There would also be a fair amount of people walking along or sitting out on the rocks beside the stream. A lot of my adult students also talked about hiking the mountain regularly. I'm not much into hiking and never did try to make it to the top.

Not far from Wonju, on the way to Moonmak, there area a couple of places along a fairly wide but shallow river – kind of like a big creek – where people go for picnics and the colleges in the area and businesses and whatnot hold retreats.

It was a good place to take a dip in the stream and have a cookout. It reminded me of a very similar place near where I grew up at the start of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. It made me wonder what kind of fishing the rivers around Wonju would have…

It was also during being farmed out to factories in the Moonmak area when I worked in Wonju from roughly 1996-98 that I saw Korean military units, including tanks, use public streets as part of their annual large scale exercises —- so that when 2002 rolled around, I could call BS to the tactic of expressing great outrage that USFK would even think to use armored vehicles on public roads and how that showed a clear disregard for the welfare of Korean citizens.