Our weekend in Yamagata was a great success. Kanako, Yukiko, Isabelle, Arika and Renald joined me for 3 days of snowshoeing. We drove up on Friday night, arriving just before 2 am. Okuyama-san roused us early next morning for hot breakfast, and we then set off for our first snowshoe adventure.
Coming down steep slope Kanako lost one of her gloves, even though we all spent a good long time looking for it!
In the evening back at the lodge, Kanako and Yukiko made themselves comfortable…
The next day we did a long snowshoe hike, right up towards Gassan. The weather was brilliant, and the snow very white, so Renald and I got quite a tan.
To see all the photos, use this link:
http://www.malcomson.com/gallery/yamagatamar2005
GPS tracks of the hikes can be downloaded from here:
Gassan snowshoe GPX file
Gassan snowshoe Mapsource GDB file