Where we left off...
The shelter. I finally got to sit down, get out of the raging wind, go pee (in the disgusting "bathrooms"), and drink some water and hot coffee in a can. Yes, there is such a thing as HOT coffee in a can!
We were only in the nap room for about 10 minutes, when they started to close it down for the day. I just couldn't win!
Let me just remind you that this was an 11 hour hike, and we had only gone the first 5 1/2 hours. So we left the shelter to be greeted with the most amazing view.
OK, so the picture doesn't really do it justice, but the East Sea is in the far distance. If only a Genie could have come to grant me wishes...I would have wished for a zip line to take me straight across landing right into the salt water I've been missing.
So we began our descent. This time it was much better. Even though it was mainly rock stairs, I wasn't having to climb and constantly pull myself up. We made it to the next shelter in 1 1/2 hours, where I ate my kimbap I had brought for lunch. The bathrooms here, I might add, were holes in the ground. But somehow, they smelled much better than the first ones which were toilets.
I shouldn't say smelled better....more like smelled less of rotten sewage death.
Oh, I also want throw my two cents out to Korea on something. Korea: you brush your teeth after every meal, only drive nice cars, never throw trash on the ground, always look clean and nice....yet you have NO place to wash your hands after hiking for hours and using the primitive bathrooms. WHY? Seoraksan was crawling with people. This is not a remote destination. You owe me some soap for having to eat my kimbap with my germ soiled hands.
Anyways,
We continued on like this for the rest of the day. Although we did stop to gaze at the beautiful leaves now and then. Unfortunately, blogger isn't letting me upload any more pictures at the moment, so the rest of the hike will have to be seen in part three.
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