{"id":165,"date":"2013-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/20\/post-158-peering-over-the-ledge-at-geumsan-my-video\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T00:00:00","slug":"post-158-peering-over-the-ledge-at-geumsan-my-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/20\/post-158-peering-over-the-ledge-at-geumsan-my-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-158: Peering Over the Ledge at Geumsan [My Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Like <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/10\/post-157-where-three-provinces-meet-my-video.html\">post-157,<\/a> here is another attempt at presenting, in video form, a moment in my ongoing long-distance hike. <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>From the top of (what&#8217;s left of) Mount Geumsan, near the town of Chupung Pass [\ucd94\ud48d\ub839]&#8230;..<span>I hope you enjoy:<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px;\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-auto wsite-youtube-align-center\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-container\">  <iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TpOhj8clYlg?wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Some more information about Geumsan:\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<font size=\"4\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/10\/post-158-peering-over-the-ledge-at-geumsan-my-video.html\"><strong><font color=\"#000dff\">Read More<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/font>\n<\/div>\n<div>  <!--BLOG_SUMMARY_END-->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Geumsan [\uae08\uc0b0] means &#8220;Gold Mountain&#8221;. I imagine there are a lot of &#8220;Geumsans&#8221; in Korea. <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>Looking over the &#8220;ledge&#8221; at this Geumsan was intimidating, but it was one of the few good views of the day. The trail in this region is thickly-forested, offering good walking conditions but few views.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>The town of Chupung you can see down below there straddles Chupung Pass. From the guidebook:\n<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:left;\"><p>Chupung [Pass] has long been an important crossing&#8230;connecting southeastern Korea with Seoul since the Joseon era [1400s-1800s], and probably millennia before that, because of its low unobtrusive passage. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Like many other of the mountain passes on the Baekdu-Daegan Trail, I see that Chupung was on the border between Baekjae and Silla (two Korean kingdoms of the first milennium AD) and their predecessor-states. <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>It&#8217;s hard now to imagine the centuries of simmering, &#8220;Checkpoint-Charlie&#8221;-style tensions that must have occurred at this place, a place of such high traffic. Today, the tensions are gone but the traffic remains in the form of two highways (the Korean equivalents of an &#8220;interstate highway&#8221; and a &#8220;U.S. highway&#8221;) and a railroad. There&#8217;s not much going on in town, but even here there is a 24-hour convenience store.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><em><span>[<\/span>I post this from Jeomchon city., where I am resting I rejoin the trail again on Monday] <\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like post-157, here is another attempt at presenting, in video form, a moment in my ongoing long-distance hike. From the top of (what&#8217;s left of) Mount Geumsan, near the town of Chupung Pass [\ucd94\ud48d\ub839]&#8230;..I hope you enjoy: Some more information about Geumsan: Read More Geumsan [\uae08\uc0b0] means &#8220;Gold Mountain&#8221;. 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