It’s not the season, but here are 2012 presents on Tozai-Trek. I have worked a lot these past month on the site to offer you new functionality. No change in the design, the interface and the look & feel stay the same but I made several fundamental changes. First of all I changed the multilingual [...]

For the first outdoor rock climbing trip of 2012, I went with friends to… Jōgasaki (城ヶ崎) of course. On Saturday we went to some cliffs were we have never climbed before: Ocean rock (オーシャンロック). Blue sky, scarlet sea, Ciel bleu, mer écarlate, plants turned brown by the winter, colors contrast was beautiful. On top of [...]

Here is a short video which summarize our last snowshoeing weekend in Urabandaï (裏磐梯).

Last Sunday we went to another classic Urabandai (裏磐梯) snowshoe trip: Yellow fall. Last time I went there, we were alone and snow had covered all the traces so we could enjoy some wilderness and solitude. But this time it was a complete different story. Arrived at the top of the ski resort, while we [...]

According to local, there was 3 times less snow last week-end in Urabandaï (裏磐梯) than usually at the same period of the year. Compare to last year, there was also as less clients than there was less snow. But this was not due to some unusual weather conditions. Like last autumn, despite the radioactivity measures [...]

To start 2012 well, I wanted to spend new-year’s eve with friends at Yoshigadaira (芳ヶ平ヒュッテ)　lodge at Kusatu-Shiranesan (Kusatsushiranesan, 草津白根山). Nobody was available, so I decided to postpone the trip to last week-end. Due to business trip and sickness, the group got reduced and we ended up being only four to share a good moment in [...]

I wish you all the best for 2012

Here is a video on the 5.11a variation of the Atomic hang (アトミックハング) route, shot while climbing at Otatsu (おたつ) in Jōgasaki (城ヶ崎) in the Izu peninsula (伊豆).

Here is a video on the Otatsu crack (おたつ・クラック) route (5.9), shot while climbing at Otatsu (おたつ) in Jōgasaki (城ヶ崎) in the Izu peninsula (伊豆).

Here is a video on the Tsuwabuki (ツワブキ) route (5.10a), shot while climbing at Akane-no-hama (あかねの浜) in Jōgasaki (城ヶ崎) in the Izu peninsula (伊豆).