The View from Mount Anma

Michael and I finally climbed up to the top of Anmasan about 3 weeks ago! I was a little down a few months ago when one of my students told me she could walk it in about half an hour and I still wasn't able to make it to the top. So Michael and I were determined to do what pretty much all Chuncheonians are able to do: reach the top of one of the tiniest mountain ranges in Korea. Yea! We did it!

All said, it took about an hour to climb to the top (that includes the walk from our house to the hiking trail). We were pretty exhilerated when we made it, and I thought the climb wasn't too bad. We've turned hiking into a hobby here now that fall has come and the mosquitoes are starting to die down (we made a tough call to forgo vaccinations before coming to Korea and apparently malaria doesn't just happen in the jungles of Africa). We went to Homeplus and picked up some ajumma and ajeossi style hiking outfits. The only thing we do not have to complete our new looks is the hiking sticks. If we weren't leaving in a few months, we would probably purchase those too. With the leaves changing right now, you can look forward to some more pictures of Anmasan in all its glory.