BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mooncakes were flown to China's last roadless county, where soldiers are stationed, to celebrate the Moon Festival Friday.

"There has been snowstorm at the mountain pass, and the helicopter failed ten times to fly over it," officer Cering Tonzhubat the Medog station in Tibet told Xinhua over the phone. "I thought we might not be able to eat mooncakes this year."

The Moon Festival, or the Mid-Autumn Festival, is the 15th day of the eighth month of Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on Oct.6 this year. It is a time when families get together to eat mooncakes and enjoy the round moon.

200 boxes of mooncakes and other daily necessities were managed to fly to the station at Medog, a county at Tibet's border with India, nestled among snow-capped mountains, the last of the country's 2,100 counties to be connected by highway.

According to Cering, 12 soldiers who just finished their patrol were excited to eat the mooncakes. "There are lots of different flavors, lotus, green tea and coconut...just feel like we are home again." Enditem