On Tuesday it was Memorial Day in Korea so we had the day off. We decided to go to Pukhansan Mountain to see the fortress/castle and the wall (we never did end up seeing these things). It has been made into a national park and is quite large, so we ended up starting out on the wrong side of the park to see the wall and fortress. We did do some hiking of the large mountain though. We did not do the whole hike as it was very hot outside (30 degrees) and we did not come prepared with enough water. But we did have fun and had some adventure and took some beautiful pictures of the mountain.
"Adventure 1": Climbing down a steep and slippery rock, Scott almost falls but doesn't, however, he is seen by some Korean men who are quite shocked by his rather quick movement down the rock. The same men proceed to come up the rock to show me how to get down without killing myself... showing me ended up involving one of them holding my arms from above and another holding my feet from below... so I didn't do very well and it was all rather embarrassing, but they assured me "good job" when I was down.
"Adventure 2": Later on we were going down another rock face and my foot slipped on some loose pebbles. I fell and hit my tail bone on a rock ledge, then turned my body and continued sliding/rolling down the rock, grabbing frantically for any tree branches or shrubbery to stop myself. In case you're wondering, yes I did manage to stop myself and did not roll right off of the mountain as I originally feared I would. It supplied us with much laughter after I was finished groaning and supplied me with a rather painful bruise on my tail bone, another on the left side of my hip, another on my shoulder, another on my leg, a few on my ribs and some scrapes on my arm, stomach and rib cage area. I was and still am incredibly sore as well. But at least I didn't fall off of the mountain or break any bones.
If you are interested, pictures of this latest adventure are posted on our pictures of Korea link.
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