from 13/02/21 to 14/02/21
Participants: S.H ( chief leader) R.M, T.N (Record)
Climbing Records:
(First day)
at 2:00am Youkaichi City Hall→ 6:40am Mt. Akadake mountain lodge parking area →8:40am (Gyosha) mountain hut(mountain lodge), built camping there→9:20am starts climbing →9:50Mt. Amidadake Branch point→10:30 Mt. Amidadake Hokuryo→12:30 Top of the Mt. Amidadake (summit point) →13:00 start climbing down (Nakadakezawa) →arrived the Gyosha hut point.
(second day)
at 5:00am start climbing from Gyosha hut point →6:12 head of Jizou → 7:07mountain lodge at summit of the Mt. Akadake → 7:09 Top of the Mt. Akadake (summit point)→7:36 branch point of the peak of the Ryuutou →7:53 Ridge of the Bunzaburo →8:41 branch of the Mt. Amidadake → arrived to the mountain lodge( Gyosha) → collection of the camping tents →10:08 middle of the Gyosha mountain lodge →10:54 Mt. Akadake(mountain lodge) →16:10 come back to Youkaichi City Hall
(First day)
Let’s heading to Mt. Yatsugatake!! I am so excited!! We could meet up at the right time! “Oh,,, I forgot my helmet.. what to do..” by T.N
I felt sorry for that coming back to my home and pick up my helmet. Thank you so much..
we managed to arrive earlier at the staring point at Mt. Akadake.
ready for climbing. I think I became nervous by feeling heavier my backpack on my shoulder.
Compare to other years, there was much less snow, so we didn’t need to wear crampons until we reached to the Gyosha mountain lodge.
we supposed to head to the summit of the Mt. Akadake but we could reach the mountain lodge more than 1 hour earlier, and the weather was amazingly sunny, so we decided to head to the Mt. Amidadake Hokuryo first.
“We finished to built the camping site, fitting the gears”
from branch of Mt. Amida dake, we go through the forest area. We had to keep climbing up for the Steep slopes, I could not keep up with S.H chief leader. He helped me to carry my ropes. (Thank you so much)
after the forest area, I could see open beautiful view, I feel better.
but there were more steep slopes and more risky mountain ridges. I had keep concentrate to climbing.
“The snow was not enough good condition to walk “
I felt very tired, but by each one step, finally could see the ridge of a cliff!
This is the point for the rock climbing.
“ finally the ridge of the cliff!”
For the first pitch was leading by Mr. M.
and next turn was me, I was so happy to do the rock climbing finally because we walked so long in the melting wet snow.
“ Mr. M climbing as lead climbing. or Mr.H for the second pitch?”
It’s so warm. or just hot?
People said that never happen like this before, this temperature at mild of winter Mt. Yatsugatake.
the climbing level was not so high one, so I could climb well.
For the second pitch, Mr. H did the lead climbing. Some parts was like “knife ridges” . but we manage to climb.
“Belay by Mr. M at second pitch”
“me looking excited at knife ridge “
“Belay by Mr. H. I learned this belay style at Mt.Nishiho”
We finished the rock ridge climbing for 2 pitches. We are almost there for the summit!
whenever I tried to take pictures, they always posing funny way. hehe
around this point, I felt exhausted. I could not walk well.
and finally, we reached to the summit of the Mt. Amidadake!
Superb scenery over there!! more than I have expected.
I could not holding my tears, I was very impressed for the views.
over the horizon, there were Mt. Fuji, Central Apls, North Apls.
I felt shame to let them see my tears,,
“behind the sunglasses, I am actually crying”
Felt with fulfillment, impressions
took pictures with team mates
We had enjoyed the views at summit, we started to climbing down.
Untill the Mt. Nakadake Col, I had to concentrate again. I got some advice for climbing down skills and managed to come back to the camping site at 14:00.
“Yess, We had good day today”
“Signature Blue for the Mt. Akadake and Mt. Yatsugatake”
next chapter is… the third challenging things happens…
To be continued for the next post