{"id":169,"date":"2013-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/post-162-on-a-foggy-mountain-top-in-korea\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:00:00","slug":"post-162-on-a-foggy-mountain-top-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/post-162-on-a-foggy-mountain-top-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-162: On a Foggy Mountain Top in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">A third attempt at video-making a part of my hike (the first two: <a style=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/10\/post-158-peering-over-the-ledge-at-geumsan-my-video.html\">post-158<\/a> and <a style=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/10\/post-157-where-three-provinces-meet-my-video.html\">post-157<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>It was a rainy and eerily-foggy October 10th. <span><\/span>When the rain let up for a while and the fog lifted, it looked like this:\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\/wmS6E5QIS3A?wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Try to imagine what it was like on this particular day&#8211;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/10\/post-162-on-a-foggy-mountain-top-in-korea.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;\">Imagine steady rain, cold, thick fog causing low visibility, and imagine your clothes wet, your body wet from rain (despite a raincoat) yet sweating. No fun. I spent a lot of time  that day trying to find  cover on the exposed ridge, mostly failing (though I succeeded in  keeping the contents of my backpack dry). Navigating the  trail was hard due to  slippery rocks. <br \/><span><\/span><br \/>By now, a general rule for hiking that I&#8217;ve learned is this: &#8220;The  harder the conditions, the better the views&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>T<span><\/span>he views over the foggy  valleys you see here are an example. Without the misery of that day&#8217;s  hike, the views would&#8217;ve been&#8230;uhh&#8230;less dramatic, or less vivid, or something. I remember reaching  this little overview area, which I think is named Sambongsan [\uc0bc\ubd09\uc0b0] or Deogyusambong [\ub355\uc720\uc0bc\ubd09]. The view hit me with the force of a bucket of ice water dumped on the head on a sizzling August day.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/u> This was along the cross-country Baekdu-Daegan Trail (\ubc31\ub450\ub300\uac04) in Korea,  which I&#8217;ve been hiking since mid-September. It was along the trail northeast of a place  called Bbae-Jae (&#8220;Bone Pass&#8221;, \ube7c\uc7ac), and east of Deogyusan National Park  (\ub355\uc720\uc0b0), and southwest of \uc18c\uc0ac\uace1\uac1c (Sosa Pass). <br \/><span><\/span>\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;\">Whoever is reading this, I hope you enjoy(ed) this video. I hope it gives a small taste of what my long hike has been like. Thanks for watching\/reading. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third attempt at video-making a part of my hike (the first two: post-158 and post-157). It was a rainy and eerily-foggy October 10th. When the rain let up for a while and the fog lifted, it looked like this: Try to imagine what it was like on this particular day&#8211; Read More Imagine steady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}