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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: Hiking South Korea |
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What is the best hike you have done while you have been in South Korea?
I have gone to few great places. I live by Byeonsan National Park and have hiked in the park a few times. Amazing trails!
I have hiked Halla. Unfortunately the peak was closed when I was there.
My favorite so far has been Chirisan National Park.
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/131
Here's a list of good hikes in south Korea;
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/cgi-bin/Hiking/routes.cfm
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indytrucks

Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: |
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Some of my favourite NPs:
Chirisan ... awesome
Songnisan
Gyeryongsan
Naejangsan (especially in autumn)
... and Seorak is nice, if you avoid peak times on weekends. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Chirisan. I've got a story about that.
I'd just got here, first time in South Korea, and fresh out of seven years of tree planting in Western Canada. It was very early spring and I told the shocked looking hagwon co-workers I was going camping. I got a tarp, and some 'space blankets', and, luckily, some of those iron filing activated plastic pouch handwarmers, a bunch of them, from a mungoojom (kids' stationary store). And off I went, alone, camping.
The first night I camped at the base of a roaring waterfall because it was just so cool. It came pouring down like a faucet into a sink like a cauldron. The trail wound down to the base splashpoint and I rolled up like a pig in a blanket with my tarp. But the mist in the air from the falls insinuated into the pores of my being. It was like sleeping in micro cold mist. Rough night. Like some kind of wrong choice torture test. But ok, because the sun came up.
The trail wound up and up to the headlands, by those snakey, scenic pines poised on crags with a precipitous view. Mist, pines, valleys, highlands. Ascending broad valleys hump by hump until at the original, highest hump (hump of all humps). And I slept up there the second night, in a soldier's foxhole which was lined with stones. It was ok with the space blanket and the handwarmers activated stashed strategically about in the sleeping bag. It was actually awesome.
Because there was the sound of a giant hairdryer. An ultimate, over-arcing whoshing like a sky-sized howling banshee. It was the wind having wound up the valleys and collecting uptop to whip, curling over where I was at, looking up from my stone foxhole. And since it was a clear night the stars were like, I kid you not, high altitude stunning little points, bright prickly needles with Milky way a complicated, cluttered banner. |
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ilovebdt

Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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I liked Daedunsan |
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inspector gadget

Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Jirisan
Hallasan
wolchusan
mt kaya
local ridges |
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Homer Guest
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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Jiri san.
Saw the sunrise from the top of the mountain. It was in the late fall and no one was there. Slept in minbaks all the way.
When I got to the top to watch the sunrise, there was one old guy there too.
We talked, he was 70 years old and hiked this mountain on the same day every year to watch the sunrise as it reminded him of where he met his wife.
That made the hike something special. We chatted for a couple of hours and walked down the mountain together. |
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cwemory

Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:24 am Post subject: |
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one that deserves mention is Sogeumgang (�ұݰ�) in Odaesan National Park near Gangneung. Like its name suggest, it is a smaller version of North Korea's Geumgangsan. It has granite pinnacles, waterfalls, pools, and picturesque valley views. Most of the hikes are short, all of the hikes are hard. There is a sheter there, but as most of the hikes are short it is not that necessary. |
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Hyeon Een

Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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inspector gadget wrote: |
Jirisan
Hallasan
wolchusan
mt kaya
local ridges |
"mt kaya" ?
hmmm. Where is this?
I've been up a ���� several times and if its the same one then I'm surprised you like it. I mean it's nice enough, but it was about 40min walk from the base to the summit.. view is nice though. Can see the sea and other beautiful things. Like POSCO. |
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inspector gadget

Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hyeon Eun
mt. Kaya is around Daegu, if I recall correctly north of it. I liked the hiking there because of the cliffs and the density of the forests, both deciduoius and coniferous that were very abundant.
People may be familar with it as the site of the popular temple Haein-sa which housees Tripitaka woodblocks from way back when
Overall it was one of the best places to explore I would say. |
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just because

Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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inspector gadget wrote: |
Hyeon Eun
mt. Kaya is around Daegu, if I recall correctly north of it. I liked the hiking there because of the cliffs and the density of the forests, both deciduoius and coniferous that were very abundant.
People may be familar with it as the site of the popular temple Haein-sa which housees Tripitaka woodblocks from way back when
Overall it was one of the best places to explore I would say. |
Hate to be a know-it-all as i like gayagsan a lot as well..will be going there in 2 weeks.
It actually is to the west about 40 mins along the 88 Olympic expressway, not north of daegu |
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own_king

Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: |
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When I saw Hiking in South Korea I thought the thread was about another Korean stem cell researcher or about the Korean pitcher in the WBC that tested positive for banned substances  |
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jlb
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Songnisan...good times, quite rugged
Daedunsan for the cool ladders |
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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Any links or pics? |
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Izsak02
Joined: 29 May 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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fiveeagles wrote: |
Any links or pics? |
Just thought I'd share my hiking trips.
http://izsak02.com |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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