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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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