砂卡礑步道 教我的事：山會贏 Skadang Trail taught me that the moutain always wins in the end
小學畢業旅行時，覺得太魯閣國家公園不好玩，老師看著沿著山壁開闢的道路教我們「人定勝天」。
I was bored when I had visited Taroko National Park in my elementary school graduation trip. My teacher taught us that Man will conquer Nature and the difficult trail was the proof.
卅年後重訪太魯閣國家公園，每個景點都覺得跟小時候記得的不一樣，每個景點的封閉路段，都比想像當中多。
And I visited Taroko National Park 30 years later. I could tell you everything was different. There’re a lot of shutdown trails as Nature strikes back.
走進砂卡礑步道，每分鐘都覺得山是活的，時而有水滴到額頭上，耳際隨時能聽到某處有裂開的聲音。
It seemed to me that Skadang Trail was alive. It dropped something like water,leaves, or little rocks through every breath I took in this trail.
You could hear all the small cracked sound from the mountain in the trail.
在可以遠眺林間的凹口停下腳步，隨即看到有小石朝步道滾動，身後穿著鮮豔涼鞋的廣東口音女子嚇得花容失色，拉著她臉色慘白的男友跑過我身旁。
I stopped at a spot I could see the trees and there’s some very tiny rocks rolled down. That sound was freaking a girl on colorful sandals behind me out that she pulled her boyfriend to run away from there as soon as possible.
砂卡礑步道上，有山的提醒，在那些滴下來的水，與滾動石頭間。
The mountain tried to remind us something with those water drops,rolling rocks and cracked sound.
你贏不了山的。
You just can’t beat the moutain.
開百貨公司、開大飯店也好，賣手機、收過路費也好，挖山做水泥養魚也罷，財大氣粗也免不了盡化塵土，吹向山邊、流向大海，經過大氣雨水循環，最終，還是回歸山海。
You could be a billionaire owned a couple of hotel, a few department stores, a telecommunication company and a cement corporation. But in the end, you will become the dust back to the earth.
電影《頂尖對決》裡，最後，克里斯多福諾蘭寫下幾句精彩的警世台詞：「你花掉大筆財富，做些可怕的事，真正可怕的事，到頭來一無所獲。」。
Christopher Nolan wrote some great lines in the end of the movie “The Prestige” : “You spent a fortune. You did terrible things. Really terrible things. And all for nothing.”.
水泥建築物能矗立千年？我懷疑，屹立萬年？不可能，終將盡化塵土，回歸自然。
It’s unlikely that any one concrete building could stand there for thousands or ten thousands of years. In the end, all goes to dust.
在砂卡礑步道還沒被山收回前，教我一件事：山會贏。
Skadang Trail taught me that the mountain always wins in the end.
註：砂卡礑步道目前僅開放步道入口至1.5K(五間屋)，原路折返；之後路段進行災修改善工程暫時封閉管制。
