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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: Korean Mountaineering League - a pretty cool looking group |
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For anyone interested in hiking, climbing and protecting Korea's mountainous areas you might be interested in this group:
http://www.kmleague.org/
It was set-up by expats in Korea and they seem pretty active and cool. Is anyone here a member? |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmm, someone replied to this thread then removed their post. Odd. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, but I don't want to spend W10,000,000 for clothes and equipment suitable for an expedition to Everest, K-2 or Mt. Vincent in Antarctica... just to take a one-hour stroll up the local 'hill'.  |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| Yeah, but I don't want to spend W10,000,000 for clothes and equipment suitable for an expedition to Everest, K-2 or Mt. Vincent in Antarctica... just to take a one-hour stroll up the local 'hill'. |
AMEN.. Koreans and their friggen Survival getups....
Korea = VERY SMALL. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Cruise Monkey and Temporary. If you looked at the KML site you'd see that this group is nothing like that. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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Sorry I kinda jumped to conclusions from what I see on the mountains I hike.. Well can't say climb, sometimes its a rough hike but thats it.. I am sure there are some people into the hardcore version.
My apologies |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| Temporary wrote: |
Sorry I kinda jumped to conclusions from what I see on the mountains I hike.. Well can't say climb, sometimes its a rough hike but thats it.. I am sure there are some people into the hardcore version.
My apologies |
Don't worry, I know how you feel sometimes. Most of the 'mountains' in Korea would be considered hills in New Zealand, and a lot of the locals do go a tad overboard with all the equipment. It's the same with the mountain bikers here. I often used to see middle-aged guys wearing all the right stuff, riding full-suspension, 10,000,000 titanium bikes along the Han river bike paths. Still, the guys are happy, they keep the bike shops going and raise awareness of biking in Seoul, but since only 25% end up on the singletrack, we have much less pressure on the trails than one might expect.
Back to KMLeague, I bet these guys know some of the more out of the way and challanging routes in Korea. |
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