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fiveeagles



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:00 am    Post subject: Hiking South Korea Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I liked Daedunsan
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inspector gadget



Joined: 11 Apr 2003
Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jirisan
Hallasan
wolchusan
mt kaya
local ridges
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Laughing
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jlb



Joined: 18 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Songnisan...good times, quite rugged
Daedunsan for the cool ladders
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fiveeagles



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any links or pics?
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Izsak02



Joined: 29 May 2006
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=62603&highlight=Hwaseong

Pitch in.
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