Fuji-san

Kyoo okusan to Fuji-san ni noborimasu. (Today, my wife and I climb Mt. Fuji)

These are the 4 trails. Ours is the longest, Gotenba-guchi.

 The Japanese call it Fuji-san. (“-san” is a suffix added to people’s names when you address them. It is a sign of respect. They call Mt. Fuji by “Fuji-san” out of respect for this enduring symbol of Japan.) I am contemplating taking the video camera, but I am sure we will at least have our regular camera. I think we decided on the Gotenba-guchi trail which takes about 7 hours from the 5^th station. This is the trail with the Suna-bashiri trail on the way down. The Suna-bashiri is a sand slide made of volcanic ash and apparently it is like a 1500 meter sand dune that you can run down the whole way, taking giant 2 meter steps if you run. I have heard it is pretty exhilarating. We are definitely looking forward to that!

We’ll let you know how it was… 

(I was going to post this before we left but didn’t have time. Stay tuned for the full version of the story in the coming days. It’s already pretty long!) 

 

~ by Stephen on August 17, 2008.