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A TV anchorman discovers that a mysterious bundle of incense has the power to send him back in time, where he has the opportunity to alter the past. A TV anchorman discovers that a mysterious bundle of incense has the power to send him back in time, where he has the opportunity to alter the past. A TV anchorman discovers that a mysterious bundle of incense has the power to send him back in time, where he has the opportunity to alter the past.

• Lee Jin-wook
• Jeon No-min
• 9 User reviews
• 2 wins & 2 nominations

Episodes 20

• Park Sun Woo

• Joo Min Young …

• Park Jung Woo
• Son Myung Hee

• Han Young Hoon

• Oh Chul Min

• Choi Jin Chul

• Choi Jin Chul (Young)
• Choi Jin-Cheol's secretary
• Kim Yoo Jin

• Han Young Hoon (Young)

• Park Chun-Soo
• Park Jung-Woo (Young)

• Park Sun-Woo (Young)

• Joo Min-Young
• Kim Yoo Jin (Young)

• Park Chang-Min

• Kang Seo-Joon
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Nine: Nine Time Travels

Anchorman Park Sun Woo heads to Nepal to identify the body of his dead older brother, who's been on an adventure to help restore their family's happiness.

Despite his worsening condition, Sun Woo and CBM work together to expose Choi Jin Cheol. Meanwhile Min Young learns the truth.

Realizing that the incense sticks are the key to time travel, Sun Woo follows his brother's clues to find the nine remaining incense sticks.

It's Christmas 2012, and Sun Woo surprises his mother and his best friend with a gift and a secret. His actions in the past begin to affect his present and his memory.

Now with his brother happily married and alive, Sun Woo must face the consequences of no longer having Min Young by his side.

Sun Woo's illness worsens with each travel back in time, but he's still determined to save his father's life.

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Lee Jin-wook

Park Sun-woo

Jo Yoon-hee

Joo Min-young

Jeon No-min

Park Jeong-woo

Seo Woo-jin

Young Park Jeong-woo

Jeon Gook-hwan

Park Cheon-soo

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K-Drama Review: “Nine: Nine Times Travel” Notches A Clever Time-Slip Series With Lee Jin Wook & Jo Yoon Hee

A few years ago, tvN’s 20-episode Nine: Nine Time Travels ran a mind-blowing experience for its thrilling fantasy premise.

Achieving peerless cliff-hangers, Nine: Nine Times Travel  mocked all the time-traveling stories with seamless presentation of consistent timeline transitions and convergence, when the genre was predominant in that period of time.

• Title: Nine: Nine Times Travel
• Streaming Site: Netflix
• Main Leads: Lee Jin Wook | Jo Yoon Hee

• Related Dramas: Tomorrow with You | Tunnel | Circle

Nine: Nine Time Travels will excite your Sherlock veins through its incredulous hero’s journey. Chronicled with ample thrills, the series injected inconceivable trajectories using its supernatural premise.

It is the story of a man who obtained nine incense sticks that functioned as a time-trekking device. Utilizing the enchanted incense sticks, it helps him leave clues to his past self to escape his looming death in the future.

His time warping adventure brings him to events of 20 years ago. Presenting the pieces of information that his future self uses to change the course of time in the past, it gave a riveting picture as he protects the people he loves and his life.

Nine Times Travel Peak Points

Imaginatively conceived, Nine: Nine Times Travel paraded a stunning picture which will challenge your focus and deciphering skills. But the series has always emerged victorious in going different to how the viewers deconstructed the path and curves of where it was heading.

For a change, I witness a hindered love story that does not involve vengeance or inability of the couple to communicate thereby jumping into wrong conclusions. This time around, there’s no trusting blindly and no let’s leave it to fate resolution. Instead, we got a love tale fighting to survive the odds with the aid of nine incense sticks.

The fluidity of the characters from past and present helping each other to pin down the villain was depicted efficiently. On that note, the wicked villain was a more contrived worker than the joint protagonists.

Leaving clues for his future self to pick up, the hero successfully left the last clue to the woman he loves. Therefore enabling him to save his brother’s supposed frost accident which started his awareness of changing the past.

True, this was a hard-to-follow drama as the supernatural kicks bordered to beyond impossible. But, that was also what made the series strong. It was not afraid to push its limit without abusing its metaphysical element.

The well-linked conflicts and the focus on just one villain helped in drawing a clear flow on the main character’s battle. Instead of myriad problems coming incessantly with no basis, the hero-villain showdown was solid from beginning to the end.

Nine Times Travel Series Musings

Leaving the audience to decide what closure befits the series that was religiously watched is always a challenging task. Nine ended on a calm emotion, like it was giving me a cranial massage for all the brain activity I had to out through.

For me, it was a satisfying ending that fulfilled the hard work of all those time sojourns for the male lead. I stuck to my preconceived notion that it will be the couple’s love that will resolve everything. Explaining that the hero’s unfortunate fate was bound to happen. It yielded unrealized warnings that he needed for him to survive and to make everything right.

Although the connection of the sticks and the hero was not explained to the fullest, we can conclude that when he used it, its binding power can be luck or curse depending on how his mind works to process the incidents presented to him.

Nine: Nine Time Travels  is one of my favorite K-dramas even now. It was an exceptional labyrinthine story that banked on the coherent flow of its narrative while linking the timelines.

With its smart characters and nifty writing, it is one drama that would keep you on an addictive spree.

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• Title: 나인: 아홉 번의 시간 여행 / Na-in: Ahop Beon-ui Sigan-yeohaeng
• Also known as: Nine / Nine: 9 Times Time Travel / Nine: Time Travel Nine Times
• Genre: Time travel, romance, fantasy, thriller, mystery, melodrama
• Episodes: 20
• Broadcast network: tvN
• Broadcast period: 2013-Mar-11 to 2013-May-14
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 23:00
• Nationwide: highest rating=1.9%, highest peak=2.1% ( AGB Nielsen Korea Pay TV Household)
• Women in 30s: highest rating=4.4%, highest peak=5.1% ( AGB Nielsen Korea Pay TV Household) [1]
• Original Soundtrack: Nine: Nine Time Travels OST

Park Sun Woo ( Lee Jin Wook ) is given nine chances to travel back in time to solve a crime that happened 20 years ago. However, this is not without consequences as his involvement in the past effects the lives of many including his.

