Hikers ready! Fuji-san here we come...
I was totally ready with enough trail mix for everyone...YUMMY!
Here we are at the bottom. We started at station 5. (The top is station 10)
We started hiking around 11pm. About 30 minutes later was a beautiful scene of the lights of the city below. This picture really isn't that wonderful but I tried...
At station 6 there is a sign pointing to the summit...Laura and I searched for it..."Fuji-san summit, where are you?"
We made it to station 8 by sunrise (our group spit into two...those who could make it to the top and then us...those who wanted to die from altitude sickness!) We found some comfy rocks to sit on to watch the sunrise. It was still mostly dark when we sat down but here is the start of the sunrise...
And the sun continued to rise...
Then we actually made it to station 8 (our seats were about 10 feet below the station)
Station 8 is 3,100 meters up!
Then it was time to slide down. There was a long line both going up and going down...
The scene only got more beautiful as the sun rose...
but AHHHHH....be careful...don't fall down Fuji!
Overall it was a pretty miserable hike. The winds were hurricane level (ok, maybe not but I swear it was close.). The trail was like a pile of rocks dumped up the mountain in which you have to climb over. Here is a picture of part of the trail...
Pretty sure, with that wind, this was one of the most dangerous things I have ever done. To support my statement...2 people died on the mountain the same night as we climbed it! But the sunrise was beautiful and I am glad I did it! :)
I was totally ready with enough trail mix for everyone...YUMMY!
Here we are at the bottom. We started at station 5. (The top is station 10)
We started hiking around 11pm. About 30 minutes later was a beautiful scene of the lights of the city below. This picture really isn't that wonderful but I tried...
At station 6 there is a sign pointing to the summit...Laura and I searched for it..."Fuji-san summit, where are you?"
We made it to station 8 by sunrise (our group spit into two...those who could make it to the top and then us...those who wanted to die from altitude sickness!) We found some comfy rocks to sit on to watch the sunrise. It was still mostly dark when we sat down but here is the start of the sunrise...
And the sun continued to rise...
Then we actually made it to station 8 (our seats were about 10 feet below the station)
Station 8 is 3,100 meters up!
Then it was time to slide down. There was a long line both going up and going down...
The scene only got more beautiful as the sun rose...
but AHHHHH....be careful...don't fall down Fuji!
Overall it was a pretty miserable hike. The winds were hurricane level (ok, maybe not but I swear it was close.). The trail was like a pile of rocks dumped up the mountain in which you have to climb over. Here is a picture of part of the trail...
Pretty sure, with that wind, this was one of the most dangerous things I have ever done. To support my statement...2 people died on the mountain the same night as we climbed it! But the sunrise was beautiful and I am glad I did it! :)
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