Mt
                  KUMOTORI of the snow (one night two
                  days)
            
            In April, (fine
                  weather). 
            I went to OKUTAMA
                  soon when I went out of the workplace at 12
                  o'clock. Though it is supposed to be fine, the wind
                  is indifferent to desperation with the weather
                  forecast. I tighten 'It is cold.' and the mind
                  because I was speaking to 'The ice formed this
                  morning in the bucket.' in the gas station of
                  ENZAN. I park the car in the YANAGISAWA pass of
                  Route 411, and eat 2 rice balls of the lunch and
                  the sausage. It is restless somehow, and it is
                  worried about the indigestion. After that, though I
                  run through the OUME road, the entrance of the
                  USIROYAMA path through a forest doesn't appear
                  easily. I passed without turning though the path
                  through a forest entrance appeared when I thought
                  "Did I pass the turning?". I arrived at the end
                  when it went back a little and turned in the acute
                  angle and it ran through the thin dangerous gravel
                  way 8.6km. The right becomes a mountain, and the
                  left is the valley, and it is the sudden cliff.
                  About 10 cars can seem to be put though there is no
                  parking lot and it is the shoulder of a road. I
                  parked in the safe place though I put it for one
                  night.  
            I left at 14:40. It
                  felt surprisingly light though the pack was a
                  certain possibility more than 20kg. I became hard
                  soon to SANJYOUNOYU though it was the possibility
                  of the easy distance. I have already been limit
                  condition though I passed through SANJYOUNOYU at
                  15:10. The condition that I sit down in every
                  5-minute-10 minutes from there lasts, and I don't
                  reach the divergence to the AOIWA cave which must
                  be here soon in the place at last, either. Though I
                  thought whether I intended to stop it, I am
                  returned to the place as well to draw the tent
                  without place as well to draw the tent, and it is
                  shameful to meet the person of SANJYOUNOYU, too.
                   
            I walked like a
                  tortoise in the severe place where I decided to
                  lower the pace and climbed it specially. Though the
                  left-right shoes seemed to stick, the number of
                  times of the rest became it decreased and it can
                  walked in succession, too. On the way, I pass the
                  old man's married couple. I attach crampons because
                  the snow and the ice appeared. Though even the one
                  without crampons can climb it, the place where the
                  rock freezes is very terrible. After that, I
                  understand the crampons installation when I notice
                  that the big towel which I wound around the neck
                  freezes hard and good, too. The foot felt the pain
                  which was resistant to the left knee with the shock
                  with crampons when it got over the big rock though
                  it didn't slide and it was stable. If the rest came
                  and thought, it is said that I hurt the left knee
                  at this time. It doesn't become encouragement very
                  much because it doesn't know the height above sea
                  level of SANJYOHDARUMI though the little plate
                  which shows the height above sea level in the
                  roadside is being put. I wrote it with the place
                  "The ridge without water" where I was taking out
                  the map and I was walking when I try to see it, and
                  I became I felt uneasy all the more. The place to
                  draw the tent for the first time when I proceed
                  appeared with seeing the valley in the right.
                   
            That was
                  SANJYOHDARUMI. Mt FUJI can be seen clearly in the
                  circumference in the distance though it has already
                  been dark because it is 18:30. The scrap of the
                  tape string and the pin were lying, and I
                  considered that there were many people who drew the
                  tent here. I turned on the head lamp, and
                  constructed the tent at once. I poured the instant
                  curry on the rice, and ate, and put some sugar in
                  the soup after that, and drank. After the breath
                  was stuck, I collected the snow riding on the leaf
                  of the bamboo grass in the pot. I was careful not
                  to fall from the cliff because I disappeared like
                  UEMURANAOMI when I fell here. I put it in the
                  canteen after I warmed the pot and melted the snow
                  and passed through the filter. I took out the
                  sleeping bag, and laid myself down, and heard
                  good-bye defeat of GIANTS on the radio. I report
                  the weather forecast with the "Coldness of the
                  season disconnection", and the thermometer shows
                  -10 degrees. Though I decide to sleep at 22:30, it
                  is cold, and I can't sleep easily. Though the star
                  was neat when I saw the outside, it was
                  disappointing that there was light light in Mt FUJI
                  direction. It is inevitable because the large tent
                  is heavy though it is the condition that the top of
                  the head of the little dome pattern tent is small
                  and almost and only sleep. I was moving the foot in
                  the sleeping bag because it was cold in the bottom
                  from the waist.  
            The second-day
                  (fine weather). 
            I was surprised
                  because the inside whole surface of the tent froze
                  though I got up at 4:50. The ice of a thickness 1cm
                  forms in the water which I made yesterday, and the
                  thermometer is -4 degrees. I light burner, and put
                  it in the tent. I make much tea, and three sheets
                  of 2's eat the cookie as a breakfast. Because there
                  is no appetite, you will have to use the mind for
                  breakfast and behavior food more. Because it is
                  still cold in the outside, I put on my rainwear
                  with top and bottom as well. It is bulky, and I
                  don't go into the bag easily because it freezes
                  though the tent is stored after it goes outside. I
                  think what to do in the mountain during the winter.
                   
