My Unfinished Hike

One thing Geoff and I always said we'd do before he left Daegu was do the complete hike that connects the mountains near Sangin to Apsan. It's around 11 kms total and we planned on it taking around 5 hours. We always did the first part of the trail but then cut back down passing through rice terraces on our way back to where we started.

we started on the blue trail at the bottom centre next to the lake park and

 followed it until in connects with the red trail. We then followed

it to the yellow trail in the middle, then

headed back down. Keep going left and the trail goes for another 

few kilometers and turns blue on this map for no

reason in particular.

Unfortunately time got away from us and it never happened.

Being that Saturday topped up at 26 degrees I decided to finish it. It was indeed around 5 hours not counting the 30 minute walk to and from my place and I don't mind admitting that it was intense. Anyway here are a few pics:

walking to the mountain

Lake Park with some fog (smog?)

Starting up

Dalseo-gu from about halfway up.

Mountains through the trees

Mountain again

Valley and rice terraces from about 1/3rd 

of the way up.

Same terraces but from the other side

where we never made it.

I hiked that.

and followed that near ridge.

To be honest the best part of the trail is the part we used to do. In the future I wouldn't do the last half as it runs in valleys and there is little to see or enjoy, Next time I'll go down through the rice terraces again, which is a much nicer (and shorter) hike.

Still a lot of fun and I'm glad it was finally done, even if Geoff didn't finish it with me.