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.
I made it in 9 hours
5 June 2016
Hiking up Zugspitze via the Reintal route
It was a long fun day. Opinions were mixed on if climbing the highest mountain in Germany, Zugspitze (2962m), was possible so early in the season.....
Other people
23 November 2015
Hiking Mount Homan in Dazaifu
Its a national holiday, theres only one mountain of note that people living here go to, its peak leaf season, the internet warned of jam packed tr....