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• Production Companies: JS Pictures , Chorokbaem Media
• Director: Kim Byung Soo
• Screenwriter: Song Jae Jung , Kim Yoon Joo

Recognitions

• 2013 2nd Daejeon Drama Festival - APAN Star Awards: Best Director ( Kim Byung Soo )
• 2013 6th Korea Drama Awards: Top Excellence Actress ( Jo Yoon Hee )
• 2013 Mnet 20′s Choice Awards: 20′s Drama Star - Male ( Lee Jin Wook )

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Nine: Nine Time Travels is a 2013 Korean Drama that ran for 20 episodes. Park Sun-woo is an anchor for a Korean news program who has fallen in love with a junior reporter for the news channel, Joo Min-young. However, Sun-woo's past has several tragedies. His father Chun-soo, a hospital director, was killed in a fire nearly 20 years ago. His mother is in a nursing home, with a severe case of dementia. And Sun-woo suspects Choi Jin-chul, his father's old partner, of setting the fire that killed Chun-soo. Jin-chul has since become a very rich businessman and chairman of a stem-cell research firm.

Then there's Sun-woo's brother Jung-woo, who has this crazy idea that he can travel back in time and fix what went wrong with his family. Jung-woo leaves Seoul for parts unknown, and one day Sun-woo gets word that his brother has been found dead in Nepal. Sun-woo goes to Nepal to claim his brother's body, and discovers that his brother was found still clutching an incense stick, one of nine in his possession. Eventually, after a couple of bizarre experiences with the incense sticks, Sun-woo discovers that his brother was right about time travel. The incense sticks are time-travel devices. However, they have two very important limitations:

• Light one, and you go back in time exactly twenty years, down to the minute, no more and no less.
• After you've traveled back 20 years, you can only stay there for about a half an hour, until the stick burns out. After that, you go back forward twenty years, down to the minute.

Sun-woo must use the incense sticks to fix what went wrong with his family, and defeat the evil Jin-chul. And he has to hurry, because of one more problem in his complicated life—he has terminal brain cancer, and has something like six months to live. And while all this is happening he and Min-young become lovers, but Sun-woo's time-hopping will complicate that part of his life as well.

Tropes in this series:

• All for Nothing : Sun-woo works his butt off to get the incense sticks, go back in time 20 years, and get his father away from the hospital and the fire that killed him at 10 pm on Dec. 30, 1992. He succeeds, travels back to the end of 2012, and finds out that he postponed his father's death for exactly three hours.
• Alternate Timeline : Has unintended consequences for Sun-woo. He finds out that his brother Jung-woo had a girlfriend 20 years ago, Yoo-jin, and their father forced him to break off the relationship, and Jung-woo hasn't been the same since, which is why he went off on a fatal trip to find the incense sticks. So Sun-woo travels back to get Jung-woo back together with Yoo-jin. It works, as Jung-woo is alive and well and happily married and a doctor, chief of surgery. But it turns out that Min-young is Yoo-jin's daughter from a previous marriage . So now not only is she no longer Sun-woo's lover, but she calls him "Uncle." Bummer.
• Batter Up! : The big fight in episode #17 ends with Sun-woo, who has arrived in 1993 from 2013 wielding a bat, knocking Chang-min out with said bat.
• Battle in the Rain : In episode #17, a knife-wielding Chang-min, acting on Jin-cheol's orders, attacks Sun-woo in an alley while it's pouring rain.
• Book Ends : The series begins and ends with Jung-woo in the mountains in Nepal—see Gainax Ending below.
• Child by Rape : Episode #15 uses a flashback-within-a-flashback to the late 1960s to reveal that this is how Jung-woo was conceived. Jin-cheol, enraged that Myung-hee was dumping him for Chun-soo, raped her.
• Dénouement Episode : The plot threads are largely wrapped up in Episode #19, in which Sun-woo 1.0 dies after being trapped in 1993, and Jin-cheol is killed in a car wreck. The last episode is mostly going back over the romance between Sun-woo 2.0 (the 1993 version that encountered his future self), and Min-young—until the Gainax Ending (see below).
• Department of Redundancy Department : So, how many time travels again?
• Dutch Angle : Used with Jin-cheol when he finally figures out the time-traveling business.
• Driven to Suicide : In the first alternate timeline, Jung-woo kills himself, ridden with guilt over all the harm his accidental killing of his father caused.
• Flipping the Bird : Min-young does this to Sun-woo over a live satellite link after finding out that his weird marriage proposal—that they get married, but for only six months, tops—is because he's terminally ill.
• Gainax Ending : The original version of Sun-woo—Sun-woo 1.0, let's say—dies back in 1993 when he gets Trapped in the Past and Jin-chul promptly kills him. But the alternate version of Sun-woo, the one that's 18 in 1993 and visited by his future self—Sun-woo 2.0—is still around. This Sun-woo has learned enough about the perils of time travel and altering the past that he elects to trust to fate, hoping that he'll make the right decisions. Although Sun-woo's time travels did in the end spare Jung-woo's life, Jung-woo winds up, in this new timeline, again drawn to Nepal and again looking for the incense sticks. The series ends with Jung-woo lying in the snow in the mountain pass, clutching an incense stick— a repeat of the opening scene . A shadow passes over him, just as in the opening scene. The camera then reveals that the shadow is being cast by an older, graying Sun-woo, presumably Sun-woo 2.0 having traveled back from 2033 to save his brother, indicating that the new version of Sun-woo didn't make the same mistakes and lived a long life. Sun-woo : [last line of series, greeting his brother] Long time, no see.
• Grievous Bottley Harm : During their Battle in the Rain , Chang-min stabs Sun-woo and is about to turn him into a pincushion, when Sun-woo luckily finds an empty beer bottle in the alley. He cracks it over Chang-min's head.
• Hard Head : 18-year-old Sun-woo hits Chang-min in the head with a bottle. He gets up and keeps attacking. 38-year-old Sun-woo, having arrived from the future, whacks Chang-min in the head with a bat. Chang-min gets up again and keeps fighting. It takes another hit with the bat to knock Chang-min down for good.
• Karaoke Box : A flashback in episode #12 reveals that in the original timeline, this is where Sun-woo met Min-young, at a party for the news channel's new hires.
• Kubrick Stare : In episode #17, Chang-min flashes a few at 18-year-old Sun-woo after Sun-woo, fleeing from a knife attack, has managed to lock a glass door between himself and Chang-min.
• Luke, I Am Your Father : Inverted. The argument that ended in the death of Chun-soo turned ugly when a scornful Chun-soo told Jung-woo that Jung-woo's real father is Choi Jin-chul.
• Luke, You Are My Father : Jung-woo drops this little truth bomb on Jin-chul in Episode 19. Jin-chul then wants to have a relationship with his son, which is pretty amazing, since ont only is Jung-woo a Child by Rape but Jin-chul had just gotten through telling he murdered Sun-woo in 1993.
• My Future Self and Me : At the end of episode 2, Sun-woo calls his 20-years-younger self on the phone. Later they meet up in person. In episode #17, 38-year-old Sun-woo saves the life of 18-year-old Sun-woo (and obviously his own as well).
• New Year Has Come : After 1992/1993 Han finds the pills that present-day Sun-woo dropped, the Ripple Effect leads to a cancer-free Sun-woo as of the stroke of midnight, New Year's 2013-14.
• Parental Marriage Veto : Chun-soo tried very hard to exercise it in 1992 when Jung-woo fell in love with a lower-class woman who already had a kid.
• The Reveal : Episode 7 reveals that Park Chun-soo was not killed by Choi Jin-chul. Rather, Chun-soo died in a confrontation with his son , Jung-woo.
• Sort of. Sun-woo remembers everything that happened before, as for some reason does Han Young-hoon, Sun-woo's doctor and best friend who knows about his time-traveling incense sticks. But both Sun-woo and Young-hoon also get new memories after Sun-woo's actions change the time line.
• Apparently everyone's memories are ultimately ripple-proof, as Min-young recovers her memories of her romance with Sun-woo after finding a note she wrote to him in the original timeline.
• Romantic Rain : After Min-young recovers her memories of her romantic Nepal getaway with Sun-woo, and her relationship with him, he finds her at a playground where she used to hang out. It's raining. They have a dramatic kiss.
• Scenery Porn : Some pretty impressive shots of the Himalayas.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong : Sun-woo's goal, to go back twenty years and save his father and his family.
• The Slow Path : After 18-year-old Sun-woo receives the two remaining incense sticks from the police—they were found in the fire, and his fingerprints are on the case—he carefully puts them aside and leaves a note for his future self to find them 20 years later.
• Split Screen : Many scenes feature events from 1992-3 and the events that are happening exactly 20 years later going on in the two halves of a split screen.
• Split-Screen Phone Call : Used often to show both sides of a phone conversation.
• Trapped in the Past : After using the last incense stick to save his 18-year-old self from Chang-min back in 1993, Sun-woo thinks he'll zip back to the present in time for his wedding—but he doesn't. He doesn't have to wonder about it for very long, though, as Jin-chul promptly murders him.
• Vehicle Vanish : Just when Chang-min spots Sun-woo in episode 13, a family with a child carrying balloons passes by, and then Sun-woo is gone. Subverted when Chang-min spots Sun-woo diving into his car seconds after.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot : Sun-woo upchucks into the nearest toilet after getting the news about his brother.
• Write Back to the Future : After 18-year-old Sun-woo figures out that 38-year-old Sun-woo's warning about someone dying in the future is about him—uh, them—he starts leaving notes to his future self, writing one on his (their?) guitar and scratching others on the walls of the house. 18-year-old Sun-woo wants his future self to come back and explain, but 38-year-old Sun-woo can't, as he left the last two incense sticks back in the past (specifically, at the scene of the fire that killed his father).
• Your Days Are Numbered : Sun-woo doesn't have a lot of time to fix things.
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A wise man once said…, nine: nine times time travel ending explained.

