Lunar New Year - Skiing, Ice fishing and hiking

For our first long weekend we decided to explore a bit more of Korea by taking a trip to Gangwando with a company called Adventure Korea (http://www.adventurekorea.com/). We made our way to Hongdae station to get the bus VERY early on Saturday morning to get to the ski resort. It only took a few hours to get to the ski resort called Phoenix Park and I was surprised that the snow was fairly good, although the setup is no where near as big as those in Europe. After an afternoon of skiing, I spent the evening in the water park (hot tub) while Jack went night skiing.

nice sunny weather!

The next day involved more skiing and lots of drinking games, ending up in a deserted club that we made our own! The next day we set off early to the Ice fishing festival on a very cold day, between -5 and -10. We didn't catch any fish through the ice but Jack did catch three with his barehands! 

Fishy!

Which you then had to put down your shirt...

T After another coach journey we made it to our final destination where we (well some of us) did a morning hike, which was described by the guide as a ard walk but was one of the steepest hikes  I have ever done! It was still nice to get out into the country side though :-)

At the top but we didn't realise what was to come!