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No.09



Mt IWAKI of the wind and rain.(Half day)

In July, (rain).

I leave the house of AKITA at 5:50. I go together today with MITCHY, too. Though in fact I intended to climb Mt AKITAKOMAGATAKE, I changed it to Mt IWAKI climbing the mountain for the weather forecast of the thunderstorm. The inside of the rain goes to MORIOKA in Route 46, and go into the descent of Tohoku way. The rain which is sometimes strong blows on the expressway as well. It runs about 140km, and gets off at the OHWANIECHIZEN interchange, and passes the road for agriculture of "APPLE ROAD" from there, and passes through the front of Mt IWAKI shrine. The circumference from those days is wrapped in the mist, and a little the points are the conditions which can be hard to see, too. After that, I write "The lift is suspension of the service because of the bad weather." in the gate of Mt IWAKI expressway. It is the 8/10 point when I pay 1750 yen and 68 turn at the hairpin curve. There is hardly a car though I arrived at the parking lot of the 8/10 point at 8:55. One mountaineer puts on the rainwear, and shoulder the big pack.

As for itself, only the jacket of GORE put on the pink rainwear of KUROBE-DAM with MITCHY. As for going into the mountain trail, 9:17. It is the mountain trail which I walk in easily though it is narrow. Though MITCHY went freely first, my sweat blew and came out. Because the "sweat waterfall sickness" is improper when I get sick, I open the front of the jacket greatly, and climb it slowly. I can sometimes look over the bottom more though it doesn't seem to be far because the mist appears. It is good that it isn't hot, either, because it is good that there is no insect and the sunlight doesn't hit it though it is rainy. It becomes windy when I pass around the lift at 9:43. The rain mixes very much, too. It became intense here because the obstacle was used up though I was anxious about neither the wind nor the rain because I was in the wood. The way becomes a rocky place, too, and we seem to be blown off in the ridge. Though it is not a word, MITCHY does its best, and climbs it. Though I pass 10 pilgrimages in the middle of the rocky place, it falls under the condition that the whole body is wet without both rainwear and the mountain-climbing boots. I go ahead of two mountaineers halfway. Though the left hand doesn't seem to move one person, he does his best, and he is climbing it.

We arrive at the summit of a mountain at 10:15. The person was sitting in the glass window of the building of the stone construction, and I was surprised. It is uncanny though I sell something in the shrine. It seems to be because the pilgrimage climbs it. The neighborhood of the summit of a mountain is dripping wet without the rainwear having been any longer under the heavy rain condition. The shrine is on the north side at the top, and MITCHY says that I will visit. Though I severed it 'It is unpleasant.', she said 'Let's visit for MARKUN.', and I understood it. I threw five yen coin in the offertory box, and put it. Two people of a short time have taken a rest since we go into the refuge hut after we sometimes take the climbing to the summit souvenir picture. We sat on the chair, and took out the stove, and boiled the hot water. It may be handy though the cup Chinese noodles are insipid. I eat soon, and the taste is stable, too, and the pot becomes dirty less much than what in it. MITCHY seems to be glad that she could climb it, and she is a smile. But, we can't もし so freely because I deposit MARKUN in the parents' house.

We leave the refuge hut at 11:05, and hang on the descent. MITCHY goes down cheerfully and freely rather than I thought of it. I call it to be careful of the foot from behind because it is too fast. Her pace went down to her when we went from around the lift station into the wood though it seemed to be promising because the pace was early as much as to go ahead of the couple of the point in the middle of the rocky place. She is the condition that it is exhausted. Her knee is shaking. I walked with saying "Be careful of the foot over and again, and get off slowly." to her and waiting for that her coming down. I arrive at the car of me in the parking lot of the 8/10 point at 11:55.

Because it was worried about the thing of MARKUN which I deposited in the parents' house, we hurried, and did the preparation, and left behind the parking lot at 12:10. I drove fast, and came home in the house of AKITA at 15:10 as much as to renew the worst fuel consumption rate. MARKUN slept quietly without knowing our anxiety. It is disappointing that it was rainy because it is said that I could hope for the excellent view if it was fine. I thought that we were allowed to be able to climb it this time because it was on the book which I read after returning home "Mt IWAKI is the famous mountain of Japanese 100.".

(Mt IWAKI =1624.7m).



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