Here we are at the Nine: Nine times time travel ending. A lot has happened, and overall the story had an interesting take on time travelling. It had his own rules and seemed to follow them well. I liked the fact that lingering interference could keep on changing the future. So even when Park Sun Woo was already back in the ‘present’, things could change. The 20 year gap that kept on moving at the same time made it a unique take on time travelling.

The ending gives us something to think about too. There are multiple explanations of what could have happened: some happy, some depressive. Before we continue, we must go back to the beginning of our series.

Nine: Nine times time travel – Beginning scene recap:

We’re in the Himalayes. We see the brother in a thick, red jacket. He is struggling to climb a snowy mountain. Finally he falls. For some reason he grabs an incense stick and tries to light it. But then a shadow falls over him.

The scene changes to ‘Pokhara, Nepal. December 15, 2012’.

We meet our hero Park Sun Woo and find out it is actually a year later than our snowy-mountain-scene. Apparently Sun Woo’s brother died there. The clothing and items fit, but the body is unrecognisable.

– Shadow standing over brother before he supposedly dies – The brother is identified by the items, the body itself is never identified

Nine: Brother falls

Nine: Shadow over brother

Nine: Nine times time travel ending recap:

In episode 19 we’ve seen present Park Sun Woo making the changes in the past to make the future happy for everyone. He is going to marry. Brother is alive. However, he gets stuck in the past. There he records that he understands the meaning of the incense sticks. He says it’s his life: every time he used a stick his life shortened. Now he used every one of them and his chances are over. He just hopes everything turned out all right. He is starting to feel glad that he is dying, because it is fitting… And I think it would be very painful too, to life 20 years in the past and growing old, knowing the age gap between him and the girl he loves will be more than 20 years, even if he survives to meet her again.

Now, we fast forward a bit. We find out Park Sun Woo saw Joo Min Young just before he dies. He makes her promise that if she meets someone with his face in the future, she will keep her distance, because this person will ruin her life.

Present day Min Young remembers this exactly at the same time and starts crying in shock. She knows Sun Woo dies.

But then of course there is still teenage Park Sun Woo. He grows older and older, getting closer to the time when ‘present Park Sun Woo’ (the one who is dead now) found the sticks and started time travelling. However; the life of teenage Park Sun Woo is not the same as that of present (dead) Park Sun Woo. His brother did pay for his crimes and went to prison and Min Young acts differently because she met present Park Sun Woo. And of course he knows that present Park Sun Woo could time travel (and realizes that present Park Sun Woo dies in 1993). He also remembers the advice of present Park Sun Woo: he will always make the right choice.

So in the end he realizes that Min Young might have had advice to avoid him, but he already loves her. Strengthened by the thought that he will always make the right choice + the fact that he now has a warning he might die when time travelling he chooses to love her anyway, because his future might be different than present Sun Woo’s. He follows Min Young to Nepal.

Notice: it is mentioned that his brother will be in Nepal at the same time too.

It would be all nicely wrapped up, but the writers decided to add a next scene. We are again on the snowy mountain. We see the brother in the snow, like in episode 1. A shadow falls over him… and then we see a bearded (older?) Park Sun Woo bending over and reaching out his hand, saying: “Long time no see, Hyung”.

My thoughts on the ending

1. The clean and tidy ending It was all nicely wrapping up, until the very last seconds. Without the scene with the brother on the mountain, my explanation would be as following:

Present Park Sun Woo dies, but changes the past so teenage Park Sun Woo will have a good life. Teenage Park Sun Woo never finds his brother on the mountain. Because of the pills they found in 1993 he is treated in time for his brain tumor. He starts to like Min Young and in the end chooses to marry her. Yes! Downside : our present Park Sun Woo’s friends and family have to life in their reality and do realize Sun Woo is dead. Downside averted : Perhaps the moment Sun Woo tells child Min Young to avoid the person with the same face as he has, Sun Woo made his final changes in 1993 and the 2013 reality might have changed/stopped at the time he dies.

