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In Photos : Fall Cycling in Seoraksan

Jared — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:35:05 +0000

Seoraksan National Park is a one of the most beautiful places to visit in Korea. Recently I spent the weekend with friends cycling the mountains during DanPung (단풍) which is the Korean word for the changing of the leaves in fall. Here is what we saw.

For more info read: Seoraksan, A Great Place to Cycle and Osaek by Bike

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April 8th 2011 – Jake Lee turns the last corner reaching 920 meters on the first mornings climb.

April 8th 2011 – A view of the road with Jessica Pesterfield on her first mountains climb.

April 8th 2011 – Decending into the prettiest valley in Korea.

April 8th 2011 – DanPung (단풍) The changing of the leaves.

April 8th 2011 – Katie Eichten all wrapped up in her Ground Effect jacket for the brisk decent.

April 8th 2011 – DanPung (단풍) The changing of the leaves.

April 8th 2011 – Katie Eichten and Katie Tibbetts still on the long smooth decent.

April 8th 2011 – Katie Eichten stands next to a 38th Parallel marker, the border of North and South Korea.

April 8th 2011 – Katie Tibbetts giving the 38th Parallel a bit of lovin

April 8th 2011 – That’s me. Enjoying a nice warm afternoon.

April 8th 2011 – Katie Eichten sporting our club, The Han River Riders new cycling jersey.

In Photos : Spring 2011 Cycle Touring Korea

Jared — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:17:41 +0000

Was going through this years cycling photos this evening looking for a couple of good ones for an article that I am writing about cycling in Korea, when I realized that I hadn’t put any of my photos up any on the Braking Boundaries site this year. So here are my favorite pictures from this spring.

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April 3rd 2011 – Riding the mountains of Seoraksan Park near the village of Osaek.

April 3rd 2011 – Found a new road with a killer 18% incline. Fun to go down, not so much going back up.

April 9th 2011 – Morning of our first attempt at the 400km Brevet

April 9th 2011 – Evening of the 400km Brevet on the ferry back to the mainland realizing we wouldn’t be able to finish so we hatched our own biking mission finishing a total of 283 km before arriving back in Gwangju at 3am.

April 23rd 2011 – New helmet ready for its maiden voyage on dirt roads and in the mountains to Danyang.

April 23rd 2011 – Katie Eichten packs her Orlieb panniers for the first time. Turkey looms closer every day.

April 23rd 2011 – Cherry blossoms along the dirt road that follow the northern side of Lake Chungju

April 23rd 2011 – Relentless ups and downs on dirt road for over 30km. Rare in Korea.

April 23rd 2011 – Katie Eichten works her way up yet another climb. The first time she has been on a dirt road for this long.

April 23rd 2011 – Strapping stuff down as the wind picks up making it tough going.

April 23rd 2011 – Stopping for a breather and to take in the shear beauty of Korea in the spring.

April 23rd 2011 – On the other side of the lake where the road is lined with Cherry Blossom trees at their best.

April 24th 2011 – All because Seoul is a modern city doesnt mean the rest of Korea is.

April 24th 2011 – Well off the beaten track up concrete roads behind small farms.

April 24th 2011 – What, more dirt roads. Katie struggles to understand how I can all this a shortcut when the sign added 10 km to our destination.

April 24th 2011 – Getting closer to Chungju, but still on the dirt.

April 24th 2011 – One of my favorite pics of spring. Korea, simply a great place to ride.

April 24th 2011 – Hardest dirt road climb of the spring. A great challenge for Katie

April 24th 2011 – Looking back at what we just accomplished

May 1st 2011 – My first ride with the Chuncheon crew and a huge day of climbing the mountains in Gangwondo to the Peace Dam and back. Days elevation of 3000 meters.

May 1st 2011 – 12% down, most likely meant it was 12% up.

May 21st 2011 – Suzie Heibel breaks in her new Scott bike. First time ever on a weekend adventure.

