Suri-san Mountain Exploration for a Korean Battle Place
Yesterday, I and my wife dove to Suri-san mountain to explore the battle taken place in 31 Jan, 1951 and 2 Feb. 1951 between US Army 25 th Div. 27 th Reg. 3 rd Bat. and Chinese forces. This mountain had been my target to explore, but it was too high and looked too stiff to hike. I thought we rather approach the deep valley of the mountain to look around Suri-sa Temple. It was quite deeply located under the top of Suri-san mountain and good place to walk along with the creek and Kalchi-ho lake in autumn season of Korea. We started at 10:00 and arrived at 11:00 at the parking lot of the mountain. A lot of vehicles were parked along with the road and around the lake up to the parking lot. We saw a cafeteria selling coffees and chocolates and considered to use its bathroom after hiking. We walked along the road to the temple and arrived at the point to which the road was ended with its pavement and at which the mountain map was posted. We found the top of mountain, Hill 440...