After yet another great boxercise class, I
went home and gathered all the gear for tonight’s Flipside Fitness event –
Seoraksan Get Fierce, Get Fearless, Get-Away Plan B, which apparently meant
literally searching out and chasing down the delivery truck for the tents.
Originally we were going to jump in my van
and head three hours to the notoriously known Seoraksan; one of Korea’s top
three famous mountains. However, with
the rain this past week and a phone call to one of the mountain top workers, it
was confirmed – the mountain was closed off and our plans were a no-go. This was an obvious disappointing turn of
events but with the girls having changed their plans so they could come, I was
determined to make a plan B.
Plan B – Leave Saturday at 6pm for Taedusan
-- a local Cheonan mountain that’s no Seoraksan but definitely has the potential
to be great hike – camp out for the night and then return Sunday morning. And
that’s exactly what went down, with an extra dose of fabulocity and awesomeness
of course, thanks to the seven who joined me for the event.
As planned, we met outside of the downtown
Coffee Bean and then we headed to my house to load up on all the hiking/camping
gear – raincoats, sleeping bags, hiking sticks, tents, and first aid kit. I had assigned each gal some equipment to
carry but we weren’t anticipating using tents for Seoraksan so I carried one
and the other ladies took turns carrying the other. The bulk of our bags’ weight was the water we
were carrying. We all drink water like
fish but carrying a two liter bottle of water definitely turned our hike into a
kind of weight training session!!!
We took a snack break at the large mountain
top gazebo so all the gals broke out their snacks. Two of them had cooked some special treats
for us so that was definitely delish to indulge in. I’ve yet to see any foreigner in Korea with
an oven, most just have toaster ovens if that, so I’m always amazed at the
crazy creative things these ladies cook up!
We the sun went down we took out our
headlamps and switched them on. We
searched out a couple of spots on where to set up camp and then finally decided
on this one particular clearing in the path where there were various exercise
machines set up and a large sitting area.
Up with pop the two tents – Tent G and Tent D -- and camp was
established. I was in Tent D, the
down-and-dirty, on the ground tent with two other gals. We were the rowdy tent, giggling through the
night literally to the point of tears… hahaha.
I wasn’t too sure if we were really allowed
to camp out on Taedusan but then again a month ago we pulled off a midnight
mountain top BBQ with a full-sized, spark-spitting BBQ. The way I look at it is if scooters can drive
on the sidewalks, people can bring children to bars, and dogs are allowed in
stores, then a bunch of cute gals sleeping on a mountain top is harmless. We kept our trash in our bags, stayed on the
trails and no animals were harmed… can’t really comment on our toilet paper
throwing though. I’m sorry Mr. Tree, for
accidently having my clump of paper land in your branches and I’m sorry for hysterically
laughing at this fact… hahaha, oh gosh here I go again.
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