No smog yes people
29 October 2016
Hiking Mount Moiwa in Sapporo
It is cold, and incredibly windy. Things are blowing down the street, I hope the wind stops soon. Because of the wind, a small mountain was the or....
Canyon mountain
27 October 2016
Hiking Mount Hiei in Kyoto using public transport
After spending some time researching I had selected my Kyoto mountain. There are not huge mountains near Kyoto but there are mountains, I chose wh....
Racing the rain that never was
25 October 2016
Hiking Shiritakayama in Kanazawa
The weather forecast was not good. Rain all day. I originally planned to climb Hakusan, Japan's third most sacred mountain after Fuji and Tate. Ho....
Volcanic gas panic
23 October 2016
Climbing Tateyama on the Kurobe alpine route
Today I climbed one of Japans 3 sacred mountains located on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The alpine route goes from Toyama, across, above and....
It happened again
21 October 2016
Hiking the hills behind Zenkoji
I really only intended to visit the big Temple. The Zenkoji temple is the main attraction in Nagano, so I thought I had better go take a look at t....
Not too early for color
20 October 2016
Taking the bus from Nagano to Togakushi
Apparently the colorful leaf season hysteria does not start for weeks. No one told the place I went to today. Because of colorful leaves, lots of ....
I saw it!
18 October 2016
Hiking Shimoyama from Mitsutoge to Kawaguchiko
Today was long, I got lost, but I got to see Mount Fuji. I have never seen it before. I did not climb it, if I tried I would be arrested and depor....
Record saturation
9 June 2016
I got completely lost and saturated on a hike near Salzburg
I have achieved a new record in the level of saturation achieved. Despite dire warnings of flash flooding and constant rain, I decided mountain cl....
Thousands of flying creatures
7 June 2016
Hiking Patscherkofel in Innsbruck
Somehow I deleted what I wrote here? No idea how. Oh well. I think it spoke about how I climbed the mountain swatting at various bugs.