I haven't climbed a mountain for a month. This weekend's yearning for mountain climbing is at its peak. The place to go is also the only one - the Qinling watershed to see the alpine azaleas.

Alpine rhododendrons bloom on the mountains of the Qinling Mountains, and this flower is only found at an altitude of about 2 kilometers above sea level. The tree has deep roots, the branches are luxuriant, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains, the rhododendron forest of hundreds of years of age can be seen everywhere, and there is the king of the rhododendron tree for thousands of years in Wang Shunshan. The flowers are mainly pink and white, and the buds have a long gestation period, about four weeks, and the petals are lost in a week after blooming. The peak bloom is usually between the first and second week of May. This is the experience of mountain climbers, no matter how unusual the weather is, early or late flowering, the second week of May can always be seen. And this weekend is the 23rd, and the recent weather temperature in Xi'an has been cold and hot, and it has exceeded 30 degrees when it is hot. Based on this, it can be inferred that the flowering period on the mountain has long passed. But I still want to try my luck, otherwise, I will miss this year's azalea bloom. I have been on different mountains in the Qinling Mountains for five consecutive years, going to the feast of alpine rhododendrons, and I don't want to leave any regrets this year.

Luck also has to be based on science. Based on my experience in climbing mountains and appreciating rhododendrons in the past few years, I deduced that at this point in time, the location that is convenient for viewing may only be in the watershed with a relatively high altitude in the Qinling Mountains. The watershed is 30 kilometers away from the Fengyu Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, and the highest point of climbing the mountain from the east is about 2,300 meters above sea level. In the mountains, the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature. As a result, the flowering time will be a few days late.

After deciding on the route, I began to look for a suitable climbing team on the Xi'an Mountain Climbing Outdoor Online this Wednesday. After several attempts to find a team that did not cross the alpine meadows from the watershed. The only team is also a traditional route, which crosses the alpine meadow from Dongfogou to Dongpinggou. There is no good choice, so I have to apply for this team, which is better than not going. At the same time, I also made up my mind that after arriving at Dongfogou, I would find a way to go up from the watershed by myself. Because of the crossing route, the alpine meadow at the highest point is more than 100 meters lower than the summit of the watershed. I concluded that I would not see rhododendrons from the Dongfogou crossing.

When I was asking for a companion, a fellow traveler said, "There are no azaleas this week." She said it tactfully, but the content was affirmative. Her affirmation comes from her years of experience climbing mountains. I was about to say that I guess there might be something from the watershed, but I stopped. Finally, I walked with my friend Jin Zi and student Zhang Tong.

After getting on the bus near the school, the team leader said that they had only come to this route to climb the mountain last week. Last week and last week, there were a lot of teams that sent this line, all of them came to see the azaleas. This week, the flowers are gone, so there is no team to send this line. Listening to them say this, the three of us are even more determined to stand on the watershed. Still, I asked Kaneko's opinion: we won't get lost, right?

"No," she said, "we've crossed this line several times. "Very good, with this sentence from my companion, I will definitely strive to achieve it today.

So, along the way, we were looking for opportunities to tell the team leader our plans. I deliberately kept telling my companions that we had been here more than ten times. Sure enough, the team leader was 'fooled' by our words. He said, "I've only been here three times, and you're too strong."

After entering the mountain, seeing that we were about to reach Dongfogou, we had not yet made a request with the team leader, and we could not delay it any longer. I said, "Team leader, after arriving at Dongfogou, the three of us hired a car to cross through the watershed, and we joined in Dongfogou after going down the mountain."

The team leader's face was displeased when he heard this. I immediately said, "Don't worry, my companion and I have been to Taibai and Aoshan Mountain. We've crossed over a dozen times here. The reason why we didn't act with the team today is that our students together have never seen alpine azaleas. Ha ha. "I want to laugh myself when I say this, and I always talk about students every time I find a reason.

Team Leader: Then you send me a message on my phone to make sure that you are going up the mountain from the watershed. Then we meet on the meadow. I'll talk to the driver about getting you to the watershed later, and if not, you'll find a way to hire a car yourself.

"Okay, okay. "Haha. As long as we agree to let us go out of the team and hire our own car to go up. All wishes come true, a good beginning is here!

Haha, I didn't expect that from this moment on, good luck followed!

When the team arrived at the planned trailhead, the driver did not stop at Dongfogou and continued to move forward. The team leader said: After driving, then go up the mountain from Dongpinggou and stop at the entrance.

Hearing the team leader say this, my companion and I looked at each other and smiled: If the car drives to Dongpinggou, then it must reach the watershed before turning around. That is to say, we were sent directly to the place.

