Hiking Dobong

I got the hiking bug last weekend and attempted Mt. Dobong, part of Bukhansan National Park in Northern Seoul. There's a huge hiking boom right now in Korea. Most of the hikers are older men and women. On the weekends they fill the subways, dressed to the nines in their brand name hiking gear, complete with walking sticks. The hiking was practically shoulder to shoulder as the mountain was jampacked with people! I had never seen anything like it in my life! I didn't take a picture as I don't really want to remember the mountain like that!
Little shops at the bottom of the mountain, where you can buy alcohol (cause hiking drunk is so great, I guess), lunch, or hiking gear

A mysterious little side path

We didn't make it to the first peak, but we did make it to the temple just under the peak. We ran out of water and needed to refill.

Lanterns decorated the sky, probably left over from Buddha's birthday

Seoul in the distance

the view at the top

the trail

My hiking companions Jungho and Mini

On the way down I had to stop and soak my feet in the river

Other hikers had the same idea