Life is a different Wave moving by Time and ending at Shore: Seasonal Upgrading and Different Songchu Course Hike to 2018-05-27-Gyeonggi Uijeongbu Sapaesan Climb in Korea

1. Date and Time : Jan 24, 2019 08:30~13:00 (4 hours 30 minutes including break one hours).

2. Location : Uijeongbu City at Gyeonggi Province in Korea.

3. Distance and Course : About 11.0km. Course is to start at Songchu Parking Lot 2 => Saemteo Junction => Sapae Junction => Heoryeong Junction => Wongaksa Junction => Sapaesan Summit (552m Altitude) => back to Songchu Parking Lot 2 . Please refer to “Gyeonggi Uijeongbu Sapaesan Hike-Songchu Course” and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwRpAEYr0w&feature=youtu.be

4. Access :

There are various ways connecting or changing to the Subway Line No.3 wherever depend on your way. Please get on the subway Line No. 3 and get off at Gupabal Subway Station and exit through Gate No. 2 and catch on local bus No. 704 at Gupabal Bus Stop and moving 28 bus stops taking about 28 minutes and get off at Pureunmaeul Apartment Bus Stop. You should walk 632m from the bus stop to Songchu Parking Lot No.2 taking about 9 minutes to Songchu Valley direction.

5. Overall Remarks.

Sapaesan Mountain Summit (552m altitude) in Gyeonggi Province is linked with Dobongsan Mountain (740 altitude) in Seoul City which is not so high altitude like Dobongsan. But when you look around mountains at the Sapaesan Summit, you should naturally realize that view or photo point at the Sapaesan Mountain Summit is one of the best which we could see so great and nice scenery of surrounding peaks at Dobongsan Mountain and Bukhansan Mountain. It is not suitable to look the Peaks on top of Dobongsan Mountain and Bukhansan due to too closed to look the overall vast peak. That means distance from the Sapaesan Summit to Dobongsan Peaks and Bukhansan peaks is a good and optimum for looking whole peaks with suitable angle. These are a main reason why people like to climb the Sapaesan Summit extending from Dobongsan Mountain.

6. Detailed Course Information

As stated above, it was a main reason why I made plan to climb over Sapaesan Mountain today and would like to climb on the Sapaesan from Songchu, West Sapaesan. I was climbing over the Sapaesan from Wondobong Information, East Sapaesan last time. It was the same course as Obong and Jawunbong Course from Songchu Parking Lot 2 to Saemteo Junction which I climbed on the Jawunbong Summit on Jan 21, 2019. As I walked on this course for about three quarter minutes, I reached the Saemteo Junction where I shall turn left and continuously going up through Songchu Valley along with valley stream. If I go straight at the junction, I will move up to Songchu Waterfall, 600m and to Obong Junction, 2.7km. I kept walking the same valley stream road for about 20 minutes and faced neat and cute and small wooden bridge crossing over the stream and felt somewhat quite and fresh beauty at the atmosphere around the bridge. I carried on waking on steeper and harder rocky road for about 10 minutes and passed next landmark stating as only 400m to Sapae Ridge which mean I climbed over there 3km from Songchu Parking. I was almost struggling so steeper and harder uphill and rocky road for some more a quarter minutes and reached Sapae Junction where I still left 1.2km to the Sapaesan Mountain Summit at left and 2.7km to Jawunbong Peak at right. I took short break at the junction and turned left and carried on walking on somewhat easy ridge road for about 40 minutes and found beautiful Hat Rock at right which looks like solder’s hat at old days. Please see at the photo. I was keeping walking on the ridge road for about a quarter minutes from the Hat Rock and finally touched down the 552m altitude Sapaesan Mountain Summit and took a so spectacular mountain and peak view at the photo and video attached. I was able to see almost all peaks or summit at Dobongsan Mountain and Bukhansan Mountain at the Sapaesan Summit. There no other point which we could see around wonderful landscape. I was starting to descend the Sapaesan as soon as I finish the photo and video and walking down for about a quarter minutes and passed Wongaksa Junction as at the photo and continuously coming down through the same way I ascended this morning after less than two hour descending from the Summit.