Grey day on a bald mountain
13 November 2015
Hiking Fujiwaragatake in the Suzuka range near Nagoya
Its Friday the 13th. I cant quite provide a night on a bald mountain to celebrate, but I can instead go up a bald mountain on a very grey day. I s....
Long day at altitude
10 November 2015
Climbing Mount Gozaisho as a daytrip from Nagoya
Today was an excellent, long day. So long in fact that I was gone almost 12 hours. I opened google maps and scrolled around until I saw mountains.....
Mosquito mountain camera failure
7 November 2015
A day trip by train and bus to Mount Oyama
Enough of this not going up a mountain bullshit, I may still be sick sort of, but I am going anyway. I made my plan the night before, selecting my....
Rockfall
24 March 2015
Hiking Dobongsan in Bukhansan National Park
The last mountain! It was the most technically challenging, with lots of sheer rock faces to ascend with footholds and cables and opportunities to....
Yellow sand day
22 March 2015
Hiking Baegundae Bukhansan national park
Sorry to disappoint, but it is again mountain hike day. Todays hike was to Baegundae peak in the hugely popular Bukhansan national park, by far th....
Rain gone, mountain time
19 March 2015
Hiking magnificent Mudeungsan near Gwangju
I woke up excited, mountain day! I leapt out of bed and felt minor pain, in my ribs. My bed is so hard I believe I have bruised ribs whilst sleepi....
Last mountain in Busan
16 March 2015
Hiking Gudeoksan in Busan
Today is my last day in Busan, so today will be the last day of seemingly endless mountains to climb in Busan. Unfortunately, the view today is ob....
Mine zone
14 March 2015
Hiking Hwangnyeongsan in Busan
The rain is gone! This means only one thing, to the mountains!!! Yes 3 exclamation marks. Todays mountain is right in the city, which probably mea....
Great wall of Korea
12 March 2015
Hiking Geumjung in Busan
In about 1600, Korea and Japan were having one of their regular wars. To stop this, Korea decided to build a wall along the mountains that surroun....