2. The clean and tidy ending with some questionable mountain climbing Remember that brother also went to Nepal at the same time? Let’s say the clean and tidy ending happened. Then somehow his brother decides to go mountain climbing and he also has an incense stick. Sun Woo trough some miracle follows his brother and is in time to rescue him.

Although possible, this would bother me: – Why does the brother need incense/climb the mountain again? He seems happy with his life. – How does Sun Woo know and finds him on this big mountain? – Why does Sun Woo has  a beard and is possibly older (okay, might be that it is some days later and he has fast growing hair).

3. Different choice ending Suppose the brother we see dying at the end, is the same brother we see in episode 1 (there was a shadow too, remember!). However, Park Sun Woo makes a different choice when finding out about his dead a year later. Instead of going back to the past to try to save lives there, he decides to save up (some of the) sticks. He then lives his life and after 20 years lights the incense to save his brother. This would explain why he looks a bit older. This would open up a whole new reality and make a whole new story. But then this mountain ending scene would be not ‘what happened’ but more like ‘what could have happened if’.

4. There was a Park Sun Woo before Okay, this one is hard to explain. In the ‘different choice ending’ I explained that it could be a future Park Sun Woo (from 2032/2033) that goes back. Perhaps this future Park Sun Woo made THIS choice to begin with. But he might come too late and will not be able to save his brother on the mountain. He then leaves his brothers body behind and changes something in 2012/2013 that makes present Park Sun Woo make a different choice (safe everyone in 1993).

He does save his brother and leaves a death body (the brother is only identified by the items/picture). He somehow knows that it is necessary that present Park Sun Woo thinks his brother is dead and starts searching for the sticks. Like a big chain reaction. But that does make one wonder: where did the death body come from?

5. Park Sun Woo did not die in 1993 It would be strange the police messed this up, but what if Sun Woo stayed alive/came back to life in 1993? Then he would try to change his future again. He would wait for 20 years and then go to Nepal to save his brother. This way he could save his brother and make his other self not use the incense sticks. His other self would end up with the girl and his brother might find some happiness in the fact that a 20-year-older Sun Woo knows what he has done and forgave him. For 20-year-older Sun Woo it would be sad that he must live his life for 20 years without his friends and family, only to know that his other self would get the girl… However, it might be possible that by saving his brother his existence gets erased immediately and the whole time loop gets… well, not untangled but strangely stuck?

6. Teenage Sun Woo catches up with all his memories Teenage (but already full grown now) Sun Woo goes to Nepal to get his girl. When it is the same date and time present Sun Woo realizes he can time travel, his memories catch up. He now knows what moves present Sun Woo. He does nothing and lives his life peacefully. However something unknown happens that makes him want to change his life anyway. Because it is already in the future that he realizes he wants to change, so he can’t change it in 1993 any more. He finds the sticks. Maybe they are back on the mountain again, because the current time line Sun Woo never retrieved them from there (like a clean slate). He decides to change his life at the very beginning of all the misery: he goes back to the moment his brother is on the mountain, dying, and saves him. The Sun Woo from this time (Sun Woo who is 20 years younger than teenage Sun Woo) then has another change: he does not know his brother’s betrayal and his brother does not die. He also gets the girl. It’s like Sun Woo version 3.0.

7. Too difficult to name Okay…

So like I said this time travel drama has his own rules. One of this rules is that the past changes the present of 20 years later. So even when a present seems changed already, it can still change because of a ripple that is made in the past.

Sun Woo said: Min Young is the key. Because of what she tells Sun Woo (guy in the past saying she should avoid him), Sun Woo knows he will die in 1993. This knowledge influences the present Sun Woo, because when his teenage self knows he will die, the present/future is changed again. Present Sun Woo does not die in 1993 but stays alive because of this knowledge. He then decides he doesn’t want to die, but does not want to let his brother die either. So he lives 20 years happily with Min Young. Then he goes back to 2012 to when his brother walks on the mountain. He saves his brothers live and everything will change again.

8. Episode 1-19 was all a fantasy Teenage Sun Woo might have met a man who helps him and tells him he is his 20-year-older self. Episode 1-19 might be al fantasised by teenage Sun Woo about what happened to this man.

9. Brother is destined to want to change his past Maybe his brother still feels sorry for killing his dad (even though he is happier now than in the other time line). He goes to Nepal, but because of all the changes it is a different date then the first time. He dies there (like in the first time line) and Sun Woo will again find out about the sticks. Because of his knowledge of present Sun Woo dying and the fact that 1992/1993 wasn’t that miserable any more he does not go back to 1993. He lives his life happy and just saves his brother with a stick (2032/2033).

It is giving me a big headache! I think ending 2 is the most satisfying, or otherwise ending 9. His brother was in Nepal at the time too. He might just wanted to take a hike and teenage Sun Woo might be worried and goes after him. Sun Woo catches up (grows a beard in the meantime) and is glad to finally catch up and save him.

It keeps bothering me however, that in episode 1 we also see a shadow lingering over brother (is it Sun Woo there too?) and that the brother tries to light an incense stick too (not the most logical thing to do when dying on a mountain).

What do you think is the most satisfying ending? How do you think it ends? Post a comment with your thoughts.

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It’s both 7 and 9. Jungwoo decides he wants to change the past (as he did in the beginning) and he dies. Young Sunwoo goes to Nepal to pursue minyoung but finds out about brothers death. He doesn’t use the incense stick because minyoung said he dies going to the past. Instead he waits 20 yrs and saves his brother at 2033. His decision not to go back probably changes the future so that his future doesn’t die in 1993.

There is a huge mistake in your endings or what may have happened.

Or I am mistaken.. one of those lol From what I have seen the incense is completely gone. it cannot be re-used whether you go back to past to use it or not. Remeber the episode where Choi Jin Jol gets the 2 incense stick in the container and when he lights one it disappears instantly? I am guessing it disappeared instantly when he used it because that incense was the one Seon Woo used in the future. So basically when Choi Jin Jol had only one incense stick remaining even though he technically retrieved two from the past. So doesn’t this mean doesn’t matter where/when the incense gets used.. once its used.. it cannot be used to time-travel. Following that logic, there isn’t a way for anymore time travelling.

