Cave art, 2021. 3/6. May-Jun

This was my 2nd or 3rd time up to Mt. Kobushi (甲武信岳kobushigatake).  I really like that mountain.

This guy was later seen tied to an anvil falling off a cliff.

Japan has a lot of really cool random things.

This isn't far from Takao.  It's on one of the side streets on the left between Takaosanguchi and the Odarumi Pass.  I think this is the Ukai Toriyama .  Very swanky kaiseki restaurant.  I walked by there after exiting the mountains.

Yamanashi

Saitama

I had had surgery on my cheek a week or so before I took this picture.  I had just had a golf-ball-size tumor removed.  Thank God, they got all the cancer!

For my birthday, I treated myself with a trip to Nikko to do one of the 100meizan (100 Famous Mountains), Mt. Nantai.

Back to Yamanashi

 

Cave art, 2021. 2/6. Mar-Apr

I tend to spend a lot of time in an area once I start.  Maria von Trapp may have wanted to climb every mountain but I want to climb every trail up every mountain.  

In the winter and early spring, I spent a fair amount of time in the corner of Yamanashi north of Mt. Daibosatsu around Mt. Kasatori.  There are some wonderful trails there.

 

Imagine my surprise when I came upon this!

I thought it was so cool that I returned a week later with this knife . . .

Those antlers are now on my wall.  They are one of my coolest possessions.

Up in Saitama a few days later

Back in Tokyo, near the Okutama Line in Ome.

This is a カモシカ(kamoshika).  That translates as serow.  I've only seen 3 or 4 them in all the times I've been in the woods.  Probably because they tend to not be found in areas where deer are present--and there are a lot of deer in Tokyo and Yamanashi.

Late afternoon hike.