Visiting to Dong Mao Shan at the end of 2013

Visiting to Dong Mao Shan at the end of 2013
The site of Dong Mao Shan is in Nan Tou County near to Kukuan. The heights of the mountain is 1690m and the length of the trail is 6.5km. To hike on the path covering with fallen leaves is flexible and comfortable. Parts of the trails are built by Taiwan Electric Power Company for power transmission and the workers of power plant are often up and down to make sure power supply.
Standing on the top of the mountain , a far and wide scenery of mountains and a bird's eye view of Tachiachi river and her branch Dong Mao river are great .
The Tachiachi Hydropower Plant is located at the reach between the Kukuan Reservoir and the Tienlun Dam. It had been designed by Japanese in 1941 ,due to the impact of The World War 11 finished in 1952 and developed until today.
In that hard time afterThe World War 11, Taiwanese were thankful for the efforts of all workers of power plants to provide water power and fire power far away from the darkness. Nevertheless the Tienlun power plant was the light at the end of the tunnel. When typhoon induced heavy rainfalls and floods, the workers of power plants keep to maintain the power well.
Economic development needs more and more electric power ,nuclear was a new choice to replace water and fire power until 2011 Fukushima Nuclear crisis in Japan . People is afraid of pollution, radios and refuse to work reactor and combat the towers of the power transmission.
In the Dong Mao Shan ,looking up the electric towers and on the trail which works to keep from power failure, we think of every cloud having a silver lining.
在2013年最後一天拜訪東卯山
東卯山位於南投縣谷關附近。此山高度1690公尺，步道長6.5公里。健行在這鋪滿落葉的小徑上，很有彈性又舒服。部分的山徑是台灣電力公司開闢來作電力輸送和電廠工作人員時常上上下下確保電力供給的維護道路。
站在山頂遠望附近山脈，視野遼闊，俯瞰大甲溪和它的支流東卯溪景色絶佳。
大甲溪水力發電廠坐落於谷關水庫和天輪水壩之間。在1941年時日本人計畫在此設立電廠，由於第二次世界大戰的衝擊而停工，戰後完工於1952年並運轉發展至今。
在二次大戰後的艱困年代，台灣人感激電力公司員工的努力，提供水力發電和火力發電，使台灣遠離黑暗的日子。而天輪電廠不可諱言的是黑暗盡頭的一道曙光。當颱風帶來豪雨和土石流，電力公司員工都奮不顧身去維修保持電力供給順暢。
隨著經濟的發展需要越來越多的電力，核能發電是一個替代水力發電和火力發電的新選擇，直到2011年日本福島發生核能危機，人們害怕汚染，輻射，拒絕核子反應爐的運轉，也反對輸電的電塔。
在東卯山中，仰望電塔及俯看這條作為維護免於停電的小徑，我們由衷希望事情再糟總會有一線希望。