Also if what I said is the correct thing then some may be guessing.. the older brother has an incense stick in the end in his hand, how is it there? well It was never explained where/how he got the incense but he never lit it so we can’t say for certain if that logic stands, cause technically in the end things were already changed so when seon woo’s brother found the stick, that stick was already used by seon woo previously, it would just disappear. Atleast if the logic behind incense works as I have thought.

Anywayz if you don’t understand what I am saying here then don’t worry about it. Even I am confused right now lol

I can’t let go of the ending! Totally agree with you about the incense sticks not able to be used again because it has been used up. So no more time travelling. Why the elder brother is in Nepal? Why the incense stick? They could have just end it with a happy ending with the wedding. It’s too complicated!

I think that incense stick disappears because choi jin chul use it in the future.. when sunwoo used the last stick past and future changed and the incense stick already gone too in the future.. but in the past theres still two incense stick with choi jin chul and that old man didn’t know anything about time travel cause he is still in his old self.. only younger sunwoo knew about that cause he already met his older self.. what if he start looking for that remaining incense stick?? Choi jin chul already in the jail that moment.. and what if he found it and save it for 20 years or maybe 40 years to used it and save his brother?? Thats why he said “long time no see hyung” to his brother cos he’s waited for years to save him.. And then I remembered about one line “The man who used one stick to save his family” what if that man is actually Sunwoo.. he save his brother and leave the remaining stick that his older brother got in Nepal??

Btw I would agree with ending 2 that you have wrote down.. and my above comment was for the parts where you talked about using incense. It is just too confusing honestly the most messed up part was when Seon Woo didn’t appear in wedding. I don’t know why the younger Seon Woo or Seon Woo of that time line didn’t appear in wedding?

They could have made the logic simpler by making it so, when younger version dies that means no future. And if the older version dies.. then nothing would happen as the younger version would just continue his life. and the older versions death doesn’t affect the younger version because the younger one is already making different choice so technically it’s not his future anymore.

So it would have made sense if Seon Woo had appeared in wedding while his older version died. But the younger version didn’t appear in wedding so that just made things too complicated honestly…. They could have just made it simple and made it so Seon Woo doesn’t remember about time travel when the older version died because the older version doesn’t go back to the younger versions body. So younger version just knows that his older version had time travelled to warn him and that’s all. Min Yeong and others would remember about time travel because their original/older versions didnt die. So simple right? I don’t know why they made it so confusing lol

There could have been so many reasonable possibilities if it wasn’t for that nonattendance in the wedding..

Your first comment makes sence about the sticks not being able to be used anymore, so that final scene at the end in the snow is just to confuse us all more.. it couldnt have ended in the plain period.

And about the wedding i guess i think it would have made more sense if he would have attended the wedding, but it wouldnt have been so dramatic, and you know what they say, is all about the drama!

to me 7 and 9 makes it all clear thank you! my explanations were similar to this as well. btw this show rocks!

I myself can still not completely wrap my head around it, very confusing :D.

i think older version of sungwoo had told the newer version dat he,the newer one,will always make a right choice.so this is the first signal dat this time the newr one had made a right choice and had not repeated the mistake of d older one.moreover this time jung woo is saved by theolder one so it might have happened so dat the sticks might not reach to hands of sunwoo, newr one

During the series the Hindu religion is bashed as Satanic and the REAL God, Jesus “Lord”, is praised instead. The sticks were several times called evil, and later Sun Woo says HE is the sticks, hence he is evil. This is biblical because everyone is a sinner, that’s why they need a Savior. In the very first scenes we see a shadow over the brother BUT it is not determined to be of a person … it could very well have been Satan, “the angel of death”, because the brother did die, there was enough evidence it was the brother on the body and those items were saved by the police. Later Sun Woo makes favorable comments about God, “the Lord”, to me that signals he has given up his atheist ways and will now honor God. Obviously the brother went up the mountain again, he still had regrets and thought he would try again. Sun Woo sensed this about his brother and went after him, saving his new life — he has totally forgiven his brother in a Godly way, whereas before he came to the Lord he was bitter and said, “I will never forgive you.” But a bitter heart never brings happiness and I think at the end both brothers realized that and that’s why they reach for each other in the very last moment of the series. Both are at peace.

Well here is my opinion: The alternate endings you wrote may show that Sun Woo not only time travels by using the insence stick,instead he was HOPPPING DIMENSIONS.You know some movies or stories wrote their stories stating that the Earth consists of many different timelines,and so on.I think that the past or future Sun Woo uses the insence stick to travel between alternate dimentions so he may know what will happen in his whole life.Here is an example: If Sun Woo is sure to die in that particular timeline and Sun Woo knows that he WILL die,he can use his insence sticks to hop to another new alternate dimension(to the time he has done something about his death)to change his outcome of death. (Each of the timelines don’t affect each other,right?) In the original story,viewers may see a lot of time paradoxes so it would be quite confusing. Well…… these are my OPINIONS ONLY. Thank you and have a nice day.

I forgot to state this:The original timeline that Sun Woo existed may be nullified or cancelled the moment he jumps to another dimension. This may quite confusing.

I wish they end with them getting married. They tried to add my mysteries and excitement but didn’t wrap it up good. sigh so frustrating cos the 1-19 was so good!

I think I figure it out, (maybe not hehe) but I think that the whole problem can be resolve if his brother dont die in the mountain, and park explain to him all the thinks and avoida his suffering ( the first die brother in mountain) if you think that the brother’s die is a chainlas reacction for all, take another thing in conscience, you cantcan useme the. Sticks two times, the sticks dont respect the time, so park figure it out and save his brother, and explain all in 2033 and avoid all problems in allpersona realitys, the BIG problem is how can he return if you cant use the sticks twice!!! I think they introduce us at the end the possibility of multiple life realities and one of thee multile aprks figure how to use the sticks correctly!!Tanks for read my bad english thaughts lol

#9 cleared everything up for me, thanks!

btw i’ve found that the rules of time travel in any story are very difficult to understand. even doctor who leaves me shaking my head because it doesnt add up. the best thing ive found is to just accept it and enjoy the story!

for those of you who liked this show.. do you have any recommendations for more asian shows like this? preferrably ones with good endings.

there was an interview with the director, he said the park Sun Woo appears at the ending is 50x years old.

Seems its ending 7^^

and 9 too, both

I loved this show right up to the very disappointing ending. I was engaged for every episode and ended up with nothing of substance.

They should have allowed him to return to 2013 so he could marry Min Young! Is it me or do the Koreans like to spoil the endings. The end of Mr. Sunshine was not what was expected. He died. As a matter of fact, all of the gentleman who loved Ae Sun died. This story leaves you to believe that Sun Woo’s life is still on the line. I kind of felt hopeful of what he said about Min Young holding the key. She LOVES him, so my thoughts are that he would live!

