Chiu Chin-shih, a Rukai person who has been actively promoting a return to Old Haucha, recalls that before the road between New Haucha and Shuimen had been opened, it took six hours to make the hike up the mountain trail, and about half that coming downhill.
積極推動重回舊好茶活動的魯凱族人邱金士回憶，在新好茶和水門之間的道路未開通前，從舊好茶出水門，行走山路上山要六個小時，下山時間則減半。