I had read all about this mountain and was extremely keen to climb it. Probably just 3 minutes in, I was already completely drenched in sweat, mostly due to the start being extremely humid and somewhat like a rainforest. The rest of the hike was mostly scrambling over slippery, mossy rocks. So I didn’t really think it was the mostly relaxing hike.
Climbing up to the halfway point had a good view and I was keen to get to the top to see the gold.
I finally reached the top 1h40m later and was extremely disappointed. Bloody clouds.
This is where I had hyped up my expectations so much that if it wasn’t anything but perfect it would be bad. And this was terrible. Not a single bit of blue sky, drenched head to toe in sweat and to top it off, it started raining at the top…
I stayed up there for roughly 40mins waiting for a break in the clouds but it wasn’t coming… I went back down. Needless to say, I didn’t take any more photos at the top. To top it all off, right near the bottom I managed to kick a little stub of a tree that was semi obstructing the path.
Even better was my tent was soaked. Oh well, you can’t win them all and at least the campsite was good and free.
Cycling Around Japan 