Life is a different Wave moving by Time and ending at Shore: Gangwondo Jeongseon Galiwangsan Mountain Hike – KFS (Korea Forest Service) Galiwangsan Recreation Center Course

1. Date and Time : Jan 28, 2019 09:00 ~16:30 (7 hours and 30 minutes including one hour break).

2. Location : Pyungchang-District and Jeongseon-District, Gangwon-do (Province) in Korea

3. Distance and Course : About 15.7km. Course is to start at KFS Galiwangsan Parking Lot => Eoeungol Junction => Mahangchi Junction => Jeongseon Galiwangsan Summit (1561m Altitude) and back to the KFS Galiwangsan Parking Lot through the same ascending course. Please see “Gangwondo Jeongseon Galiwangsan Mountain Hike Course” and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq2TLIgKOPw&feature=youtu.be

4. Overall Mountain Explanation.

Gariwangsan (Mt.) is 1,561m high, bordering Pyeongchang-gun to the northwest of Jeongseon-eup. It is one of the highest mountains among lofty ranges of mountains around. The whole mountain is composed of soil so it does not present any valleys or aesthetics of mountains but the massive mountain ranges that stretch all around and thick forests are fully displaying the features of high mountains

5. Detailed Hike Course Explanation.

I have stayed at KFS (Korea Forest Service) Recreation Center at Galiwangsan for two night in order to hike around mountains like Pyungchang Baegunsan Mountain, Jeongseon Galiwangsan Mountain and Samcheok Deokhangsan Mountain where I could reach less than one and half an hour from KFS Galiwangsan Recreation Center. As explained at my blogger dated on Jan 27, 2019 for Pyungchang Baegunsan Mountain Hike, I checked in KFS Recreation Center around 17:00 hours yesterday as soon as I came down from the Baegunsan Summit and moved to the KFS Galiwangsan Recreation Center. I slept well at the Center last night and prepared to take leave for Galiwangsan Mountain Hike as early as possible and started to move from parking lot at my house at 09:00 hours and walking through narrow road besides major valley stream for about five minutes and reached first landmark at stream stating as 5.2km to Galiwangsan Summit and crossing over the stream and ascend lower mountain ridge and faced soon rough rock road and keeping following this kinds of road and sometime crossing over the stream for about one hour and found second landmark; 4.5km to the Summit at straight which means I came there by 2.2 km from the starting point. I hardly climbed over similar somewhat inclined road for 50 minutes and reached Eoeungol Junction; 2.4km to the Summit at straight, 14.8km to Mahangchi Four-way Junction at Left and 7km to Gwangsangol at right. I continuously climbed on so highly steep road at straight and found this climbed road is different from previous inclined road and much severe, even hard taking breath. As I climbed on this road for about a quarter minutes, I met Sangseonam sitting at 1000m altitude which means best rock out of 1,000 rocks at the Galiwangsan Mountain. I found it was getting harder according to higher elevation and time by time. I spent about one on this hard road for struggling against so steep uphill road and next landmark saying as 1.7km to the Summit at straight which means I walked up there by 5 km so far. I found much snow at higher elevation a above 1200m altitude and was wondering if I should fix climbing iron or not and took my mind to go up and see and decide how and what to do. This deposited snow on the road was near to my ankle and made my climbing speed lowered. I was walking on this snowed road for more than half an hour and reached Mahangchi Junction; 800m to the Summit at right and 2.3km to Mahangchi Four-way Junction at left. I tuned right at the junction and realized hard and difficult to find correct hike course road because of snow covered on the hike course road. I so had to very carefully find hike road trace under snow and some other object like trees or stone or rocks and slowly step by step to upward and saw so unique and mysterious scenery of snow flowers on the trees and white cloud flying over this gorgeous snow flowered Summit and tried to shot so nice angle and time and succeeded to take video and photo at attached. When I climbed on this hard beautiful snow road for a quarter minutes, I met landmark standing at heliport area stating as still 500m to the Summit. I kept walking on the snow road for another quarter minutes and finally touched down 1561m Altitude Galiwangsan Mountain Summit and looked around the Summit and took several shots and decided to rush down from the Summit due to heavy and strong wind and cold. I eventually back to the KFS Galiwangsan Recreation Center after 7 hours and half an hour hiking today. It was unforgettable memory I took a chance to shot very exceptional snow flowered on the trees at the Summit area and recorded white cloud flying over the snow flowered summit on time.