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Nine Times Time Travel – Daisy Li, Lin Fengsong

Nine Times Time Travel is a fantasy romantic drama directed by Nian Jianlun, starring Daisy Li , Lin Fengsong , Fan Xiaodong , Sun Weisong, and Liu Muzi.

English Title: Nine Times Time Travel Chinese Title: 与你的九次相遇 Genre: Fantasy , Romance , Drama Tag: Time Travel , Butterfly Effect , Lovers Reunited , Scientist Male Lead , Death of a Character Episodes: 22 Duration: 10 min. Director: Nian Jianlun Writer: Wang Meng Released Date: 2023-11-09 Broadcast Website : WeTV , 腾讯视频

Brain scientist Shan Yu accidentally learned that his first love Min Ying's death, Min Ying died before holding a birthday candle; Shan Yu lights the candle, and with the light, a miracle happens - the candle can take him back to ten years ago!

Shan Yu time traveled many times to save love, but accidentally causes butterfly effect; An affectionate past that had been hidden for ten years also surfaced......

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Time Travel Equation Solved By Astrophysicist

Posted: March 25, 2024 | Last updated: March 25, 2024

After a lifetime of pursuing the idea, Physics Professor Ronald Mallett at the University of Connecticut has potentially figured out the theoretical aspects of time travel. Professor Mallett believes that black holes, rotating light, and gravitational pulls may hold the key to exploring time, but it’s all theoretical for now. There are still a lot of hurdles and limitations to handle before time travel can have real, practical applications.

A Life Spent Thinking About Time Travel

Love and loss pushed Professor Mallett into an obsession with time and space. When he was 10 years old, his father passed away from a heart attack. It was his father who nourished his love of science, but H.G. Wells’ book The Time Machine pushed him towards a focus on time travel.

He was hooked from the very first paragraph of the book, “Scientific people know very well that Time is only a kind of Space. And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?”

That paragraph never left him, and the professor let that time travel question guide him through school and into the Professor Emeritus of Physics position at the University of Connecticut.

Einstein And Black Holes

As he grew up, Professor Mallett spent much of his time on Albert Einstein’s theories about black holes. While his interest in time travel only continued to grow, a potential solution never showed itself. At least, not until the professor ended up in a hospital with a heart condition.

There, lying in the hospital bed, inspiration hit him. Black holes and the gravitational fields they created were the answer to time travel. These gravitational fields had the potential to lead to time loops, which then theoretically could allow people and objects to travel back in time.

Black Holes Manipulating Gravity

While this idea offered an ability to manipulate time, the other problem was how to use these time loops for time travel.

Professor Mallett found this time travel solution much easier than the first problem. Strong and continuous beams of light, like a ring of lasers, with a particular rotation could be used to manipulate gravity and mimic the distorting effects of a black hole.

Though the details are rather complicated, the big time travel picture is a lot simpler to grasp. The professor offers a comparison to help people understand. “Let’s say you have a cup of coffee in front of you. Start stirring the coffee with the spoon. It started to spin, right? That’s what a spinning black hole does. In Einstein’s theory, space and time are related to each other. That’s why it’s called space-time. So when the black hole spins, it will actually cause time to shift.”

Much To Figure Out

Professor Mallett may now have a theory on time travel and a machine to use to make it possible, but that doesn’t mean it will be here in the next few decades.

There’s still a lot to figure out to make such travel practical, such as where the insane amount of energy such a machine would require could come from, and how big the machine would need to be.

There’s also a major constraint on the machine. According to his theories, time travel would only be possible to the very beginning of when the machine was first built. In this way, it’s more like a one-way message service. You can potentially go forward quite a distance, but going back in time is limited by the machine’s creation.

Theoretical Aspects Of Time Travel

The professor has made a huge leap in figuring out the theoretical aspects of time travel, but there’s a lot more to discover and quite a few hurdles and paradoxes to figure out before scientists practically start messing around in time.

Still, the theory is a step in the right direction and does suggest that people can push past what science currently considers possible.

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I spent 9 months traveling the world. I had a great time, but I'd never do it again.

• I spent nine months traveling the world , and I wouldn't do it again despite having a great time.
• Because I was on a tight budget, I often found myself turning down cool experiences to save money.
• I also struggled to make genuine friendships and missed having a space to call my own.

When I was working remotely in 2021, my boyfriend and I packed up and traveled to 22 countries across Europe and Latin America.

Although these were some of the best days of my life, I quickly learned that a lot of the videos I saw on social media that glorified full-time travel didn't always showcase the downfalls of the lifestyle.

More and more people are becoming digital nomads — countries like Italy have even implemented specific visas for remote workers. But during my nine months abroad, I learned that the lifestyle isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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I think traveling is something everyone should prioritize, but there are ways to see the world that don't involve doing it full time.

Nowadays, I plan to take at least four international trips a year, ranging from one to two weeks. This allows me to live a travel-filled life without giving up the comforts of home, career, and relationships.

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Evidence for Planet 9 found in icy bodies sneaking past Neptune

Something is throwing icy bodies past Neptune, and scientists have an interesting idea about what it might be.

More evidence for a hypothetical extra planet lurking in the most distant reaches of our solar system has come to light — and the clues are associated with icy bodies that cross the orbit of Neptune while traversing  long, looping paths around the sun .

Planet Nine , as the predicted planet is referred to, was first postulated in 2016 by Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown, the latter having also discovered the dwarf planet Eris in 2005. Their original evidence predominantly focused on the clustering of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are objects that spend the majority of their orbits farther from the sun than Neptune is. That's quite far. More specifically, the duo had zoomed in on TNOs with high inclinations, meaning the objects orbited the sun at steep angles to the ecliptic plane. 

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However, some astronomers remained skeptical, arguing that what Batygin and Brown saw as clustering is just an illusion caused by observational bias . The Caltech duo dispute this, and have actually now published a paper that focuses particularly on observations of low-inclination TNOs that don't cluster, but which still have peculiarities.

These icy TNOs are strange because they spend most of their life hundreds of times farther from the sun than Earth is, but their orbits are so elongated that they swoop in and spend a short while closer to the sun than Neptune, which is just 30 times farther from the sun than Earth. "With this work, we looked at objects with long-period orbits but which also strongly interact with Neptune, specifically those that cross Neptune'’s orbit," Batygin told Space.com .

This doesn't include every object that crosses Neptune's orbit, to be clear. Pluto is a good counterexample . Like Pluto, the majority of TNOs don't have orbits that are as elongated as the ones included in the team's new research. Rather, most TNOs have trajectories that keep them relatively close enough to Neptune for extended periods of time such that they can be controlled by the ice giant's gravity. 

