Cheonmasan and Saturday

I'm not really going to describe the hike because you can just look at my Flickr or Facebook photos and see what it was like, but I will say that it was really, really hot. I know it was at least 90F, although the humidity wasn't bad, and I ended up getting sunburned on the back of my neck, only because I sweated so much that my shirt stretched out and exposed skin that I hadn't protected with sunscreen. Also, the view at the top, as you can see in the pictures, was very beautiful, and well worth the pain and torture of climbing the mountain. There is a pretty serious 40 minute part of the hike that isn't covered in my pictures because I put the camera away so I could use both hands on some steeper parts, and also just having it out of the way was nice. We reached the top at about 12:55pm, which means it took us about about 2.5 hours to get from bottom to top including rest time, and 3 hours from Tim's apartment to the top. We then spent about 20-25 minutes at the top before heading back down, which only took us about an hour and 45 minutes by Graham's calculations. The reason it was such a good decision for Tim to go home when he did is that in his dehydrated state he would've probably needed to be hospitalized if he made the full hike, plus it turned out we only really had enough water for three people, so nobody had to die on the mountain.

We ended up back around my apartment around 3:30-ish maybe, and I went straight to the shower to wash off all the dirt and sweat. Once I was clean again I headed over towards Graham's side of town to meet up with him and watch New Zealand play against Italy in a friendly rugby match. We also drank a couple beers, which might not have been the best idea considering I was still trying to rehydrate after the climb, and also hadn't eaten much besides sandwiches and bananas all day. Luckily, we soon met up with Ryley to go out to eat, and we went to another barbecue pork restaurant, this one used the pork rib whereas the other one used the more bacon type meat. As always, it was extremely delicious and cost us 11,000W per person. After dinner, we went back to Graham's where we marveled at his huge pet rabbit for a little bit and had an interesting chat about American politics with Graham (NZ), Ryley (US), and Barney (UK). We again went to the Nox bar for a little bit and Graham invited me to go to Guri with him to get American fast food on Sunday, which of course I agreed to, and then we went our separate ways after a 17 hour day involving about five hours of walking/hiking/climbing.