As a result, at the Dongpinggou mountain pass, the driver has not stopped and has been moving forward. It turned out that the driver didn't know the road and missed the intersection. Pulled a carload of people straight to the watershed. They went wrong, but they made it easier for us. Haha, what a stroke of luck.

At the watershed, after we got off the bus, they returned to Dongfogou in a large car. At this watershed, the weather is clear, the sky is blue, and there are tourists grinning and smiling at the sky and looking at the clouds. We didn't stop and went straight to the east.

There are two routes that cross the watershed. One is: watershed - Chaotianchang - alpine meadow - Dongpinggou. The other is: watershed - Chaotianchang - alpine meadow - Dongfogou.

Four months ago, I crossed the latter route with today's student Zhang. I like this route, and the location of the parking is out of the mountain. The previous route, I walked with my companion Kaneko two months ago. This route is from Dongpinggou out of the mountain, and it takes four kilometers of road to get to the parking position, but the route is shorter. Today, from the very beginning, Jin Zi said that he would take the route out of Dongpinggou.

From this side of the watershed, the mountain begins to be raised. Coupled with the altitude of more than 2,200 meters here, this is an unexpected difficulty for me who has not climbed a mountain for a month. When I started to go up the mountain, my legs were weak, my heart was beating faster, and my chest was tight. After continuing to climb for more than ten minutes, I felt extremely uncomfortable. I had to stop and rest. I told my companion that today for the first time I experienced how uncomfortable it is to climb a mountain. If you insist on climbing the mountain in this situation, you will lose all the joy of climbing.

The two companions said, "Let's climb slowly, don't be in a hurry."

After resting, we continued to ascend and saw that the mountain road was full of rhododendron petals, indicating that we had entered the alpine rhododendron forest. Looking up at the tall canopy, sure enough, there was a tree with green leaves, as if it had never bloomed on the branches.

I'm disappointed to say that we really missed the flowering period. In previous years, when the azaleas bloomed, I had never crossed through here, and I had never seen the flowers bloom here. I heard from other mountain friends that the alpine azaleas on this line are more beautiful than those on the Dongfogou side. And the purple ones.

Companion Kim: I've seen both. There is no purple on this road, it is all pink and white as it is over there.

"There's a purple one, and I see the pictures they used to take. "I say for sure.

She said, "No, I came to see it last year when it was in full bloom."

Kaneko was sure that she had never seen purple before. I'm also sure I've seen it in Shanyou's QQ space. However, whatever the outcome, it seems that we will not be able to argue today. Because I have been walking through the ancient rhododendron forest for more than ten minutes, except for the broken petals in the ground, there is not a single flower on the tree. We don't bother to look up.

I'm physically uncomfortable whenever I encounter a high level, and I'm extremely uncomfortable. I had to talk while walking, slowly moving up. Fortunately, the forest is dense here, and I always walk in the shade, and that's why I'm sweating profusely. I had to keep my head down and grit my teeth to insist. The two companions were amusing the flowers and plants on the side of the road. As we were walking slowly through the forest, we suddenly heard the joyful voice of gold say, "Ah, look, purple azaleas!"

I immediately looked at her.

Sure enough, a small tree about two meters high was full of purple azaleas! I said excitedly: we are really lucky, we really saw this year's alpine azaleas, and they are still rare and beautiful purple!

Student: This is an azalea, and if I saw it myself, I would have thought it was a sycamore or something. It's so beautiful!

Kaneko: Purple azaleas are so beautiful. It may be that the purple azaleas bloom late, so I've never seen one in the past. Ouch, it's beautiful!

I said, "The purple rhododendron trees all grow under the tall trees in the forest, and they don't have enough light, but they have plenty of water, and the flowers look thin and watery, and they bloom late. On the contrary, the pink and white rhododendron forest with towering ancient trees, with full sunlight, has large petals and early flowers.

In short, today is lucky, lucky and lucky. The purple azaleas bloom neither early nor late, as if waiting for us. From here, on the hillside, there are purple flowers blooming on the edge of the cliff, and the gorgeous flowers are very dazzling in the green! The more you go up, the more you go, and it's a little dizzying. Each flower, purple or light, large or small, does not have the exact same shape, but has the same delicateness. Therefore, it attracts our admiration from time to time, and exclaims from time to time: Ouch, come and see, this tree is blooming so beautifully!

The purple azaleas here are more purple than the ones I've seen on other hills, and the petals are small, delicate, and delicate. Just as no leaf is the same, no rhododendron is the same. The purple color of each tree is also different, dark or light, some purple is reddish, some purple is blue, but all are gorgeous and beautiful. We go in search of flowers, and we don't want to miss every tree blooming. Sometimes they go down to the edge of the cliff, sometimes they climb up. As long as each purple azalea tree can get close, everyone will cheer around the flower tree.

