Ashibetsudake (1727) 芦別岳

This is a fairly long climb if you go up the old (kyudo) course (on the right on the map).  It takes about 4 hours to get to the ridge line and then you hike along the ridge to Ashibetsudake, which is another 3 or 4 hours.  Going down the new (shindo) course (on the left on the map) is a relatively quick 3 hours.  Doing the route the other way would be 5 hours up and 6 hours down.  While Ashibetsudake is somewhat smaller than many peaks in the Taisetsuzan range, you start from a much lower elevation. 

Access:  You need to head west just south of Furano, right by Yamabe station.  There's an old campground.  The shindo course is easy to find, right by the entrance of the campground. It's where most people start climbing.  The kyudo course is a few hundred meters to the right and it's not well sign posted.  Learn the kanji for kyudo course (旧道コース) and you should be ok.  The path does fork close to the start.  Head straight and don't turn to the right.  After that you go straight up the mountain.  After a few kilometers there's a place where you can turn left and go to a hut on a path the joins the shindo course. Or continue straight up to the ridge and then left to Ashibetsudake.  At the campground center house you can get a fairly good map of the course.