Kushuigou Grand Canyon in Helan Mountain (1)

Kushuigou Grand Canyon in Helan Mountain (1)

Photography/Writing The Footsteps of Sunshine

Never understand Helan Mountain by observation and imagination.

The northern section of Helan Mountain, among the lower-altitude mountains.

There is a hidden canyon, which the locals call the Grand Canyon.

Looking from a height, it is a low and gentle hillside.

Walking into the canyon, there is Gan Kun hidden inside.

It is winding, full of twists and turns, steep and majestic, and full of weather.

Look at the sunny, sunny and warm weather.

Shouting in the group, several group friends went to the Yin Bei section of Helan Mountain.

To explore the bitter valleys and grand canyons that once filled Wujin.

Through the low slope on the hillside, you reach the mouth of the bitter ditch.

This is a large flat depression.

You can see a black spot on the hillside in the distance.

It turns out that this used to be an open-pit coal mine.

Now, mining has stopped and it has been dealt with.

You can see terraced sediments covered with loess.

The farther and higher slopes are still bare and dark.

The scars on the mountain will take thousands of years to repair.

Go on, you can see a big pit.

Presumably, it was a coal pit dug by coal in the past.

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

Like a pair of deep melancholy eyes, looking at the sky.

Dead water with nowhere to flow dissolves the elements of the mountain.

Be boiled, tortured, become bitter

Maybe this is the origin of the bitter ditch.

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

There is ice on the lake.

In spring, the ice melts and forms irregular cracks on the surface.

Like a natural picture painted by nature.

Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.

Such Jinshan Yinshan has been dug up by us humans.

Awakening and repairing at this moment is far from enough to heal the wounds of the mountains.

In the name of governance and restoration, the Helan Mountain Circle will be guarded.

This is comforting. 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 think this is going to the other extreme.

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

Green mountains and green waters do not restrict human viewing and stepping on activities.

That is a kind of mediocrity and laziness.

Green mountains and green waters, whose is Helan Mountain? ...

Turning bitter ditch after artificial treatment in loess covered area

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

Like a scar on the mountain, shocking, desolate and silent.

On the hillside, the traces of crustal movement are obvious.

Twisted and split rock fragments

Like a painful trunk, silent moaning.

Let us believe that mountains may also be conscious.

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

Look at that place carefully. It turned out to be a natural rock wall.

It should be a huge rock because of the change of geological structure.

It gradually broke and bent, forming what we see today.

In such a narrow range, such a huge rock

What forces and changes can make it bend and arrange regularly?

I believe that so far, mankind has not had such energy and means.

Go straight along the bitter ditch

Many sections are half-stone and half-coal structures.

Drought, desolation, and desolation

It is a sin for human beings to exploit and demand on such a mountain.

Shale strata formed after geological changes

It feels like a pile of books.

We call it Tian Shu Gorge figuratively.

Perhaps, there is an unknown history and world hidden in every gap.

Sitting on a natural shale.

I feel that everyone is sitting on tens of millions of wealth.

Lao Cui, the boss of a private owner

Only when you are outdoors can you smile so brightly.

Release in nature can eliminate all troubles and pressures.

In the mountains, that beautiful color.

Different directions and angles, the same thing is constantly changing.

To be sure, they are not animal fossils.

It is just a possibility and image that nature shows us.

The record of this stone lies in its rich colors.

Almost all the colors we have seen.

Changing gradients and transition colors.

It is beyond human imagination and description.

After walking seven or eight kilometers along the bitter ditch

The valley gradually narrows and the mountains on both sides rise into the sky.

It's strange that the rock walls are uneven.

Sunlight occasionally shines into the valley.

This is the famous Grand Canyon.

Continue to walk for a few hundred meters, and the canyon will suddenly open up.

Similar to a huge sinkhole, a cliff appeared at the mouth of the canyon.

After several times of observation and climbing, I couldn't get up.

See the front end of the canyon getting narrower and steeper.

It means that the canyon landscape ahead should be more magnificent.

We had to retreat along the valley to see if we could reach the top on both sides of the canyon.

Plan to start from the top and then find a place to go down into the canyon.

Return more than 200 meters along the valley and climb to the top of the valley from a gap.

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

Seemingly flat, like clods, there is no prominent peak rock.

Who would have thought that there were dried Kun hidden in its ravines.

These gray mounds are not earthy.

It is a rock structure dominated by granite and glutenite.

It is just between the shallow rocks and the soil on the weathered surface.

Sparse thatch and shrubs grow.

Try to cover and decorate Helan Mountain.

Carefully toss and turn along a wiper V-groove to the bottom of the canyon.

To explore the unknown wonders and beauty in the depths of Helan Mountain.