There is a shelter about two-and-a-half hours by foot from the lake. But the problem for photographers is that the hours around dawn and dusk provide the most interesting changes of light. Although staying at the shelter reduces the hard labor involved in carrying equipment, groping along a mountain trail to take in the sunset or feeling one's way back to a shelter after dark is not conducive to photographic creativity.
嘉明湖附近 2.5 小時腳程處有一座避難山屋，但對攝影者而言，高山湖泊日出和日落的光影變化最吸引人，寄宿山屋雖可減少揹負裝備的辛勞，但凌晨摸黑趕路欣賞日出，或拍完黃昏景致後摸黑回山屋，都不利攝影創作。