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The team, however, concerned itself only with those TNOs that get hundreds of astronomical units away from Neptune's gravitational tides, where Planet Nine can exert influence over them — if it so exists, of course. Because these studied objects come from all directions close to the ecliptic plane, without exhibiting any clustering behavior, the same claim of bias leveled at previous evidence regarding high-inclination, clustering TNOs does not hold.

The studied TNOs, and any on similar paths, don't spend too much time in their orbits; over the course of millions of years the gravity of the azure blue ice giant Neptune inevitably bats them away, scattering them far and wide and sometimes even out of the solar system entirely. This means that whatever is sending TNOs onto Neptune-crossing orbits is doing so continuously. There must be an ongoing process in place to keep the TNO supply replenished. This means that the culprit can't be something that happened in the distant past, like a star passing particularly close by. It has to be something that still exists.

There are two scenarios that could regularly place TNOs on long, looping orbits that cross Neptune's path. One scenario is that of the galactic tide, which is the gravitational tidal force of the Milky Way galaxy all around us acting on objects within the Oort Cloud , which lies far away beyond Neptune. These objects only loosely feel the sun's gravity due to their distance from our host star, but the galactic tide can usher them closer towards Neptune.

The other scenario — perhaps the more interesting one — is that the gravity of Planet Nine is perturbing these Oort Cloud objects enough that they tread closer to Neptune over time.

Batygin and his team — Michael Brown, Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, and David Nesvorny of the South-west Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado — performed two sets of simulations using observational data of real, low-inclination, Neptune-crossing TNOs to learn which scenario is more accurate. 

One simulation involved a planet with a mass five times that of Earth influencing the TNOs (the simulated properties they used for Planet Nine are derived from the characteristics that best explained previous evidence such as the clustering of the high-inclination TNOs), while the other simulation had no Planet Nine at all and modeled just the galactic tide. Which would be most adept at getting TNOs to pass by Neptune?

The simulations showed that low-inclination TNOs can only regularly penetrate Neptune's orbit if Planet Nine is indeed there to slingshot them. On their own, the eddies of the galactic tides were calculated as too weak to get TNOs past Neptune. Hence, in the galactic tides simulation, the TNOs get to within a certain distance of the sun and no closer —  but in the Planet Nine scenario, the TNOs are spread across a range of Neptune-crossing orbits, which matches what we see in reality.

"We show that you can reject the scenario where this is all happening because of the galactic tides with an astonishing degree of statistical significance," said Batygin. "Conversely, the Planet Nine scenario is perfectly compatible with the data."

Batygin likens it to a football (soccer, for you Americans reading) match, where Neptune is the goalkeeper. The galactic tides can shoot the TNOs towards the goal, but not with enough oomph to get them past the goalkeeper. Planet Nine, on the other hand, is like a planetary Harry Kane, regularly shooting the TNOs past Neptune with finesse.

"What we see in the data are a bunch of footballs inside the goal," said Batygin.

Still, the hunt for the football striker continues.

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Later this decade, the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile will open and begin conducting a nightly, all-sky survey with its 8.4-meter telescope mirror. It will be able to test the evidence for Planet Nine available so far — the clustering of the orbits, the alignment of their orbital planes, their steep orbital inclinations, and the prevalence of retrograde (backwards orbiting) Centaurs . Those refer to icy bodies that have come in from the Oort Cloud and which currently orbit among the solar system's outer planets. If any of these are illusions caused by observational biases, then the Vera Rubin observations will reveal them to be. Though conversely, it could strengthen the evidence, and find many more TNOs that exhibit the same potential influences of Planet Nine. 

"It will test all of these gravitational lines of evidence with an independent new survey that is not subject to the same biases as the previous ones," said Batygin. 

It is even possible that the Vera Rubin Observatory will go all the way and actually find the big tamale. 

"By virtue of its efficiency, maybe — just maybe — it will find Planet Nine," said Batygin. "That would be pretty cool."

The new results have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and are presently available as a pre-print .

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• RTKY Planet 9 "was first postulated in 2016 by Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown"?? Not even close. A long list of people over the past 80 years have postulated about the existence of a large planet far beyond Neptune. Many citing the exact same evidence listed in the 2016 paper. They were essentially called conspiracy theorists and their theories labeled as "debunked". The 2016 paper was simply the established science community's trying to claim credit for something they long ridiculed by citing the exact same evidence that's existed for decades. An attempt to say "Oh, ya , we knew that... in fact we actually discovered it" instead of simply acknowledging that they were finally willing to admit the validity of something they'd "debunked' for decades. The declassification of Pluto as a planet have them the cover to act as if their claims were new and novel by calling it Planet 9 instead of the 10th Planet, Planet 10, Planet X or whatever. They've since attempted to rewrite history by trying to convince everyone that Planet X was simple a baseless conspiracy theory about a sinister planet that spelled doom for Earth. It wasn't, it was a generic term used as a placeholder for an undiscovered but a highly evidenced large planetary body in the outer solar system with an off axis orbit around the sun. I hate this aspect of science. Reply

RTKY said: Planet 9 "was first postulated in 2016 by Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown"?? Not even close. A long list of people over the past 80 years have postulated about the existence of a large planet far beyond Neptune. Many citing the exact same evidence listed in the 2016 paper. They were essentially called conspiracy theorists and their theories labeled as "debunked". The 2016 paper was simply the established science community's trying to claim credit for something they long ridiculed by citing the exact same evidence that's existed for decades. An attempt to say "Oh, ya , we knew that... in fact we actually discovered it" instead of simply acknowledging that they were finally willing to admit the validity of something they'd "debunked' for decades. The declassification of Pluto as a planet have them the cover to act as if their claims were new and novel by calling it Planet 9 instead of the 10th Planet, Planet 10, Planet X or whatever. They've since attempted to rewrite history by trying to convince everyone that Planet X was simple a baseless conspiracy theory about a sinister planet that spelled doom for Earth. It wasn't, it was a generic term used as a placeholder for an undiscovered but a highly evidenced large planetary body in the outer solar system with an off axis orbit around the sun. I hate this aspect of science.

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Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. Starting this week, that voice belongs to Laura Randall, a veteran journalist who has written extensively about hiking and the outdoors. She is the author of “60 Hikes/60 Miles: Los Angeles,” now in its third edition, and “Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California.” She has lived all over Los Angeles County and has never failed to find good hiking trails nearby.

Every once in a while I get the itch to flee Los Angeles. To get as far away as possible from the gridlock of the 405, the digital billboards, the soul-crushing drives around LAX. I’ve found the easiest way to do that is a local day hike.

