Hiking up Mt. Sobaek

This weekend I went to a Ginseng Festival in Punggi and then went hiking.  Because I have yet to edit and upload the pictures I took at the festival and many of the traditional Korean housing I stayed at, so these are just pictures of hiking.

I went hiking up Mt. Sobaekson.  It is about 320 km of land.  It was quite a long hike and I must say -- you've never truly gone hiking if you've never gone up a mountain.  This was challenging and it took us about 2 hours to get up to the top.  Going down was a little faster, but even then you have to watch to be sure that a rock doesn't slip out from under you (I learned this the hard way by having a little wipe out myself).

It was really nice to go in the fall because we were able to capture some of the leaves changing colors (and it wasn't NEAR as humid as it would be otherwise).

We woke up to leave for the hike at 7:30 AM and finished up to have lunch at about 2 PM, so it was a full day of hard work!!