I think I'm going to try the Geumgang route again later this month, but I still need to re-plot my course so I can do it without needing to camp.
I also want to divide the course up into shorter segments (18-25K) so my feet don't get quite as abused. And when I arrive at the Shintanjin Station area, I'm going to include the walk from that neighborhood to the trail's starting point as part of my overall walk. That way, I won't have to worry about stupid, assholish taxi drivers. Also: since I'm doing this walk so soon after my recent failure, I'll be chronicling this latest attempt on the same walk blog. Think of this as... Kevin's Walk 10a if you will.
Re-plotting the course will be a task for this weekend.
I'll just have to watch out for those April showers.
That word—assholish. Weirdly reminds me of a French verb, assoler, which has nothing to do with assholes, but which means to organize land into parcels for crop rotation. The noun is assolement. Just another one of those uncomfortable phonetic resemblances to naughty English words, like la phoque, which doesn't mean "fuck" but does mean "seal," as in the marine mammal. Tu vois cette petite phoque-là? See that little phoque there?
To avoid backtracking, you could consider deaprting from Cheongju and walking to the head of the trail from there. In fact if you wanted to make it more of a walk you could start from where the trail splits off from the Seoul-Busan trail. One time I started.in Andong and cycled to Gunsan.
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