Island

After a long day Saturday of bouldering with the Busan crew, I received a text message via my cellular mobile smartphone from good friend Dong-il asking for volunteers.  After inquiring, it seemed that he and his photographer Jean were headed down to a remote island to take some climbing photographs for their upcoming book; and they needed climbers to photograph!

"I'm in"

Geoje Island is a small (actually a rather large) island southwest of Busan.

We were headed to a tiny Island off of Geoje called So Mae Mul Do (Do, pronounced 'doe' means island in korean... unfortunately I don't have Korean Hangul on this computer) that was rumored to have some great trad climbing.

After driving to Geoje, spending the night, and waking at 6:30 to catch the ferry across, we were welcomed with some very cool geography/geology:

We climbed, and did our best, as Jean snapped away and made us look professional.  After about an hour of shooting, we headed back only to find that the violent wind would not allow the ferry to return to the island for several hours (just last week, Dong Il and Jean got stuck on another Korean island for a disenchanting four days due to high winds).

Heeran stopping to catch her breath, during one of the few non-windy moments during the day.

After all, the trip went well, we made it back to Busan and Dong Il and Jean got their photos they needed.