Godang-bong peak, Geumjeong-san from the North gate.
The North Gate of Busan's fortress wall was my start point this Sunday with the trail heading up to Godang-bong (801m), the highest peak of Geumjeong-san.
Geumjeong-san "Golden Spring Mountain" gets it's name from the legend of Geumeol, a golden fish who descended from the world of Brahma on a five-coloured cloud to a golden pond, located on the eastern side of the peak. The temple Beomeo-sa below also gets it's name from this legend.
From Godang-bong back to the North Gate and the peaks of Ognya-bong and Uisang-bong.
Gomo-dang, on Godang-bong peak.
Near the top of Godang-bong is a shrine to Gomo, a Goddess of heaven who is said to have come down to become the spirit of Geumjeong-san mountain.
Godang-bong peak; small, rocky and popular on a Sunday.
The ridge continuing from Geumjeong-san, following the course set by the power lines, bypassing the peak of Janggun-bong to the left.
The Nakdong river below the ridge and a couple of adventurous dudes on the rocks.
The first signpost specific to the trail. (낙동정맥! heading right)
And to the left the trail to Janggun-bong.
Gyemyeong-bong peak
Beomeo-sa temple from Gyemyeong-bong below the ridge of Geumjeong-san.
The long urban river of Busan, stretching north to Nopo-dong below Gyemyeong-san.
And that may be the last view back on Busan city, the ridge now heads into rural Korea, passing through some of the most remote areas of the country on it's journey to Taebaek-san.
I'll be back on the trail June 7th for a couple of days for the walk to Habuk town.
-cheers
12 comments:
Hello. Mr Andrew Douch.
I am Mr Shin Joonhyup. We met together at Kumjong mountain and shared Korean wine together. I visited your homepage today. Thankyou for your travelling Nakdong ridge good luck to you! I will visit often this page.
What a great adventure ! Hope you can take jounrney to Nak dong ridge with all my heart. I used to trek over Kuem Jeong Mount.
Thank you both.
Mr Shin cheers for the Makali, you were right it gave me a good energy boost. I hope to return the favour some day.
andrew,
i somehow stumbled onto your blog but what a great suprise! i live in seattle and love backpacking in north cascade areas. but i always wonder about long trails (AT,Pacific etc) in Korea(my native country). I'll need to send out your site to other folks..btw how did you get started and how much planning involved? looking forward to hear back more..
hey pete
you should also take a look at the other link to this site at
www.baekdudaegan.blogspot.com
bawisansaram
keep chugging bro
watch out for those mountain pyhtons - they'll be hungry afetr their long sleep.
Hi Peter
Im glad you found my site. Korea has many long trails following the ridges which stem from the main 735km long Baekdu-daegan ridge. I walked the Baekdu-daegan last year with Roger Shepherd who has left the comments above. Our data from that trek will be put together in guidebook form some time in the future.
Enjoy the journey.
Roger, as you know im always on snake watch. It's an NZ thing.
it'll be interesting to see if there are any nakdong-jeongmaek 'obelisks' on this walk at some stage??
Yeah, Ive wondered that as well. I doubt it though as those we found on the Baekdu-daegan are all very new.
I hope im wrong though, I do like a good obelisk.
hey douch bag, you off again this weekend?
interesting.thanks for sharing..:) and nice photos.. ;)
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