The Japanese Southern Alps: Mount Kita to Mount Tekari – 南アルプス大縦走：北岳から光岳まで。

Hello again everybody, Alex here. As always I’ve been fairly caught up in real life affairs, but thought I’d finally get around to updating this with a rather large post that covers one of my biggest trips from last year: The Southern Alps – where I completed 7 of the Hundred Famous Mountains over a

Mount Haku (白山) – Hyakumeizan #37

Hello again friends, Alex here. This time I’ll be covering a small(ish) trip up the second of the three “holy” mountains of Japan: Mount Haku. Standing at 2,702m it is the smallest of the three, with Tateyama (立山) at 3,015m and Mount Fuji (富士山) at 3,776m. Regardless, following a shuttle bus up to the “starting”

Mount Amakazari, Hiuchi and Myoko (雨飾山、火打山と妙高山の縦走）- Hyakumeizan #34-36.

Hello again friends, Alex here. This mountain entry, or entries in this case (as it covers three Hyakumeizan and 5 major “peaks” all in all), cover the journey I took immediately after Mount Kashimayari, with Mount Amakazari, Mount Hiuchi and Mount Myoko all being areas I wanted to call in at for this trip. Alongside

Northern Alps: Mount Kashimayari (鹿島槍ヶ岳) – Hyakumeizan #33

Hello again friends, Alex here. This journey was quite a long one on the 3rd of July from last year, starting with Mount Kashimayari, then proceeding on afterwards to a different series of mountains that I will cover in a separate post. Those of you familiar with Japan’s seasons will also be aware that July

Northern Alps: Mount Yake (焼岳)- Hyakumeizan #32

Hello friends, it’s been an awfully long time on account of a variety of personal issues, but I’ve finally decided to get around to updating the blog with a massive backlog of mountains from June 2021 onwards. There’s a good 20 or so individual peaks that I aimed for with countless along the way so

Mount Hotaka: Hyakumeizan #31 – Two day trip in the Northern Alps featuring snow (again) (25.05.2021): 奥穂高岳「日本第三最高峰」

Hello again everybody, it’s me once more. This time we’ll be going into the Northern Alps again, but with a much larger objective as a target: The joint-third tallest mountain in Japan: Mount (oku)-Hotaka (3,190m). There are a number of routes that one can access Mount Hotaka, but with it still being the snow season

Northern Alps Day Trip: Mount Jōnen (常念岳): Hyakumeizan #30 (14/05/21)

Hello again everybody, Alex back again with another mountain blog post. This time I’ll cover a quick day trip mountain, rather than a series: venturing out to Mount Jōnen: one of the Easternmost mountains within the Northern Alps. At 2,857 metres elevation, it acts as an excellent vantage point to observe the Hotaka-Yari ridgeline to

Return to the Southern Alps Part 2: Traverse to Mount Kaikoma (甲斐駒ヶ岳): Hyakumeizan#29. 19/04/21-20/04/21

Hello again everybody, Alex here. This is part two of the previous Southern Alps entry (found here: https://alexsmountainsblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/return-to-the-southern-alps-part-1-two-of-the-three-peaks-of-hoo-mount-yakushi-and-kannon-%e9%b3%b3%e5%87%b0%e4%b8%89%e5%b1%b1%ef%bc%9a%e8%96%ac%e5%b8%ab%e5%b2%b3%e3%81%a8%e8%a6%b3%e9%9f%b3/) In this entry we’ll be continuing on from just past Mount Kannon that I reached in the morning of day two, with a rather long day ahead of us moving towards an area known as Sensui-goya (仙水小屋)

Comeback following hiatus! Utsukushigahara (美ヶ原): Hyakumeizan #27. 20/03/21

Hello everybody, it’s Alex again. This is the first “mountain” that I tackled after a brief hiatus following my disastrous attempt at Mt. Miyanoura back in January that resulted in me being stranded/needing rescuing. Consequently, the “mountain” that I set out to stroll up on this day only had a meagre 300 metres or so

Mount Tsukuba (筑波山): Hyakumeizan #20. 11/12/20

Hello everybody, long time no see. I thought I’d update this with one of my one-day trips I did back at the beginning of December – the twin peaks of the Purple Mountain – Mount Tsukuba over in Ibaraki Prefecture next to Tokyo city. The twin peaks are split between “Female” and “Male” peaks (Nyotai-san