The next Yepao Challenges will take place at Wildhomestay over the weekend 31st October 2026.
Also try and complete a FKT on our 18km Challenge Route during any time of year.
Yepao is a small, noncommercial open source community promoting and supporting trail running in China! We support trail restoration, organise talks and hold trail running challenges. Sign up to our Strava and WeChat groups to get notifications of upcoming events.
Challenges
What are Yepao Runs?:
Yepao supports open-sourced trail running challenges. The challenges are well planned and marked by community members with some fun segments up and down mountains, through streams, along mountain village paths on historic and wild trails.
Yepao are non-profit, low-key challenges and their goal is to help develop responsible alternative adventure running.
Summer Pools
The Pristine Pools: A Guide to the Freshest Natural Pools in the Region When we were choosing the location for…
Yepao Recap: Hickory 2024
A very nice weekend of runs through Hickory and tea plantations, through forests and up and down the local mountains…
2021 Yepao Recap
Extremely pleased this happened all considered and very lucky with the weather, air and everything else. Some serious climbs, some…
Meetups
We hold meetups in Shanghai getting the community together to discuss various topics relating to trail running and the outdoors. Many thanks to all the support from the speakers and event locations.
Trail Restoration
Develop Less. Manage More.
A common tourism model is to invest heavily in visible infrastructure — paving, platforms, landscaping and facilities. It looks impressive when completed, but requires high capital investment and creates significant long-term maintenance costs. Too often, once the initial investment ends, maintenance struggles to keep pace and the trail is forgotten.
YEPAO takes a different approach.
The landscape is already the attraction. We don’t need to rebuild it. We need to protect it.
We focus our work on:
Maintenance · Safety · Conservation · Education
Keep trails natural. Remove rubbish. Make only necessary improvements. Add minimal safety standards and signage. Tell real stories! Encourage responsible use and Leave No Trace.
Restore the condition, not the character.
Long term. Low impact. Sustainable. Authentic.
YEPAO — Natural Runs in Real Landscape.
Learn more about our trail cutting!
Who is behind it?:
It was established by a group of people who enjoy running and hiking and who get a kick out of helping and building community! Open to anyone who is able to offer a helping hand.
And many thanks to others who have helped us open up the running trails including RobinT, Darcy, Vincent, Annie, Lauren and all the others…
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