First of all, I returned from hiking from the sacred waterfall yesterday afternoon, it was about 16:30, and I was a little tired, if I basked in the sun on the inn bed, looked at the snowy mountains, rested, and recovered my strength. Around 17:30, upstairs for dinner, the three ordered three dishes and one soup (celery beef, tiger skin green pepper, sour and spicy potato shredded), the taste was good, looking at the snow mountain in front and drinking local black yak beer, it was very pleasant.
Yesterday's dinner
Speaking of getting up this morning, the weather is still good, go out around 7:30 to see the early morning rain avalanche, the quiet village bathed in the morning sun, in the sunshine of the golden mountain, it looks particularly beautiful.
Early morning in Shangyubang Village
The morning when the rain collapsed
The morning when the rain collapsed
Rain collapse village
Around 8:20, I had breakfast in an inn hall behind the inn (the inn we stayed in did not serve breakfast because the owner had to sleep in), the owner was a Guangxi couple, and the beef rice noodles ordered were good.
Breakfast today
After breakfast, I returned to the inn with a small bag (bring water, beef jerky), and set off from the village alone at about nine o'clock (my two companions were wandering around the village today) and walked towards the direction of the ice lake (last night I saw the introduction, about 13 kilometers round trip). Walking out of the village, you will be greeted by a white pagoda and a temple not far behind the white tower.
White Tower
temple
Walk past the monastery, behind which is an ancient forest of thorns.
Thorn Forest
Thorn Forest
Walk through the thorn forest and enter the dense primeval forest. All the way along the dirt road, there are forks in the road from time to time, but as long as you follow the direction of the path with garbage cans on the side of the road, you will not be wrong (there are garbage cans placed not far away along the way), there are not many pedestrians on the road, climbing all the way, and some sections of the road are frozen, so be careful. But like me, who grew up in the countryside, perhaps because I was tempered by doing farm work as a child, I felt that walking this kind of road was not particularly difficult, and I constantly surpassed my walking colleagues who walked in front of me along the way.
Hikers on the road
After walking about 2.5 kilometers, there was more snow on the road, and I continued to walk on the snow to Xiaonong Pass.
Over the path of the pass
Laughing at the farmer's mouth
Laughing at the farmer's mouth
After crossing the pass, it is a downhill road, and when you look up, you can see the snowy mountain - Kawakarpo in the distance, and the ice lake is at its feet.
All the way to the primeval forest
Take a closer look at Kawakarpo
Towards your goal, you will come to a post station with an observation deck. Stand on the stage and stop to look at the snowy mountains in front of you and take pictures.
Look ahead from the observation deck
After passing the post station, descending the hill, and then walking through a relatively flat path to Xiaonong Pasture, which is relatively gentle, the summer pasture of the Yuban herders, and the site of the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering base camp in 1990 and 1996. It is said that during the joint mountaineering between China and Japan, an avalanche occurred behind the ice lake, killing the climbers, and the Tibetans thought that they had angered the mountain, so the mountain, which caused the accident, and was never allowed to climb again. There are three log cabins here, maybe it is the residence of the climbers back then, I saw a Tibetan coming out of one of the rooms, and then entering it, I stepped forward, the two sides briefly greeted each other with "Tashi Dele", looked at it, there was mineral water and some simple dry food supply in the house, I bought a bottle of mineral water (10 yuan), drank a big sip and continued to walk, the online strategy said that it would take an hour to get to the ice lake.
All the way to the primeval forest
The cabin ahead is the base camp
After passing the base camp, you will head towards the goal, first through a relatively gentle path, then the slope gradually becomes steeper, and the snow covers, becoming difficult to walk. I took out the non-slip shoe chain I rented in the village last night and put it on, paired it with hiking crutches, walked much easier, and slowly climbed to the top of the mountain in front of me. Standing on the top of the mountain, the view is much wider, and then walk down one or twenty meters to reach the ice lake, there is no one around, very quiet, I didn't expect that I was the first to arrive today, look at the time, 11:40, look at the altitude, 3885 meters. Due to the low temperature, the lake is frozen and covered with a thick layer of snow. I put down my backpack, sat on a large rock next to the lake, rested for a while, then circled the frozen lake, returned to the big rock to rest, eat some beef jerky, drink some water, and replenish energy.
Non-slip shoe chain
Steep slope path
The lake is covered with snow and ice
About half an hour or so, a few young people also arrived, exchanged a few greetings, I began to walk back, walking and playing along the way, around 14:30, arrived at the inn, the round trip lasted 5 and a half hours.