Seoul Trail revamp
I regularly visit Seoul, and for the last couple of years I've been doing segments from the Seoul Trail, a series of walks that add up to a 150km circuit around the outskirts of Seoul. If you like hiking I recommend it, it's mostly through the hills and wooded areas surrounding the city or parks within the city and the bits I've done thus far have mostly been very enjoyable. Everything is generally well signposted and easy to follow, with varying degrees of difficulty from completely flat paved roads to very hilly trails.
The trail had been divided into eight segments but just after I last visited the trail was reorganised into 21 smaller ones. This was very sensible, the original segments mostly being about 10-20km and taking 3-6 hours (with the notable exception of section 8, which was 36km) which can be a bit much (especially that section 8, or section 1 which had about 1km of ascent in it overall). It does complicate matters if you're trying to keep track of what you've done already though so I've put together a quick table:
| Original | Revised |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1-3 |
| 2 | 4-5 |
| 3 | 6-8 |
| 4 | 9-10 |
| 5 | 11-12 |
| 6 | 13-14 |
| 7 | 15-16 |
| 8 | 17-21 |
This is all straightforward, the original segments had all been arranged to start and stop at metro stations (which I think explains the length of 8, the metro network is thin around Bukhansan what with it being an actual mountain) and the new segments are all straight subdivisions, but it's handy to have it written down and I figured other people might find it useful.