This route has not been walked, so there are no measured segment times on this page: the times are transcribed verbatim from Sunriver Culture's step-time diagrams and are a shared yardstick, not my pace. Every station's position and name was checked one by one and follows Sunriver's naming, so names and elevations match what hikers recognise.Route is for reference only.This route hasn't been walked yet. It's been reconstructed from the text of the itinerary — stations, times, elevations — and the line itself was calculated by BRouter along OpenStreetMap's hiking trail network. Four points worth noting:
- On Day 03, the climb to Zhongyangjian involves wading up Zhongyangjian Creek, which in practice means picking your way around rocks in the creek bed. The routing algorithm cuts out all those detours and comes up with 8.1 kilometers; the itinerary says 11.8 kilometers, and actual recorded tracks measure 11.5 kilometers — the missing 3.4 kilometers or so is the real creek-bed weaving, which the trail network simply doesn't represent. Don't use this line to estimate your pace.
- This page previously said 'Songfengling and the Shengguang Trailhead aren't on OpenStreetMap' — that was wrong. Both are there; the earlier search only filtered on
natural=* and treated 'not found' as 'doesn't exist' — Songfengling is tagged tourism=attraction (node/3507269127), and the Shengguang Trailhead is highway=trailhead (node/5628201473, named "Nanhu Dashan Shengguang Trailhead" in Chinese). Songfengling's coordinates originally came from a publicly shared record and are only 3 meters from the OSM node, so the two confirm each other. The Shengguang Trailhead station was not switched to that OSM node: that node is beside Zhongxing Road Section 1, where you park; the coordinate used on this site is on the forest road 72 meters away, where the actual walking starts, and it's also where the line began when compared against three real recorded tracks. The elevation still has a discrepancy: the DEM elevation there is 1880 meters, the itinerary says 1800 meters, and another publicly shared waypoint record puts the parking spot at 1843 meters — this site uses the itinerary's 1800. - The DEM elevation at the summit of Zhongyangjian is about 40 meters lower than reality (terrain models tend to flatten sharp peaks), so the highest point on the elevation profile looks lower than it should. The station uses OpenStreetMap's figure of 3698 meters.
- No part of this route is an actual recorded track. Actual conditions on the ground and the guide's instructions take priority over this record.
- The shape of this line was checked afterward against three public records of people who've walked this route, with a median deviation of 10 to 18 meters. That's a way of checking the answer, not a data source — neither the line nor the stations depend on those records, and their elevations were never used (GPS elevation is only a rough reference).
- On OpenStreetMap, Nanhu Creek Campground and Zhongyangjian Creek Cabin are named Nanhu Creek Hut (node/4150347016, 2209 meters) and Zhongyangjian Creek Hut (node/2482634213, 2430 meters), with coordinates matching the stations exactly; Xiangguliao corresponds to Diyi Xiangguliao (First Mushroom Shed) (node/8871262563). This site keeps the itinerary's names — the authority for day breaks and station names is the guide's itinerary, not the map data.
The switch point between full pack and summit pack is at Zhongyangjian Creek Cabin (Day 03). Zhongyangjian is the foremost of the Baiyue ‘Three Points,’ and the Zhongyangjian Creek route involves creek wading and steep scree walls — not a place to attempt on your own just from a reconstructed route.
