Skiing in Korea

New Year's Day we drove two hours to a ski resort and did some night skiing.  It was different enough from the States that I thought it deserved a blog post.  I guess we're spoiled with our skiing because these things seemed pretty odd:

• Pay by-the-hour for lift tickets.  Our three hours of skiing cost $35.
• The lifts run 24 hours a day, except for 4-7am and 5-7pm when new snow is made/blown and the mountain is groomed.
• All man-made snow, but surprisingly good quality.  It wasn't too icy or too wet.
• The potential to be way too crowded, which was our incentive to do night skiing on a Sunday night.  There are three quad lifts running parallel to one another up the mountain but they all pick up and drop off within 100 yards of one another!  
• To board the chairlift, we skiied onto a conveyor belt that lined us up for our chair.  I bet these are common in places with man-made snow, but it surprised me the first time.

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Trail Map of Konjiam Resort.

We're hoping to ski at Whistler next winter-  now that's how it's done.