Overnight flight out of Hong Kong International; the plan was to sleep and wake up in Incheon. Totally didn’t happen because one of the inflight movies was Up In The Air, which I had not watched yet  (but I really wanted to see it cause I’m a George Clooney fanboy like that). Getting from Incheon was a lengthy journey; we took a public bus from Incheon to Seoul (~1hr) then a coach bus from Seoul to Yongpyong (~3hrs).

Skiing was great, we spent four half days skiing, some drinking, and of course, there was lots of food involved. It felt kinda strange though, because I grew up eating poutine and burgers by a fireplace when taking a break from skiing, not ramen and bulgogi. The second last day there, it started getting warm, it even rained in the afternoon! But nightime came, and the rain turned to snow I woke up on the last day with some fresh snow on the slopes. I considered giving snowboarding a try on the last day, but the fresh snow made me rent skis instead so I could hop onto the gondola up to Dragon Peak for its 7.4km run back down to the base (If I rented a snowboard, I’d be stuck on the cruddy green hills).

Going at the tail end of  ski season has its advantages; there weren’t alot of people on the slopes and rentals + lift tickets were at a 40% discount! However, be warned that the ski equipment isn’t that great, we got these oldschool boots I haven’t seen for years instead of the buckle boots. Next year I’ll hopefully have my own set of skis and boots~

View from the top of Dragon Peak. Its got two black runs and a 7.6km blue run.

And yes, they really bow to you when you get off the skii lift (I have a video, but its gonna have to wait until the weekend until I can upload it)

While I was in Korea, I noticed how I had become too accustomed to the HK lifestyle..

• I was surprised when cars actually stopped to let you cross the street
• I totally forgot you have to clean up after yourself at fastfood places
• I totally expected a McDonalds or Starbucks within a 5 minute walk at any time
• I totally forgot things that “close way too early” should actually be “things close at normal time, things in HK stay open way too late”

Anyway, some photos from the trip can be found in the flickr stream below: