Mountain Climbing Life VOL 758: Traversing Kagoshima Prefecture, Visiting Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains and First-Order Triangulation Points, Part 1: Itinerary
I have been looking back on my mountain diary, which I started recording on September 23, 1969, on my blog for the past four years. This series, 'Mountain Climbing Life,' began two years ago.
In the year I started my second life, I have been continuing to visit Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains and first-order triangulation points.
After completing the 100 Famous Mountains of Japan two years ago in September, I have resumed visiting the 100 Famous Mountains of Kyushu.
I have entered Kagoshima Prefecture once again.
I have climbed five of the old Kyushu 100 Famous Mountains, leaving only three in Nagasaki Prefecture.
No. 942: From traversing Kagoshima Prefecture to Gokanosho and the longest stone steps in Japan
October 31 – November 3, 2009: Solo
10/31: Entered Yoshida-cho, Kagoshima-gun, and slept in the car by the forest road.
11/01: In light rain, I climbed the first-order triangulation point on the border of Kagoshima City and Yoshida-cho, 'Muregaoka (44th mountain, 552.3m)'
and then...
I moved near Hirakawa Zoological Park and headed toEboshidake (93rd mountain, 522m, one of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains).
I then moved to the southwestern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula to
Nomadake (45th mountain, first-order triangulation point; 94th mountain, 591.1m, one of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains).
I headed north to the sacred mountain of Minamisatsuma,Kinposan (95th mountain, 636.3m, one of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains),,
and continued north toKanmuridake (96th mountain, 516.4m, one of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains),,
and to the source of the Kotsuki River in Kagoshima City,Yaeyama (46th mountain, 676.8m, first-order triangulation point).
In one day, I climbed three first-order triangulation points and four (effectively six) of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains.
I slept in my car on a forest road on the Kagoshima-Kumamoto prefectural border to prepare for the next day.
11/02: I climbed
Yahazudake (47th mountain, first-order triangulation point; 97th mountain, 687.3m, one of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains) on the border of Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and with this, only three mountains in Nagasaki Prefecture remain for the 1992 version of Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains.
I headed north to Kuma Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, and after climbingKunimidake (48th mountain, 969.3m, first-order triangulation point), I continued on.
Moving to Itsuki Village and being tossed about by the navigation system,
somehowI stood on Mt. Shirahige (49th mountain, first-order triangulation point 1244.3m).
Crossing the Kobetsu Pass into Misato Town, I bathed at Samata no Yu,
and stayed overnight in my car at the Chuo Town Observatory.
11/3 Departing from the first-order triangulation points and Kyushu's 100 Famous Mountains,
I went up and down the 3333 stone steps of Shakain at Mt. Daigyoji, a challenge I had wanted to take on for a long time.
And with that, I finished this mountain journey.