Monday, November 21, 2011

Cycling in Korea: Gangwon-do - a place for bicycle touring micro adventures! Puma/Cougar sightings too

I told a true story about cycling in Gangwon-do, Korea and having a Cougar (Puma, Mountain Lion) jump out in front of me, growl like a tiger, leap to the mountain, growl again, and have it's cub rustling in the brush over a barbed wire fence that the mother obviously leaped over, we went back to that site together, the Tiger Conservation researcher and myself last week, we found dung samples for the lab, hope we determine the DNA, here's the story in blog, welcome to the Korean-World, a link to South Korea and Adventure Living.
 Back up near Jeongseon with the Tiger/leopard Conservation Authority to find DNA samples
 Cycling up Daegwallyeong (Hwy 456 on Google Maps)
 Inner mountain Highway 59 passes along the Odaecheon River (Jinbu-Taebaek route)
 Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion are different names to describe this wild cat.
 I cycled from Gangneung City to Jeongseon City
 Fog entering Pyeongchang-gun, from sea level to about 850 meters in 20km
 Cycling in Korea, something I love to do. Join the Facebook group!

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