            To begin to walk,
                  5:50. Though the ridge of the sudden bamboo grass
                  wood climbs it, I remember yesterday's thing, and
                  climb it slowly like a tortoise. There was a
                  footprint for 3 people on the snow which
                  accumulated about 10cm. There was a point like the
                  slide of the ice, too, and became ice wall climbing
                  the mountain in the middle. When the morning sun
                  shines and turn around refreshingly, I can see
                  Zig-Zag of the snow-covered road, and seems to be
                  mountain during the winter climbing the mountain.
                   
            I arrive at the
                  summit of a mountain of Mt KUMOTORI at 6:55. Though
                  there was a cloud upward, I could see the
                  surrounding mountains in such cases as Mt FUJI. I
                  put the pack on the bench of the refuge hut, and
                  took a picture, and took the data with GPS. If I
                  was drinking tea in front of the hut, the door
                  opened suddenly, and I was surprised that the man
                  came out. When there were a large earth floor and a
                  room of the board and I compared it with tent
                  Tomari, I could make cooking in the earth floor,
                  and the mat and the sleeping bag slept besides the
                  board tension, and a feeling of the inside of the
                  hut seemed to be fine, too.  
            I begin to come
                  down at 7:50. Though I go down slowly, I memorize
                  the pain in the left knee, and the foot is uneasy.
                  The crampons of the right foot tends to come off,
                  and troublesome though I go down with being careful
                  by one step one step. It comes off soon though I
                  walk with tightening it many times and again. I
                  passed through SANJYOHDARUMI yesterday in 25
                  minutes. Because the foot has a bit of a limp line,
                  traversing to Mt HIRYUU is decided to be given
                  through a way to give it up and which I climbed
                  yesterday. The left knee was as much as the voice
                  came out naturally when it wasn't bent and it
                  turned. It is advanced only slowly in the sudden
                  descent because the knee turns though it became a
                  little easy when I removed crampons. I pass the
                  party of 5-6 sets. Though I just just drink the
                  water, the water which I dissolved the snow in is
                  dust smell. As for reaching SANJYOUNOYU at last
                  somehow, 10:20. I put the pack, and take off my
                  rainwear, and take a short rest. It seems that it
                  can't walk any more if I don't go down early though
                  I thought that it was good to go into the hot
                  spring, too. The way isn't avoided well because the
                  left foot isn't raised when I pass each other
                  though it wasn't so rugged as to think of it when I
                  climb it. I troubled them. I proceeded, and I could
                  finally see the car with being careful not to fall
                  into the valley by one step one step.  
            I arrive at my car
                  at 11:5. Fishing seems to be an old man though
                  there are some young people of mountain stream
                  fishing. Even if the shoes were put on and it was
                  changed, the pain of the foot was the condition
                  that it didn't change and it could hardly walk.
                  Because it is automatic, my car runs lightly only
                  in the right foot. Though I came home at 14:20, the                  stairs of home were surprised that I couldn't climb
                  it. Because the left knee doesn't turn, the left
                  shoes aren't put on the step.  
            (Mt KUMOTORI
                  =2017.7m)
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