Cave art, 2021. 5/6. Sep-Oct

This is Tokyo.  This was a day of "hikeling."

I seem to remember the weather was only good for about 5 minutes this day.  Good enough for a beautiful pic.

One of the highlights of the year was this overnight to Kitadake, the second highest peak in Japan.

 

Cave art, 2021. 4/6. Jul-Aug

As hard as it may be to believe, this is in Tokyo.

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Venison.  It's what's for dinner.

Such a beautiful area around Bandai in Fukushima

Just south of Daibosatsurei in Yamanashi

Early in the year, when I was diagnosed with cancer was learning that I'd be undergoing surgery, I made a promise to myself to climb Fuji before the end of the year.  

It wasn't as much a Herculean task as I thought, evidently.  Before my operation in June, I asked my surgeon if he thought it would be possible for me to climb it after the surgery.  He said "No.  The climbing season doesn't start until July.  You'll have to wait until then."

Back to Saitama to Mt Ryokami

If you want to see something gross, look at the post of this trip that started and ended at Lake Miyagase.  You can see leeches sucking the blood out of me.  

https://mymancaveisthemountains.blogspot.com/2021/08/if-theres-anything-in-world-i-hate-its.html

This is only about 2 or 3 miles from home.  

Chichibu

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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.

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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.

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