Our excited cheers caused the climbers behind to speed up their steps to find the sound. They also said loudly, "This is the azalea, why is it so beautiful!" This is the first time we have seen an azalea in the mountains, it is so beautiful!

Ha ha.. Ha ha... Walking in the bright dappled light and shadow of the sun through the forest, our laughter and the crisp nickname of the birds in the forest echoed happily in the forest. It felt pleasant, cozy, cozy!

As the altitude increases, there are more purple azaleas. They welcomed us like a roadside and set up a trellis above us. Standing in the forest, passing under the flowers, with a purple corolla on our heads! Oh, we are all flower fairies! so happy.......

Oh, it's so beautiful! It's so beautiful! Come and see! This time it's so beautiful that we are so excited to hold the flowers that we can only say, 'It's beautiful!' We must all have our eyes shining, watching the flowers stamping and applauding.

In front of us is a large, purple rhododendron with petals that is too beautiful to describe in words. This purple rhododendron is the most beautiful of all the purple azaleas I have ever seen! I blurted out that it is so beautiful! It is graceful and gorgeous! This is the queen of flowers!

This purple rhododendron tree, which is in the most suitable position in the forest, has the most space for light. Her flowers are plump and round but delicate, the thick purple is changing color, the petals are glowing with purple and blue, each petal seems to be the most beautiful purple in the world, the depth is appropriate, beautiful to the extreme!

At this moment, the golden sunlight sprinkled on the purple flowers of this tree, and the flowers were a little enchanting, so beautiful that we were a little breathless, and we were completely amazed by the reaction: I was overwhelmed.

A little, I said faintly: the purple of this rhododendron is a rare change of color. This purple is inherently a bit mysterious. Therefore, the flowers are abundant and at the same time a little enchanting.

Gold whispered, "Yes."

The student broke the silence for a moment and said, "The azaleas on this tree are so chic, I can't say how beautiful the purple is!"

Haha, listening to him say this, he jumped out of an atmosphere immersed in a mysterious state just now.

"yes, it's the most beautiful azalea I've ever seen. And it is the best flowering period, and the buds and petals are full of trees, which are the most beautiful. The purple rhododendrons of Taibai Mountain and Niubeiliang are all beautiful! This is my heartfelt admiration!

The purple rhododendron forest here blooms late because it grows in the forest and can't get enough light, just in time for us to catch up late (later when we met in the car, it turned out that the whole team saw azaleas, and it was a rare purple color). And this purple rhododendron is the best among flowers!

In the face of such wonderful flowers, I happily said, "I have always wanted to say something today, I haven't said it for a long time." That is, 'I am God's favorite.'" In the past, I always liked to say this, and netizens always teased me. What must be said today. "Haha, after listening to me, both companions laughed!

Laughed and moved on. There are still purple azaleas along the way, and occasionally I see a few peach-colored trees with gorgeous petals, such as shy flower girls. After seeing it, we were so happy that we laughed and laughed. It's just that then we realized that we were on the wrong path.

After a bit of panic, we retreated back to the right road, only to find that there was an obvious Y-shaped fork here. But we didn't even notice it just now. This is because our eyes are all in the middle of the forest looking for flowers.

I said: It is worth taking the wrong path today, this is God's arrangement, guiding us to see the most beautiful purple azaleas!

Ha ha......

All three laughed. I say this not only to lighten the mood, but also to feel the truth! Because the purple idolis is almost all in the wrong direction. When we go all the way up the right path and don't see a single flower for a long time, we really thank God for the arrangement!

Moving on, it began to rise again. I started to feel uncomfortable again, and my weak legs staggered at the touch of my feet. Once again, I felt that climbing a mountain was painful. Confidence began to waver again, and I wondered: Will this mountain never be able to climb again, and it seems that my high-end equipment is going to be wasted.

So, I laughed at myself and said, "It's strange! I didn't feel tired when I climbed so high when I looked at the flowers just now, but now I feel uncomfortable when I lift my legs." It's not that I have today.

Companion: Haha. Just now, all the attention was on the azalea.

Alas, if you can't walk, just eat. I still feel tired after eating. At this time, I hope that there will be more flowers to see. In fact, for more than an hour since we climbed up the main road, we saw no blooming azaleas except for the broken petals on the ground. But whenever we pass under a withered tree, we look up to the tree. The two companions probably wanted to see the pink and white azaleas, and I was all there to relax. Alas, so tired!

Whenever we don't see it, our companions will say, "Content!" We are lucky to see the rare purple azaleas!

