When I was a university student, I went with my friend to Mt. Sogumkang, which was located in KangWon-Do. This was the first free and non-scheduled travel in my life. I used to participate in church activities which had a tight schedule, but I had never gone on a non-scheduled travel before. As a result, I felt happier than other times.
The first time when we began to go on a trip, we did not know even where we wanted to go. We finally decided to look at a map and found Sogumkang on the map. When my friend and I planned to go there, we thought of Sogumkang as a river, because it has the word 'Kang' in its name. In Korean, 'Kang' means a river. However, Sogumkang was a beautiful mountain. (Mt. GumKang is known as the most beautiful mountain in Korea. Because Mt. Sogumkang looks like Mt. GumKang, people called it small GumKang. In Korea, 'So' means small, so "Sogumkang" means "small Mt. GumKang".)
We went by train for 8 hours and had a good time in the train. Even though it made loud noise like rubbing of steel, the sound seemed like a song. There were other students in the train, and they were singing and playing the guitar during the whole trip. Their song was also very loud and noisy. However, everything seemed beautiful, because we were starting our trip.
After some time, we arrived at Sogumkang, and rented a small room for a day. Then we cooked kimchee-soup and enjoyed it. It tasted hot and sour from the kimchee. It is my favorite food. Because we had also a long trip and we were hungry, it was delicious for us.
We arranged our luggage and started to climb up the mountain. At that time, it was raining and cold, but we decided to keep climbing it despite the wetness. Even though it was hard to climb the mountain because of the rain, I think that we made a good decision. It was so beautiful! We saw marvelous rocks that looked like the face of a man and a huge table. There were also a breathtaking valley and a big waterfall. There was a lot of water in the mountain. We could feel cool water.
I thought that I had not seen more beautiful things than these sights in my life. Mt. Sogumkang is beautiful, but I think I felt better because it was relaxing and comfortable without any busy schedule. I want to go to Mt. Sogumkang again.