Sweating profusely
19 March 2017
Hiking Shoushan and Chaishan in Kaohsiung
Astute readers will recall that the day before yesterday I tried to climb over the back of the small mountain between the ocean and Kaohsiung and ....
Cloudview
12 March 2017
Hiking up Zuocang in Hualien
For the last 3 days I have been looking at the mountain towering over the city of Hualien. So today despite it being covered in cloud, I decided t....
Coat day
8 March 2017
Climbing Yangmingshan in the rain
The day has finally come, the day where I get to wear my $2 convenience store raincoat. A great day indeed. I woke up and excitedly ran outside to....
One down
7 March 2017
Hiking Huangdidian near Shiding
First of all, in exciting news, my hotel has a self serve kitchen area with snacks, drinks and a coffee machine that also makes an awesome hot cho....
Now they are rubbish
9 November 2016
Hiking all the hills surrounding Kamakura
My last full day in Japan. Trump won, the internet, pollsters and forecasting supercomputers are wrong everytime now, brexit, UK election, trump. ....
Lets try that again
6 November 2016
Climbing the mountain at Omoshiroyama station near Sendai
As suggested yesterday, today I returned to the mountain I did not complete yesterday because I went the wrong way and instead removed skin from m....
White flag
5 November 2016
Hiking along the canyon from Omoshiroyama to Yamadera
Today I had to wave the white flag and retreat back down a mountain I did not even intend to climb. The plan was to go to a remote station with a ....
Running with the buses
2 November 2016
Hiking up the road at night for the view from Hakodateyama
As suggested earlier, it was time to go to the top of Mount Hakodate to do the tourist thing and take photos of the city lights. I thought to myse....
Dam it
1 November 2016
Walking from Jozankei Onsen to the nearby dam via a tunnel
Last full day in Sapporo, and thankfully no rain. I made my decision of where to go last night, should be easy to get there, there was a small hit....