| Sogni-san area Boeun-gun Hyeongje-bong Jang-gojae Pass Sanshin-gak |
| This extremely obscure site is outside the Sogni-san National Park border, in wild mountains in Boeun- gun County, near the Baekdu-daegan mainline, part of its region. It is located near a sharp hillock called Hyeongje-bong [Elder-Brother Peak] and north of the Jang-gojae [Guardian General Old-Pass hiking trail. It's in a 'saddle' that seems to have once been a pass over the ridge, but now the ancient trail has been almost totally lost, and the area is just forested wilderness. My old friend Roger Shepherd "discovered" this a decade ago, and he, my friend A. Jake Preston and two other "mountain-kiwis" visited it in March 2021. Jake & Roger gave me these photos. It is not known how long this site has featured a Sanshin-gak [Mountain Spirit Shrine] as a pass- guardian (against tiger attacks, stranding weather or other bad-fortune; nor who built this crude modern one, nor who now maintains it or ever holds a Sanshin-je ceremony at it. The icon-portrait is simple, crude & cartoonish, probably one of the mass-printed types. |
| The traditional pyeongaek signboard over the doorway is too corroded to read well, with the first character (reading R-to-L, rare) impossible to identify, but Jake guesses that it says (?)峯山王閣 / (?)봉산왕각 / ?-bong Sanwang-gak / ?-peak Mountain-King Shrine. |
