Fun on the Slopes

Although the weather right now is in the balmy 30's with wind chill factor's getting into the single digits at night there isn't much snow to speak of. Oh we've had a few days with some snowfall but it melts away fairly quickly. And yet today our church group went out sledding at the Mubongsan snow park located outside Jinui and Osan City. We guessed that they must have an artificial snow machine, because it was the only place around with the white stuff on the ground and it was probably a good foot thick... and hard. There was also a Buddhist temple that was up on the hill opposite of the park (you can see it a little bit in the background of picture number 6). Maybe one of these days I can make a trip out to see that as well.

When we first arrived there were not a whole lot of people there, but that changed pretty quickly. You can see that in picture number 4 with the crowd on top the hill waiting to go down. It seemed that everyone in the area came out for a day of fun in the snow. The hill was a little small, but was mostly set up for kids, so a bunch of crazy American adults flying down the slope was a funny sight for the Koreans to behold I'm sure.

We spent a few hours there and had a blast! We all got a little snowy from crashing down the hill and had a lot of laughs. It was a fun weekend activity. So now enjoy the few pictures I was able to take before the camera froze up on me (I tried to take a video of one of my runs, but that didn't work out, but I had fun trying).