Yake Dake hike / view up to large fumarole / on Burning Mountain
Afternoon fog from just above our hut in the Norikura highlands
We took the Tateyama High Route to where it was a short hike to timberline
Morning view from near Karamatsu-dake before we hiked down to the Happo o'ne ski area
A Raicho or Ptarmigan settles down for the night in the scrub timber
Ice and snow on and in pond in the Norikura highlands
Waterfall and pool on the lower slopes of Ontake
Spring in late June
Komakusa (Dicentra peregrina)
The Alpine Flower trail in the Norikura Highlands
A touch of fall color on the hike up to Karamatsu Peak
Black lily on the Alpine Flower trail in the Norikura Highlands
Looking over to Tsurugi-dake from the Karamatsu-dake chojo-sanso (summit hut)
Neighborhood Shinto shrine in Nakatsugawa
The large fumaroles near the top of Yake Dake
Neighborhood pond on the edge of Nakatsugawa
Raindrops on a flower in Junko's parents place in Nakatsugawa
Stone statue in a neighborhood shrine below a giant cherry tree in Nakatsugawa
Morning light on the crest viewed from a hill above the hut
Fog runs
Traditional Gasho style house near Gero Onsen
Afternoon view from Karamatsu-dake
The Brocken Spectre is a type of glory that occurs when a halo-like ring circles the upper part of your shadow
Looking north from Karamatsu Peak in the Northern Japan Alps
Evening light from the hut
Tsurugi-dake and Tateyama-dake
A Brocken spectre light phenomenon on a steep section of ridge with chains south of Karamatsu-dake.
Mount Tateyama in the morning
Toward Goryu on the way down
A hint of fall
Para-glider below the fog
Fall color reach
Balanced rock stone in the back yard of the family home
Master wood carving at a shrine near the top of Minobusan
Shrine on the trail through the trees to Minobusan
Buddha at Minobusan
Nagoya shrine
Looking down at the tram terminal from a loop hike to Hokan-dake
Nezamenotoko along the Kiso River
Matsumoto Castle
Backyard action
Tsukechi-kyo
Unidentified fruit
It's fun to see beer in vending machines
Home on the Nakasendo
Family garden
Along the Nakasendo in Magome
Crossing a snowbank on the way down from Ontake summit to Nino-ike
Stone statues on the edge of Nino-ike (pond) in the crater of Ontake in 2012. A phreatic eruption in 2014 changed the dimensions of this lake, the highest elevation lake in Japan.
Junko and Hiroko on the edge of Nino-ike
Butterfly in the family back yard
Local shrine along the Nakasendo
Kumazasa, a species of bamboo grass, near the top of Fujimidai
It took a bus through a tunnel, a cog railway, and a a tram to get here
Yuko, Shinichi, and Junko
Backyard butterfly
Tram view
Nezamenotoko on the Kiso River
Local shrine
Butterfly landing
Among the pads
Afternoon light
Under the cherry tree
Fall color and fog
The rock is a venerated god
Looking over toward Karamatsu-dake from Kotomiyama
Family garden
Side slope flowers
Japanese maple
Ferns
Forest waterfall and shrine
Nakasendo shrine statue
The stairs to the rock
Waterfall
Nachi falls and pagoda
Mount Fuji above the clouds from the airplane
Fall color tunnel