Mostly Japanese Mountains: Mt. Yokoo

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This is a boring post. Feel free to skip it.

I'm only putting it up for my own record.

Area:

Kawakami, Minamisaku, Nagano/Hokuto City, Yamanashi

Location:

Map: ***The Caveman is giving up on posting links to Yama to Kogen maps. They go out of date after a year or so and the links die. If you want a link to their latest map, comment and I'll get you a link to their latest map of the area.

Online printable topo map

Starting and stopping point:

Shinshu Pass

Peaks bagged:

Yokoo (横尾山)

(First-time) peaks # 940

Getting there/getting around:

There is a parking lot for about 5 cars at the pass.

Helpful Info

Weather Information:

Mt. Yokoo weather

Time and distance

Total Time: 2:48 Break time: :11 Distance: 7.28 km

Elevation: Lowest: 1,466 m Highest: 1,818 m Total Ascent: 568 m Total Descent: 568 m

Technical considerations/difficulty:

Not many ropes or chains. Nothing really dangerous. The trail has many areas of high grass and/or sasa (bamboo grass). This makes the trail hard to see sometimes and on a day like this one when there had been some rain really makes your feet wet.

Facilities:

Nothing

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houghts/observations/recommendations:

This is one of Yamanashi's 100 Famous Mountains. I know you can see Fuji on a clear day. Unfortunately, I did not see much of anything on this hike.

The hike from Shinshu Pass to Yokoo isn't that taxing and would be nice on a clear day.

Sorry if the next few pictures are too busy.

I wanted to connect the dots with a hike I'd made two months earlier from Hisawa Pass to the west to Tofu Rock so I went as far as Tofu Rock on this particular hike. I wouldn't recommend doing that--unless you have some O.C.-type desire like I do to connect the dots. The trail between Mt. Yokoo and the two Mori mountains to the west is a bit of a slog.