Naechang Mountain Ho!

This weekend I was able to escape Seoul for the provinces again and do a mountain hike down at Naechangsan in Cholla province. We arrived just before the peak of the fall color season but the crowds will be much worse next week. Interesting to see how Koreans take their hiking gear so seriously, decked out in the latest professional climbing gear which has thankfully replaced the Swiss-inspired, long edelweiss sock look that was all the rage five years ago.