Kushuigou Grand Canyon in Helan Mountain (1)

Bitter Gully Grand Canyon in Helan Mountain (Part I)

Photographing/writing Sunshine Footsteps

Never understand Helan Mountain by observation and imagination

In the northern part of Helan Mountain, there is a canyon hidden among the mountains with low altitude

Locals call it the Grand Canyon

Standing on a high place, it is a low and gentle hillside

. Inside, however, there is a hidden Gankun

winding, winding, steep and majestic, full of weather

Looking at the sunny weather, sunny and warm

, the group shouted, and several friends * * * went to the Yinbei section of Helan Mountain

to explore the bitter ditch where Wujin was once everywhere, and the Grand Canyon

climbed the low slope on the side of the mountain. Just at the mouth of Kushuigou

This is a large flat depression

You can see a black trace on the hillside in the distance

It used to be an open-pit coal mine

Now it has stopped mining and been treated

It can be seen that a terrace-like deposit covered with loess

The hillside further and higher is still exposed with the scars of black mountains

. It will take thousands of years to repair

and move on, so we can see a huge pit

I think it is a coal pit dug by coal mining in the past

There is ice water formed by the melting of snow around the bottom of the pit

Like a deep and melancholy eye, looking at the stagnant water in the sky

, dissolving the elements of the mountain

, being boiled, suffering and becoming bitter

. This is the origin of the bitter ditch.

Near the mountain side, a huge coal pit accumulated water to form a small lake.

There was ice on the lake.

It was warm in spring and melted. Irregular cracks have formed on the surface

Like a natural picture painted by nature

Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets

The Jinshan Yinshan has been dug up by us humans

At this moment, it is far from enough to heal the trauma of the mountain

In the name of governance and restoration, Helan Mountain is surrounded and guarded

This is gratifying. I believe that Helan Mountain will become more and more beautiful after stopping mining and excavation

but it will also shut out people who set foot on Helan Mountain

I feel that this has gone to the other extreme

Setting foot on viewing is not a factor that causes environmental damage

Green mountains and green mountains do not limit human viewing activities

It is a kind of bureaucratic and lazy behavior that is banned

Green mountains and green mountains, Whose Helan Mountain is it ...

After turning over the bitter ditch covered by artificial loess

It can be seen that the weathered coal seam still exposed in the ditch

looks like a scar of a mountain, shocking, desolate and silent

On the hillside, there are obvious traces of crustal movement

The twisted and divided pieces of rock

look like a painful trunk, moaning silently < The mountain may also be conscious.

At first glance, I thought it was the outline of a kiln body piled up by human beings.

Look carefully, but a rock wall originally formed naturally should be a whole giant rock. Due to the change of geological structure,

it was gradually fractured and bent, forming what it looks like today.

What on earth is such a giant rock

in such a narrow range? In order to bend it, it can be arranged regularly.

I believe that so far, human beings have no such energy and means.

They have been moving along the bitter ditch.

Many sections are half-stone and half-coal.

They are dry, barren and full of flowers.

On such a mountain, human beings still have to mine and ask for it. It's really a sin

The shale layer formed after geological changes

feels like books piled up one by one

It's called Tianshuxia in everyone's image

Perhaps, there is a history and world unknown to us human beings hidden between every rock crack

Sitting on natural and peculiar shale

It feels that everyone is sitting on thousands of wealth

Lao Cui, Private owners and bosses

only when they are outdoors can they smile so brightly

The release of nature can dispel all worries and pressures

In the mountains, that beautiful color

Different directions and angles, the same thing is constantly changing

What is certain is that, They are not fossils of animals

but a possibility and image that nature shows us.

This rock is recorded because its rich colors

almost cover all the colors we have seen.

The varied gradient and transition colors

are beyond human imagination and description.

After seven or eight kilometers along the bitter ditch, the valley gradually narrows. The mountains on both sides are towering

the rock walls are uneven, and there are many strange things

Occasionally, sunlight penetrates into the valley

This is the famous Grand Canyon

After going on for a few hundred meters, the front of the canyon suddenly opens up

like a huge sinkhole, and a cliff appears at the mouth of the canyon

After several observations and climbs, Can't go up

Seeing that the front end of the canyon is narrower and steeper

means that the canyon landscape in front should be more magnificent

We have to retreat along the valley to see if both sides can climb to the top of the canyon

We plan to go from the top, and then find a place to go down into the canyon

Retreat more than 2 meters along the valley, climb to the top of the valley from a gap

Standing at the top of the canyon to see, The whole Helan Mountain is hilly.

It looks gentle, just like clods, and there are no prominent peaks and huge rocks.

Who wants to, but there are gray earthy hills hidden in its gullies.

, It's not the soil

but the rock structure with granite and gravel as the main body

. It's just that there are sparse thatchs and shrubs

between the shallow rocks and soils with weathered surfaces, trying hard to cover and decorate Helan Mountain

along a wiper V-shaped ditch, carefully tossing down to the bottom of the canyon

to explore the unknown wonders and beauty of Helan Mountain.