Having no family or relatives on Taiwan, he spent most of his time away from work in the mountains. His close climbing companions usually had time for only a couple of climbs per year; the rest of the time, he would, at most, take an aboriginal along with him on his searches for new climbing routes.
他孤身一人在台，沒有家累牽絆，遂把工作以外的時間全耗在山上；走「名山」，他沒興趣，少數幾個能共勘深山的朋友，如丁同三家在高雄、蔡景彰住台中，每年一起上山的機會只有一、兩次。