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I summited the highest peak in South Korea mainland

Jirisan is the second highest mountain in all of Korea and the highest mountain in mainland Korea, second only to Hallasan on Jeju island. On a hot summer day I brought a bunch of extra water (but would still need to buy more) on my hike up to the summit of Jirisan. 00:00 - Drone Intro 00:27 - Map Intro 02:31 - Hike Start 05:23 - Temple 05:45 - Hike Continues 06:55 - Summit 07:35 - Great Bell 08:17 - Story Time 10:18 - Photos Jirisan is the biggest and oldest national park in South Korea, it is also the highest mountain on the South Korean mainland because the taller volcano Hallasan is on Jeju island. Now, the thing about Jirisan is that the most popular way to summit the mountain is by doing the Jirisan ridge hike which starts at an easily accessible point and crosses the entire mountain range from West to East. Here’s the problem; I was working for a Hagwon and because my hagwon was using me for 3 separate companies and levels, I had no control over vacation days, and unless you were trail running through an entire day cycle, the trek would take around 3 days to complete and would require you to stay in the shelters on the mountain. I couldn’t miss work but I knew I wanted to summit the highest peak of the range. I found an alternate route that approached the peak more directly from the south but all of my map apps couldn’t figure out how to get me there. The highest peak of Jirisan is called Cheonwangbong and on a Friday in June I took the subway in Daegu to Seobu Bus terminal where I took some buses to arrive at my hotel in the city of Jinju that winds around the Nam river. I was a little nervous because the only details I could find about the bus I was going to take was from a picture of a sign posted on a blog from over a decade ago. This was the first time that I headed to the mountain on Friday and tried to summit on Saturday instead of Sunday because I knew this would be a long and tough hike and that there was a chance I wouldn’t be able to find transportation out of the area. The next morning I took the bus to a small village outside of the borders of the national park. I was pretty happy with how close I was able to get to the trailhead considering Naver couldn’t figure out how to get me here. So I did my prep and began walking the 2 and a half kilometers through the village and towards the national park that would lead to the trailhead. I still had no idea how I was going to get home but I hoped everything would work out. Well I did make it off the mountain but it was a bit crazy. It took a long time to make it back down and this wound up being my first time hiking alone at night because I couldn’t beat the sunset. I spent about 90 minutes on the trail in total darkness. Shouts out to the Korean national park rangers who met me near the end, It was a hot summer day, I mean I had gone through 6 liters of water, that’s 12 water bottles and so I was super fatigued and sore. The ranger sprayed my knees with a coolant spray, had me thinking of phantom pain, and sent me off with a Hwaiting. I made it to the national park gate and was super hungry but everything was long closed except for the 24 hour automatic vending machine where I got my coffee before the hike. So I drank 3 matcha lattes and mentally prepared myself to stay inside the vending machine for the whole night, but another woman came down from the mountain late. She knocked on someone’s door and they brought her some food and called their taxi friend to come talk to her. When the taxi arrived she started stressing out because it was going to be expensive to get to the city where hotels and things would be open. So I approached and offered to pay half of the 240,00 won about $200 to take us on the more than one hour ride to Jinju, again shouts out to the taxi driver for taking a huge trip in the middle of the night. It was expensive but I was grateful I was able to get to the city and didn’t have to try and sleep in the vending machine, I also learned the words for full moon, barum-ttal because the moon was looking gorgeous and I was trying to explain to them I was excited about the super blue moon. In Jinju, I got food and because my clothes were so soaked in sweat they were crunchy from salt, I bought a full set of the convenience store clothes that would always make me laugh but hey they came in clutch. Also big thanks to the Puradak Chicken operators who let me into the restaurant even though I was a mess and gave me a service coke because they saw I was pretty strung out. Then I turned in to my motel, ate dinner, washed up with my lil mountain bath bombs, and went home the next day. Oh also the duck dupbap I got from this restaurant by the station before leaving was insanely delicious. Hike Completed: 06/03/2023 Distance: 14.44 km Elevation Gain: 1,481 m Location: Jirisan, South Korea I summited the highest peak in South Korea mainland