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But even hiking here can be frustrating, complicated and, yes, expensive. Some parking lots near trailheads charge as much as $12 a day. A few years ago, Rancho Palos Verdes introduced an online parking reservation system with a head-spinning number of restrictions and time limits near the popular Portuguese Bend Reserve. And the L.A. City Council recently announced stricter parking regulations for nonresidents in the dense area surrounding Runyon Canyon.

That’s why my criteria for these mini-getaways are strict: They must be easy to navigate without a lot of confusing spur trails, be outside of areas where weather-related closures are common and — most crucially — offer abundant, free parking. The sooner I can drive to a trailhead and get out of the car, the sooner I can have a welcome respite from the chaos of city life.

In my 25 years of living and hiking in L.A., I’ve collected a handful of go-to trails that fit this bill. Let me be clear: There are plenty of hikes I love that are worth the aggravation and extra effort. But whenever I need to get away and don’t have time to plan ahead, I pick one from this list.

As the weather improves and hillsides turn lush and green, here are three trails to consider for a spur-of-the-moment escape. Like a late summer visit to the Hollywood Bowl or a barefoot walk on the beach in January with Mt. Baldy in the distance, they are only-in-L.A. experiences that never fail to make me feel lucky to live here.

Beaudry Motorway Loop There are so many things I love about this six-mile loop in northwestern Glendale: easy street parking, a moderately challenging climb to Tongva Peak and views that showcase the best (and sometimes worst) of Los Angeles. On a clear day, you will see the movie studios of Burbank, the downtown L.A. skyline, the less-glamorous northern side of Griffith Park, the Pacific Ocean and even one of the tallest peaks in Orange County.

You will also see (and hear) the cars on at least three major freeways, the transmitters of iconic L.A. radio station KROQ-FM, the foothill communities of Montrose, La Crescenta and Tujunga and the trails of other mountain ranges that appear (deceivingly) close enough to touch. Reaching the peak always takes a little longer than anticipated. But that’s just what you want from a good hike: the feeling that you have really earned those views upon arriving at the top.

Rocky Peak Trail Don’t be put off by the trailhead’s proximity to the 118 Freeway as you start this five-mile out-and-back hike at Simi Valley’s eastern edge. The traffic noise disappears quickly and you are rewarded with spectacular mountain views and otherworldly rock formations. You’ll see other hikers (and some mountain bikers) on this trail, but thanks to its wide, dusty fire road, it rarely feels crowded. There are plenty of boulders right off the trail, perfect for a lunch pit stop or a view lookout. The trailhead has a small parking lot, with overflow parking a short walk away across the freeway bridge.

Sara Wan Trailhead at Corral Canyon This shadeless Malibu coast trail is best enjoyed in the morning before beach crowds show up. There’s a small fee-based parking lot but also ample free parking along Pacific Coast Highway. Most people opt to follow the 2.5-mile loop counter-clockwise, but either way it’s a lovely introduction to Malibu’s canyons and coastal bluffs. Right now, Corral Creek is flowing, the area is exploding with wildflowers and the intoxicating aroma of sage, fennel and salt is in the air. If you time your visit right, you can end your hike just as Malibu Seafood is opening for the day and cap off your excursion by enjoying a lobster roll while staring out at the Pacific.

3 things to do

1. Tour a marsh teeming with wildlife in Carson Once part of a much larger wetlands environment known as Bixby Slough, Bixby Marshland was restored by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Departments and opened to the public in 2009. Now, it’s an unlikely haven of green space tucked in the shadows of the 110 Freeway and home to herons, hawks, ducks, tree frogs, willow and sycamore trees and more. It’s open Saturday for guided and self-guided tours from 8 a.m. to noon. There will also be programs that focus on teaching, healing and entertaining led by Indigenous people, local performance artists and naturalists. No reservations are necessary, and the paved paths are wheelchair-accessible. For more information, visit www.lacsd.org .

2. Practice yoga on the sand in Hermosa Beach The warrior pose is even more rejuvenating when you’re staring at the ocean with crashing waves as your soundtrack. Hermosa Beach kicks off a month of free mindful yoga classes on Monday as part of the Beach Cities Free Fitness series. Classes are led by certified instructors the first three Mondays in May from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. You’ll meet in front of Scotty’s restaurant, 1100 the Strand, near the Hermosa Beach Pier. Walk-ups are welcome, but you can register in advance at www.bchd.org .

3. Go stargazing on Mt. Wilson The venerable Mt. Wilson Observatory kicks off its warm weather season Saturday with an evening lecture on Edwin Hubble and the dawn of modern cosmology presented by retired Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist Tim Thompson. Guests can then observe the skies through the observatory’s 60- and 100-inch telescopes, as well as additional ones provided by the Los Angeles Astronomical Society. Tickets are $50 and food trucks will be on hand. Or bring your own picnic to enjoy under the stars. The event runs from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m., and you can find tickets at mountwilson.edu .

The must-read

The first house I lived in here in Los Angeles sat on a canyon that had a couple of oak trees with canopies so wide that an entire class of kindergarteners could fit under them. My husband and I were advised by our neighbors to treat them with respect and care: never overwater them and prune lightly, if at all, and only during certain times of the year.

I thought of those majestic trees when I read Laurie Wayburn’s Arbor Day opinion piece in The Times about the important role that older, more natural forests play in the climate crisis and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Planting new trees, while well-intentioned, Wayburn notes, doesn’t have nearly the impact on carbon sink as properly caring for the forests we already have. There are so many trails in Los Angeles with old-growth native trees that provide shade, tranquility and joy for hikers who approach them on scorching-hot days. Next time you see one, take a moment to appreciate not only its beauty but also its role as a climate-change-fighting powerhouse.

Happy adventuring,

A few more tips to make any hike as hassle-free as possible: Get your backpack ready the night before. Fill your water receptacle and put it in the fridge and make sure you have sunscreen, snacks and a first-aid kit ready to go. The earlier you can leave, the better your chances of avoiding traffic and parking headaches and achieving that goal of getting away from it all.

I’m excited to share my own experiences covering travel and the outdoors in Southern California. At the same time, I love that there’s always something new and exciting to discover here, whether it’s an under-the-radar trail or a group hosting an outdoorsy event. If you hear of something that might interest readers of The Wild, drop us a line.

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Laura Randall is a Los Angeles-based writer and author of several Southern California hiking guides. She has written about hiking and travel for a variety of newspapers and magazines and is the author of “60 Hikes 60 Miles: Los Angeles” and the Wilderness Press guide to the Pacific Crest Trail in Southern California. When she’s not hiking, she can usually be found reading L.A. noir novels at the beach or being walked by a headstrong golden retriever named Boris.

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