It's not that I'm not dissatisfied, and I've thanked God from the bottom of my heart. I haven't climbed a mountain for a month, and my physical fitness can't keep up. Besides, I didn't want to hold my companion back! and my companion knew very well that they were walking behind me most of the time. In this way, walking in front and walking at my pace, there is no hurry to catch up.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, I finally climbed to the position of the launcher, the highest point of the day. Then I walked through the tall and dense arrow bamboo forest and came to Chaotianchang (Chaotianchang, as the name suggests, is a relatively flat field on the top of the mountain, without tall vegetation, an abrupt mountain tip, directly facing the sky). After walking in the forest for more than two hours, when we came to Chaotianchang at this moment, our eyes and hearts were suddenly enlightened!

Under the bright noon sun, Chaotianchang is empty and quiet, peaceful and peaceful! Every time I came here in the past winter, the cold wind here was howling, and when I stood on the top of the cliff to take pictures, I was far away from the highest point, for fear of blowing down the cliff. Today is the blue sky and white clouds, the breeze is blowing, and it is very comfortable.

When two companions were on one side of the mountainside, looking at a tree of white azaleas in bloom, I left them and stood alone happily on the top of the mountain, looking into the distance, looking at the mountains, the sea of clouds and the fairyland of the sea of clouds, and a big white cloud floating in the sky!

Haha, I'm happy when I see the clouds! It's just that today's clouds make me feel a little lost! Haha, I'm happy to see it again!

When I adjusted my posture to make a picture of a cloud in my hand for my companion to take a photo, the position of a cloud just now became a long row of white clouds, neatly blooming like waves on the mountains and in the air!

The air here is quiet, the sky is the most beautiful blue, the clouds are white, and the sun's rays are golden and transparent. Standing on the mountain, I am the highest. Dressed in sky blue, I melted into the blue sky. I am a cloud again, blooming on the top of the mountain, neither high nor low, merging with the row of holy white clouds. In the past, I was just a cloud, but today it is the perfect combination of blue sky and white clouds. Moreover, the starting point of the clouds and waves, I just opened my hands in the picture, and the tail end was far away in the blue sky. When my companion and I sat down, the clouds flew out of our arms.

It's so beautiful! In this situation, the bottom of my heart suddenly flooded with warmth, and happiness surged like a tide! I was so excited that I opened my arms and embraced the blue sky and white clouds: Thank God, I am your darling!

Then I sat down quietly and shared the beauty of heaven and earth, and tasted my happiness, my most beautiful!

At this point, the student pointed in the other direction and said, "That cloud is too strange, it keeps changing there."

I also discovered a long time ago, it was far away from the waves and white clouds, floating a light, smoky color, like a line cloud outlined by ink, and its rapidly changing posture seemed to attract our attention. Against the backdrop of the blue sky, the shape is a little unusual: it may be the cloud husband, that is, the man cloud!

Haha, it's still the white clouds that are cute!

Having laughed, we are ready to pass through the Chaotian Field and continue to cross. I had just walked a few meters ahead and saw a large patch of purple flowers! It was the alpine dwarf purple rhododendron! The dwarf rhododendron is a species of endemic plant at high altitudes. Because the altitude is too high, and the top of the mountain is windy and cold, the trees that grow are low and dehydrated, and at the same time, they also show a concentrated delicacy and tenacity! Most of the mountains will grow close to the ground, and the highest will not exceed half a meter, and the branches are as thin as Teng, and the flowers are dehydrated, revealing the beauty of loyalty and unyielding! However, I was naïve, and I cried sadly when I saw the thin and dehydrated, dried flower-like, and dwarf purple azaleas in full bloom for the first time in Aoshan, where the climate was even harsher......

What a day of great luck!

We were all excited to this small sea of flowers, happily hugging the flowers, happy only smiled!

Alpine dwarf rhododendrons, because of the extremely harsh environment, many flowers do not have a chance to bloom. Today, the dwarf purple rhododendron, which is located near the top of the mountain and in a sunny position, is not only blooming, but also in full bloom. Therefore, the half-meter-high dwarf purple azalea, the petals are large and elegant, the lilac is soft and foreign, the stamens are bright red, the purple flowers bloom beautifully, and the flowers bloom all over the slope! It is so beautiful! It is so attractive. Tempting us to squat among the flowers and let the flowers hug. At this time, the three of us smiling into flowers bloomed on the mountain like azaleas. It's so happy!haha.....

In the face of the delicate dwarf rhododendrons, I couldn't help but repeat: I was lucky today. We were hoping to pick up the spills in the rhododendron forest, but we accidentally saw purple azaleas in the forest. What surprised us even more was that there were also large blooming dwarf purple azaleas on the sky!

Two partners: yes!

I went on to say, "It seems that when you are lucky, you can do everything sooner rather than later, just right!"

The three of us said in unison: We are God's darlings!

Ha ha......

2015－5－23