Yanyan and Yanshan. Because there is a lake on the top of the mountain with dense reeds and grass, and many geese returning from the south stay here in autumn, so it is named Yandang. Yandang Mountain belongs to the middle-low mountains and hilly area in southeastern Zhejiang. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east. The west is low mountains and hills, and the east is connected to Yueqing Bay, which is a sea plain. Most of the mountains are spread from northeast to south-west, with an altitude of generally 500 to 600 meters. The highest peak, Baigangjian, is 1,108 meters above sea level. The altitude is more than 800 meters, mainly distributed in the central part of the geopark, from Yanhu Lake in the west to Baigangjian and Wuyanjian in the east, forming a watershed. The lithology is quartz syenite in the caldera central intrusion. The lithology is tuff and ignimbite erupted in the third and fourth phases of the Yandang Mountain volcano. Affected by transverse fractures or cleavage, they often appear as sharp peaks, elephant-shaped mountains (stones), or stone pillar mountains and V-shaped canyons composed of columnar joints. This time we went up the mountain from Lingyan, and then passed through various ridges, strange rocks and peaks, and beautiful scenery. Worthy of being the “No. 1 Mountain in the Southeast”