May 21st 2011 – It may have rained, but spirits are high

May 22nd 2011 – Andrew Godlewski sports his hat from the previous nights dinner festivities.

May 22nd 2011 – Break time on the road. Time for some gummy bear power

May 22nd 2011 – Katie Eichten and Andrew Godlewski power off for another climb to 850 meters

May 22nd 2011 – Tibbs rocks along to pass everyone and make to the top of the mountain first as usual.

May 22nd 2011 – Weird and wacky cartoon characters mark the change of a province.

The Rest of Our Photos

Jared — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:33:26 +0000

Over six months Tom, Katie and I took over 6500 photos. While we tried to put photos on the site as we traveled this became less frequent as we chose camping in strange places over the comforts of hostels with wifi. This left me with the mammoth task of sorting through and formatting pictures at the end of the trip.

Finally after countless hours sorting, turning and cropping I am proud to say that the best photos from all 3 cameras are now online including Tom’s photos from his solo adventure as he took the Northwestern European route while we went West.

Countries that have been added to the sites collection include Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, (and the amazing Cappidocia) Albania, Croatia Switzerland and the rest of our European adventures.

There are even more albums of our latest adventures can be found in the photo album section of the Baking Boundaries website.

Enjoy,
Jared, Tom & Katie

New Photo Albums From Uzbekistan

Jared — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:15:33 +0000

Uzbekistan, although not initially on our place to cycle turned out to be a very interesting place with amazing, friendly people and interesting cities.

See the country through our eyes with the latest albums

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Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan Photos

Jared — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:06:10 +0000

The only good thing about waiting for visas is having a little downtime to update family and friends about the trip so far. Since we had a few extra days in Bishkek I thought I’d update our online photo albums with four new ones from the Stans.

The City of Almaty

22 Photos

From Border to Border in Kazakhstan

44 Photos

The City of Bishkek

22 Photos

The Road from Bishkek to Osh

128 Photos

2 New Photo Albums

Jared — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:08 +0000

Having 4 people on the trip means four different perspectives, especially when it comes to digital photography. So we have all chosen our favorite photos so far to make the following albums. Dalian to Beijing & Beijing Antics

Dalian to Beijing

34 Photos

Beijing Antics

36 Photos

New images of South Korean Trips

Jared — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:13:58 +0000

I’ve had a very productive week, Braking Boundaries site wise that is. Most if not all the design has now been completed. I’ve also finally gotten around to adding images from our previous cycle trips around Korea.

Here are some links to the new albums.

Braking Boundaries Team – Thought I’d chuck together some photos of the team and others who frequently ride with us.

http://www.brakingboundaries.org/photo-albums/photos-south-korea/last-ride-of-2007/ & http://www.brakingboundaries.org/photo-albums/photos-south-korea/boys-bike-trip/ – Both of these weekend trips left from Bundang and headed over to the hills to Yangpyeong before crossing over highway #37 where we stayed in a Tourist Hotel in the middle of nowhere. Round trip was about 160-180km. This was the first and so far only time Shane has dared to adventure out with us.

Cycling Seoraksan – Completed earlier this year, this was another great weekend adventure. Starting at Injae we cycled to the Oseak valley before crossing over Seorak mountain the next day, which is so far the biggest mountain we have cycled (970 meters). About 140km all up.

NOTE: Tom, Dave and myself have since gone back and completed this route in a day with half of that being in the rain.

Chungju Lakes & Beyond – Our first 3 day cycle of 2008 which turned into an epic mission of dirt roads, lost team mates and tired legs took us around the Chungju lakes and surrounding areas.

Finding Danyang – Not satified with the previous weekends attempt to get to Danyang, Katie, Tom and myself decided to take a slightly shorter route which as per usual turned out to be a little harder than expected, again tackling the Korean mountains.

The DMZ Experience – Another 3 day bike trip again over large Korean mountain ranges, this time very close to the North Korean border, over the South Korean Peace Dam and into Chuncheon for some much needed Dalk-Galbi. (닭갈비)