South Korea Bouldering

If you look past Paul on the rigth.. ya that's where we'll be sleeping on the weekends come spring and summer.

2005-12-30T09:17:00.000-08:00

My god this problem was difficult...

2005-12-30T09:13:00.000-08:00

and beautiful.

Hey Ryan. Good job on the photos.. This post, the before and the one after are all really well done.

Ryan found some pictures

2005-12-30T09:09:00.000-08:00

back when it was warm...

GUIDEBOOK POSTED FOR SEHOME HILL

2005-12-10T22:07:00.000-08:00

Yes! My guide book (version Drtopo) is now displayed as the only Washington guidebook on http://www.drtopo.com.

definitely have to wait til spring to climb outdoors again

2005-12-10T21:40:00.000-08:00

OOH IT IS COLD

2005-12-10T21:14:00.000-08:00

It was so cold your body couldn't rotate on the rock and when you got off your fingers wanted to exploded causing you to curl into a little ball.

scraping the snow off didn't help

2005-12-10T21:07:00.000-08:00

Indoors for us

2005-12-10T20:56:00.000-08:00

We came to terms that it is TOO cold to climb. We have to wait until next spring to climb again.

I guess it is back to the gym pulldowning on plastic and hangbars.
I guess it is back to sitting in my dark apartment searching for bouldering photographs and videos on the internet wishing I was in Squamish and wishing it wasn't snowing at -5 degrees celsius

A tribute to the Mac Money who gets the hunnies

2005-12-06T05:04:00.000-08:00

But what is more important is climbing than the hunnies. Here is Mac Daddy pulling down on his new woody on Halloween. Was he out partying and getting drunk and getting girls fone numbers? No! He was pulling on plastic getting ready for his climbing trip to Korea in Summer (sponsored by Grande Industries).

Was he out driving his car off road and having to climb up the roof of some college kid's houses to avoid the police on a Friday night? No! he was building his woody!

Right on Mac! You have the right priorities. I'll see you on the rock at Songni Mountain in Summer! BIG UPs!

Note: I did spell "fone" correctly

the rock quality at Songnisan is unusual.

2005-12-06T04:59:00.000-08:00

These little holes are everywhere.

And the rocks are all over the place surrounding this temple.

Turtle

2005-12-05T09:02:00.000-08:00

Skyler mentioned the Turtle on a comment. I felt I should pay my respects to the Turtle by displaying its wonder.

In fact coming soon, climbing guide to Sehome Hill on http://www.drtopo.com and the climbing area that the Turtle resides has been termed, by yours truly, Turtle.

NOTE: This is not in South Korea, in a far far away place called Bellingham, WA, USA. But you probably knew that since all the boulders in South Korea don't have a whole lot of chalk on them!

Paul is a Crazy Bastard

2005-12-05T08:54:00.000-08:00

The dude insisted on climbing in even this blizzard. I have climbed in the snow but it wasn't a god damn blizzard. And the route we wanted to climb was covered in ice. He began to scrape off the ice. I was like "yo man, the problem gets harder on the way up. There is no way you can climb this problem in these conditions." So instead he found that little rock and sit started it and mantled it. I was laughing. Click on the photograph of him climbing it and look at his facial expression. He is hurting not from the difficulty but cause his shoes are so small and not expanding in the cold.

Walking through the Buddhist Forest

2005-12-05T06:12:00.000-08:00

alex toping out

2005-12-05T06:07:00.000-08:00

dyno

2005-12-05T06:04:00.000-08:00

First ascents by Alex, name - The Wise Oracle.

2005-12-04T22:33:00.000-08:00

Two slabs. One on the right without using the side hand and feet holds. More difficult
the other is using the side which was pretty easy.

Difficult amazing routes

2005-12-04T22:30:00.000-08:00

On this rock there are a number of problems. The best is this undercling crack start, that none of us held, up to this sloppy side rail and then up. ahh it was awesome. I can't wait to go back and put some real muscle into that start.

2 first ascents by alex. left - Dharma Junky; right - Korean Saving Face

2005-12-04T22:26:00.000-08:00

I felt bliss on this rock. Totally clean, near the trail. and just beautiful and untouched. Korea bouldering is a priceless jewl.

Ryan's second ever first ascent

2005-12-04T22:19:00.000-08:00

Songnisan

2005-12-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

At this time of the year, the small town surrounding Songnisan is empty and the national park and temples are quiet. My friends and I took off the trail right next to the temples and began exploring the forests and found a large quantity of rock. I plan on spending much time here to discover a plethora of climbs.

ryan on another first ascent named: Satsuma Man Loves Moss

2005-12-04T22:10:00.000-08:00

VIdeo

2005-11-29T09:44:00.000-08:00

I wish I could use Cast Post so that you can watch video in my blog here but that didn't work out.

I am using ourmedia.org instead and here are links to two videos I took.

http://www.archive.org/download/dave_hitting/daveclassic.avi
http://www.archive.org/download/I_am_hitting_this_high_ball_classic_in_Insubong/imgp1155.avi

you can also find these by typing "South Korea bouldering" in google.com

beauty

2005-11-20T06:07:00.000-08:00

(unnamed) V1

2005-11-20T05:51:00.000-08:00

v3 Ricola. You know spotting gets in the way of photos

2005-11-20T05:43:00.000-08:00

Ryan's first first ascent named Pung Sang (return to nature) v2 [although I think it is harder than v2 :) ] Beautiful climb though, oh man 4 star HB

2005-11-20T05:23:00.000-08:00

our hands began bleeding in just 6 hours of climbing on these granite boulders.

2005-11-13T06:52:00.000-08:00

dave took the beating

As usual, i took second behind dave.

name? i dunno.. but they say it is a (v4)... ya right

2005-11-13T06:43:00.000-08:00

it may look cool. but what i'm doing in that exact position is definitely wrong.

you can't see my legs but they are on nothing. i am squeezing the rock for a good thigh work out.
And by the way, what is with my facial expressions when I climb. I need to chiilll out

2005-11-13T06:40:00.000-08:00

Knifeblade.. is that the name? (Vmyhandsarecoldand theyhurt)

2005-11-13T06:29:00.000-08:00

this is where Alex transmorgifies into JP.
it was awesome.

Dave what the name of this one? (Vveganbutterspreadonwholewheatbread)

2005-11-13T06:20:00.000-08:00

Frustrated Canadian (shirtless) (Vpleasestopwatchingmeclimb)

2005-11-13T06:15:00.000-08:00

Dave - what's the name of this one? (Vspringwater)

2005-11-13T06:05:00.000-08:00

The start is uncomfortable and anxiety causing. Both start holds are small and the left hand is an undercling.

Then shoot up to this arret. Man it was a pain

Here is where Dave took over. You lay into these two annoying holds and then dyno up.

Buddha loves Solar Energy (v1)

2005-11-13T06:02:00.000-08:00

Vmyshoesreallysmellbadithinkthereissomethingwrongwithmyfeet first ascent - Cocky Jocky named by Dave

2005-11-06T00:18:00.000-08:00

Vdave'ssecret - our 4 star problem. Name: Soju Warriors

2005-11-06T00:01:00.000-08:00

beautiful place all to ourselves cause no one climbs boulders in Korea

2005-11-05T23:57:00.000-08:00

alex on a v5

2005-11-05T23:54:00.000-08:00

v1 highball

2005-11-05T23:42:00.000-08:00

Dave on a v7 dyno

2005-11-05T23:39:00.000-08:00

Paul on a v3

2005-11-05T23:31:00.000-08:00