Dan's Bloggin' in Jeju

Monday, June 23, 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008

This is from a highly recommended hike in Hallasan Nat'l Park at the Eorimok entrance. This oreum, Eoseungsang, has an absolutely spectacular view of the city and of the mountain, as you can see from the picture. Its about a 1km hike and takes 1 hour round trip. The hike is set up like a nature trail, and has a completely different feel than the neighboring Eorimok trail up Hallasan. If you live in Jeju, or are visiting, check it out!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Graveyard

Friday, June 13, 2008

No-Kko-Mae (노꼬에)

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Oreum

Mt. Halla, formed through volcanic eruptions, is a shield-shaped volcano.
During the eruptions, lava, because of its low density, flew down slowly,
forming the gentle east and west slopes while the south and north ones remained
steep. A topography formed in this way is geologically referred to as an
htmllite volcano. Mt. Halla takes up the upper part of cone-shaped Jeju Special
Self-Governing Province and is 600m to 1,950m high above sea level.

Mt. Halla was formed through more than 100 volcanic eruptions.
These eruptions also formed parasitic cones or secondary volcanos called
"Oreum" in Jeju dialect. These 368 Oreums are dispersed evewhere on Jeju
Special Self-Governing Province, with Mt. Halla as their center. The
comparatively small place has the most Oreums in the world.

From: http://english.jeju.go.kr/contents/index.php?mid=060701&pno=0102

"Oreum refers to a tiny volcanic zone that contains a volcanic
cone, omnipresent at Jeju Island, excluding Paekrokdam at the peak of Hallasan.
It is a typical Jeju dialect that indicates an independent volcanic zone, made
of ejecta or a parasite volcano.

The origin of the word "Oreum" is traced to a noun, made from
the verb "mount," and it is thought to imply a small hill or slope that one can
easily climb.

Jeju Island is a volcanic one, resulting from a series of
volcanic explosions that have occurred not so long ago. The time period for Jeju
Island's geographical origin is presumed to range from 500,000 to 2 million
years ago, a relatively recent event, considering the 4.6- billion- year earth
history.

A parasite volcano is a small volcanic zone and is widespread
around the Hallasan ridges and volcanic piedmont areas, the mountain being
located at the heart of Jeju Island.

Most of the Oreums, Jeju Island's unique parasite volcanos,
were formed out of small sized sporadic volcanic explosions at the Halla
Mountain piedmont areas a few tens and thousands, or even hundreds and thousands
of years ago.

From: http://english.jeju.go.kr/contents/index.php?mid=060303

Monday, June 09, 2008

Jeong-Mul Oreum

I went out to find Geum Oreum today, but I found this one instead. There were three nice guys at the bottom, working on laying a rubber trail up the oreum. There's a spring at the bottom that people used to get water from, but its pretty gross now thanks to farm pollution.

정물오름(Jeong Mul Oreum)

The view of another oreum from the top

This poor baby...

Sunday, June 08, 2008

I've Been Hiking Oreums

On "Dragon's Eye Oreum"

Jeju Marathon

I went to the Jeju Marathon to watch my friends. I didn't run myself....not that hardcore!

Monique, Sloane, Jessica, and Vanessa came down from Mokpo to run the 10k. I met Jessica last year in Thailand and have seen her a few times since. She's from the same town in Indiana my Grandfather is from (Terre Haute)

Kat and Gretchen ran the 10k too!

Emma ran the 1/2 Marathon!

Amelie ran the Full Marathon!

Then she went climbing the next day!

This was the meal you got for running the Marathon!

Congratulations!....Kimchi and Rice Soup!

Monday, May 19, 2008

Musucheon Camping

Portaledge

Mr. Yoo had the most comfortable campsite!

Friday, May 09, 2008

Azaleas

I went to the west side of Hallasan last weekend with Joel, Amy, and their new co-worker to see the azaleas. The flowers weren't quite out at full bloom but should be great this weekend. Since there weren't many pictures of flowers to be taken, I got some pictures of some sweet t-shirts.

This guy was warm.

He gave Joel a cucumber

Climb: I want to rise higher

We love Couple's shirts in Jeju!

Dinner Party

The last couple of weekends, we've had a Friday night drinks and movie night with my 42" big screen!

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Visitors from Japan

My good friend from Alta, Utah came to visit this week! Will Springmeyer has been living in Japan teaching English the same amount of time I've been in Korea living in Jeju. He came to Jeju to visit with his two friends, Allison and Madeline. They were here for about a week and it was great having them over! They were super chill and had fun doing about everything. I talked them into renting scooters and they scoot-scooted around the island for 4 days checking out the beaches and the sights. My highlight was when Will came to La Vie to play some guitar. Wow, he's amazing!

Chillin' at my place

We went to Sunrise Peak (I went to the top for the first time!)

We also went to the top of Hallasan

There's water in the crater! I can't belive there's still snow too!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

International Bouldering Competition in Seoul

I went with Darren, John, Sam, and Christine to watch the International Bouldering Competition in Seoul. We had a great tour of Seoul and had fun watching the Comp.

We spent the day riding on the subway and walking around the different parts of town.

We met our Korean friends in Hongdae for some dinner and drinks.

Where's the Festival!??! It was moved from the lawn at City Hall to a street around the corner

The local foreign girls chatting with the girl on the left who's a famous American climber (Lisa Rands).

Technical Climbs

Match your hands on the hold to complete the problem

Friday, April 11, 2008

Spring Is Here!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Hallasan

This was taken last week, but I think its kind of nice. The snow reminds me of the mountains back home

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Hallim Harbor

I've always wanted to get some pictures at the harbor at Hallim on the western end of Jeju Island. I loved the colors of these lady's aprons. They were right in front of the boat so I couldn't get their faces, but we did talk to one of the workers who came from Bali! He was so friendly! Jeju is nice, but I can't imagine leaving Bali for Jeju!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sashimi and Soju

Yesterday, on one of Troy and I's semi-regular cruises, we ran across these local fishermen and their picnic near Samyang Beach. They were really excited to see us and gave us a taste of their freshly caught sashimi (japanese style raw fish). Unfortunately due to riding the motorcycles we couldn't partake of the soju!