Who said snowshoeing wasn’t fun ?

After spending Christmas climbing a rock, I went to enjoy snow with friends for New Year’s eve. Four days with friends snowshoeing at Urabandaï, relaxing in onsens, eat good food and have a lot of fun[...]

Last week-end we went climbing week-end in another place : Jōyama (城山), a big rock between Maku-Iwa (幕岩) and Jōgasaki (城ヶ碕). At the contrary to these two areas, Jōyama has several equipped multi-pitch routes. To my knowledge it is the closest multi-pitch rock-climbing place from Tōkyō.

Myōgisan (妙義山)… People had been recommending me to go to these mountains for a while. Last Sunday a member of the club I joined (Outdoor Japan Club) was organizing a hike there so I decided to join the group to discover the area[...]

What could have been the worst rock climbing week-end end with a happy end[...]

I’m invited next Tuesday, November 23^rd, to make a presentation at the cultural exchange center of Yokohama (横浜), a town next to Tōkyōabout the cultural difference between France and Japan about hiking.

Following last Sunday’s hike, you will find in this article all the practical information (mountain lodge, access…) for hiking to the top of Kinpusan (金峰山) summit.

After rock climbing on Saturday which is again planned for next week-end, I decided to go hiking to a place I didn’t know on Sunday. I chose to go to Kinpu-zan West of the Okuchichibu-sankai massif (奥秩父山塊) [...]

I was back rock climbing today, but at a new place: Takatoriyama (鷹取山). Climbing on this sandstone is very particular. Holds are crumbling away in the hands and under the feets. Sometimes it feels like climbing an escalator going down. Seen from the bottom, the walls full of holes, seem to offer plenty of holds but they are in fact quite hard to climb[...]

One month. It’s the time I was hold away from walls and rocks. It was with great pleasure that I went back to Maku-Iwa (幕岩) last Sunday, to take on rocks. After a 5.11b/c climbed top rope quite easily, I was quickly brought down to earth [...]