By GI Korea on December 12th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Snow Capped Mountains In Korea

The Baekdu Mountain range (Neung-gyeong peak, and Daegwallyeong and Seonjaryeong mountain passes) creates a white spectacle following the heavy snow Thursday.

Via KBS Global.

• kushibo
  3:39 pm on December 12th, 2011 1

  Hmm… that is looking more like California, where there is a wide range between the lower and upper elevations, such that snow is usually seen up in the mountains but not down in the city.

  By contrast, in Korea when it is cold enough (especially in December) to snow on the mountains it’s usually cold enough to snow (and remain for a while) in the lower cities.

  Anyway, I see your snow-capped mountains in Korea, and raise you one snow-capped peak in Hawaii.

• Teadrinker
  4:58 pm on December 12th, 2011 2

  #1,

  Are you really going to play that game?

  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Moraine_Lake_17092005.jpg

• kushibo
  7:03 pm on December 12th, 2011 3

  That’s a beautiful picture, Teadrinker, but my point was not in bringing up something more breathtaking than GI Korea’s picture, but something more unusual.

  Isn’t snow in Canada a nine-month-per-year phenomenon? Not so in tropical Hawaii, where people are surprised to hear it snows at all.

• Conway Eastwood
  7:11 am on December 13th, 2011 4

  The Apateus ruin it.

• Teadrinker
  9:30 am on December 13th, 2011 5

  #3,

  Don’t take everything so literally. It was a joke.

• ChickenHead
  10:14 am on December 13th, 2011 6

  I want to play that game!

  Here is my beautiful picture of Canada… except mine has wildlife.

  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zb4IfpeOAho/Tq6889sxHnI/AAAAAAAALoA/kcEcn97M8VE/s1600/tmp.jpg

• kushibo
  2:39 pm on December 13th, 2011 7

  … and except that’s Russia.

• ChickenHead
  3:45 pm on December 13th, 2011 8

  Nice try, Kushibo…

  At first glance, the trash doesn’t seem very Russian… not enough bottles, perhaps… and some North American-style packaging.

  The very blurry examples of writing don’t seem to be Cyrillic… nor are the presented in typical Russian style.

  And the Photoshop metadata is in inches… not very Russiany.

  This isn’t to say I am right and you are wrong… as I don’t know… but I suspect it is not Russia.

  That, of course, doesn’t mean it is Canada…

  …but then nothing spoils a joke like over-thinking…

  …assuming it was funny enough to rank as a joke to begin with.

• kushibo
  4:02 pm on December 13th, 2011 9

  CH, I’ll bet you $10,000 that’s not Canada. Or your bar, whichever. I’ve always wanted to win a bar in a bet.

• MTB Rider
  5:04 pm on December 13th, 2011 10

  My guess would be Alaska. Not Russia, not Canada. Maybe Norway? Sweden? Finland?

  That green package is probably the key clue.

• Glans
  7:53 pm on December 13th, 2011 11

  If language isn’t unique to humans, you can just ask the bears their nationality.

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