nature

  • Mount Hiuchi, Mount Myoko

    Finally, with the first hints of summer’s disappearance, I managed to get out into the mountains once again – on a relatively short but nevertheless momentous hike. If I could explain it in the simplest terms, it was quite yin and yang, or rather the first day, up to Hiuchi san and the beautiful campsite…

    Mount Hiuchi, Mount Myoko
  • Yatsugatake Grand Traverse

    From the 4th to the 7th of June, I spent four days hiking along the peaks of the Yatsugatake range, a beautiful if not every well known (at least among foreigners, that is) series of ancient volcanic mountaintops nestled between the Southern Alps, Mount Fuji and the Okutama mountains. Topping out between 2500 and 2900…

    Yatsugatake Grand Traverse