海魂三脚架

见过海军蒙眼组拆枪吗？现在我拿三脚架和相机也可以。虽然没有人家那么厉害，不过一个人时也经常这么干。习惯而已，反正我也总是自己拆装。渐渐地，它不再是繁琐的活计，而是思考的过程。

每日一瞥——纵深中国

驾车6小时纵深杭州一隅。渐渐地，山多了，幽静了。路不太好走，偶尔我会停车歇一歇。

一次下车，突然感到路上风景如画。老规矩——三脚架，咔嚓咔嚓……

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与蛇有过“亲密接触”吗

跟我说说你的故事吧！我的也许不够精彩，蛇却是货真价实。

每日一瞥—张家界遇蛇记

张家界群峰我前后爬过两次。但其实，我的腿脚压根儿不想经受这样的摧残——一次也不想。

黄昏时，我傻乎乎地爬上其中一座，想拍日落。登了顶才发现，这里拍摄效果不佳。但临顶俯瞰依然非常漂亮，遗憾只缺一张日落西山。上行的过程十分艰辛。沿山的侧面盘旋而上凿着很多小阶，还有一些往山体中所嵌的缝隙深处延伸。偶尔几处须低头弯腰才能通过，很多地方还特别容易打滑。

下山时已是漆黑一片，伸手不见五指。我的相机背带上有盏小灯——不是那种明晃晃的闪光灯（其实应该带一个来的），我就借着这点光亮往山下走。回去的路大约有4公里，四周群峰林立，只有我一人行于其间。路上一个人都碰不到，我也没指望碰上其它东西——直到我差点踩上那条蛇。

眼前的这位仁兄盘曲着粗壮的身体，正好挡在去路之上，想绕开根本没门儿。我想弄清它的目的何在，可以确信：他就想把我弄个满脸开花。

我让灯亮着，同时思考如何应付。周围树木丛生，既没石头，也没其它像样的投掷物。我倒是可以扔根燕麦卷过去，但估计人家只当开胃菜塞牙缝儿了。

我开始准备三角架，想着把这家伙从路上拨开——不行，这会儿貌似也行不通。

三角架已拉到最长，可我离得还是很远。我试想蛇的动作能有多快，同时计划了多条逃跑路线，包括利用三角架、双脚、跳跃以及逃生方向。然而所有方案都包含一个不确定（但至关重要）的变量——蛇的敏捷程度。

就在我还在设想逃生情形时，那条蛇猛一抬头，闪身窜过小路，速度之快足以赶超猎豹，我简直无法相信，就像一支离弦之箭瞬间划过。

我又等了几秒钟才继续赶路。之前的那些逃跑计划，想想都觉得好笑。

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更多中国故事

我在 Google+上更新了一片日志， 讲了许多这次中国之行的幕后故事，感兴趣的话就来看看吧！

每日一瞥——空中稻田

再次来到张家界，那么多座山峰，上上下下是在是个苦差事。我自觉体质还算不错，但在这儿也有些招架不住。

其中的一座峰顶上可以看到，前方一千多英尺的山顶上有一片孤零零的稻田，那样的美丽而古老，简直难以置信。

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学生访谈Part 2

这里奉上访谈的第二部分……

每日一瞥——立指河上

又是一次“环法”性质的旅行，一天烧了能有一万卡热量。我扛着家什在张家界的山谷里上上下下……可以算是“面面俱到”，全程走了好几回。回到家里睡得那叫一个香…我说的有点语无伦次，明白。

好像这就是那晚遇到蛇那一带。它长得又黑又恶心，郁闷！下次发这一带照片的时候再给你们讲蛇的故事。… 现在还不想琢磨！

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对不起，此内容只适用于English。

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Getting Around China

So, I don’t speak much Chinese. Actually, I speak so little that it is embarrassing. And, very few people here speak English. It’s less than 1%. So, most of the time it can be tough to get around… but I always end up getting where I want. It’s more a matter of will, charades, and international gestures that get me where I want to go. Anyway, this is often a question I get, “How do you get around without knowing the language?” It’s really not a worry… Have you read “The Alchemist”?

Daily Photo – Pandora from Avatar

Getting to this place isn’t easy, either. I wish I could tell you how tired my legs were and still are. I added about another 1/4 inch of calf muscle in the last week. Climbing these spires with all my equipment is not cake walk. I climbed to the top three times in my hikes, and my first day had about 10km of unforgettable pain. 10km is one thing. 10km that involves these kinds of verticals is another thing.

I also climbed one of these at night. Alone. That was exciting. I don’t know if exciting is quite the right word for it, but it certainly was an experience (that word said with French accent). On the way down, I ran into a big snake that would have liked nothing more than to rock my face off. I’ll have a full story on that in a later post from this area.

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