Hiking in the Spring with the Cherry Blossoms

Well it's finally here, real spring. 25 and sunny all day. So much so that Saturday I decided to grab Geoff and head off on a 16km hike through Apsan. The Cherry blossoms are in full bloom giving as well, so the walk through the parks to the mountain is also great. We hit our usual trail up, which has some great views and some real slogs. On the way up we got some solid views of the farmland behind the mountains of Daegu.

us with farmland and valley behind us.

We've done the trail a few times, and admittedly it won't be at its best until mid0May when the whole mountain will be green (I'll take more photo's then for sure). On the way down we actually took a new trail entirely by mistake, as the old one was apparently washed out in the floods. It was a steep descent but we did come by some neat old burial grounds.

these burial mounds are very common on

hillsides and mountains in Korea, but few are

this well maintained.

We did finally make it to the bottom and to the artificial lake and shops near it. We stopped in to the convenience store for a beer and a snack before I headed home to shower and pass out. My knees were a bit sore on Sunday :)