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A large huntsman spider races toward me, scrambles up my leg and disappears into my shorts. “Yikes!” I instinctively drop my shorts, as my fellow hikers gasp and then chuckle with amusement.
Elsewhere, a red-banded snake crosses the trail in front of us, a japaluras lizard lies sleeping in the trees and bats dart here and there: a nocturnal excursion isn’t for the faint of heart. We were off to a good start along section two of the 92km Taipei Grand Trail (台北大縱走), which combines numerous existing trails into a hike divided into seven sections around the Taipei Basin, but