beginning to trek up Jirisan

hiking, just beginning the climb on jirisan, lots of layers for this climb, december 2nd? 2011, warm start, and had snow roll in during the climb, nice chilly summit with limited visability. also did not need the huge packs for a day hike, dropped them to the side of the trail after lunch half way up by the temple, we were flying out the next day and needed to bring everything with us, bad decision, killed our legs!