Travel & Life

How It StartedWhen I was learning Java before, I always had a strange feeling: I could understand the syntax, and I could follow along with videos, but when it came to actually building something myself, I did not know where to start. So later I simply put a bunch of exercises and small projects ...

BackgroundHere’s how it happened. I have a habit of exporting and backing up my QQ chat history every so often. Not for any particular reason—just afraid that one day the account will be gone, and the chat history will be gone too. Previously I had always used a tool called QQFlow, written in Ele...

BackgroundIt went like this. One night I was browsing the Bilibili Game Center and noticed that some games had high ratings but low download counts. Others had average ratings but high download counts. I wondered whether there were any patterns among these data points. So I wrote this scraper. Pr...

Conclusion FirstI’ve paid a lot of tuition on buying shoes. My first pair of hiking boots was the cheapest pair from Decathlon, 199 yuan. After one trip to Qiandao Lake, my ankle was almost ruined. The second pair was “military boots” bought on Taobao, advertised as genuine leather and waterproof...

Conclusion FirstEast China K2 is much harder. They are not on the same level. The Jiuhua Mountain north-south traverse is an intermediate-to-advanced route. After finishing it, you will feel tired, but it is still acceptable. East China K2 is a top-tier sufferfest. After finishing it, you will qu...

Why Wugong MountainAfter finishing the Southern Taihang, I said I wouldn’t carry a backpack for three months. In the end, I broke my resolve after two months. It started when I came across a video of Wugong Mountain: clouds churning over alpine meadows, set to that kind of very sentimental music....

A Weekend AloneI woke up on Saturday morning, glanced at my phone, and saw it was 8:30. It was raining outside—not the kind of heavy downpour that comes in sheets, but a fine, dense drizzle that seems to go on forever once it starts. I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, wondering what to do today...

The hesitation before setting outTo be honest, I almost gave up the night before departure. The weather forecast said it would rain over the weekend, and I knew all too well how slippery the scree slopes of the South Taihang can get in the rain. But the plane tickets were already bought, the char...

The Question I’ve Been Asked“Why do you go hiking?” I’ve been asked this question many times. Colleagues ask, friends ask, family asks. They watch me leave the house on weekends with a big backpack and come back on Monday limping, and they find it very hard to understand. “Wouldn’t it be better t...

Admitting FailureI’m writing this today to record a failed hike. Not one of those stories where “it was exhausting, but I made it in the end”—I really didn’t finish. I turned back halfway. I used to think that kind of thing was embarrassing and didn’t want to talk about it. But later I realized f...