The opportunity to acquire Fuji (read. Fudzi) was for us one of the highlights of departure. Given

The opportunity to acquire Fuji (read. Fudzi) was for us one of the highlights of departure. Given that up "closed" for tourists quite early autumn, and actually late summer, we had planned to climb at the beginning of your stay. Ustaliśmy the last weekend of August is for us the best (if not the only) term. Season actually already finished, closed one after the other trails, shelters also closed in the following databases parking. Apparently she was still an option with any of the trails in the first week of September, but at any moment they could call it off - we did not want to risk that deprive the adventure.
Preparations for climbing, trekking or rather, began much earlier, in Poland (part of the preparation I described before departure). At the beginning ginza houston we read many threads about Fuji online forums - for example. Proved to be very useful discussions in the "Japan" forum CS *. There I found some interesting information ginza houston regarding, inter alia, trails leading to the summit - there are four Yoshida, Subashiri, Gotemba and Fujinomiya, their name comes from the locality in which they start, but beware - there are village (called. 5 bases), which sets off on foot, but many low-lying town. Given the time of year and location of the fifth base (we wanted to move from the base on the eastern side of the volcano, which is closer to Tokyo), we chose the first of these routes - Yoshida Trail. At the forum CS also read about the various databases (for each trail is 10 of them, some common) and shelters; there was also given the coordinates of the hostel, where we decided to spend the night before ginza houston dawn. This night it was the right decision, given that the prevailing temperature at the top was quite low (for me it was just a cold, because 10 * C at sunset, at the height of our shelter, ie. 8 base - nearly three and a half thousand meters above sea level). I also learned what to take with you on the trail, as well as the fact that not all incoming suffer from altitude sickness, so do not panic. At the forum also met Hanako, who shared with us their experiences of climbing on Fuji (passed all 4 routes), and moreover agreed to take us under his roof - we stayed ginza houston with her for the first two nights in Japan.
Thus, the first two nights in Japan / Tokyo we were able to spend on kołczu *. Hanako-san lived in the charming ginza houston district of Osaka, where she held up a tiny cottage. Her apartment, for Japanese conditions, it was quite a bit (I do not remember how much mattered mat) and modern: living room with sofa bed (without legs), a low table (but not kotatsu), tv, wardrobe with sliding panels (for clothes, spare futon , that is the one for us, and everything in the house needed), alcove for curtain, where Hanako had a micro-bedroom, kitchenette and a separate bathroom and the toilet. He surprised us no traditional tatami mats on the floor - instead of them were soft cork mat. Solution much more functional.
The next night we had (a few weeks) booked in the hostel Tomoe-kan (ト モ エ 館), the so-called. "Old" 8 base (Old 8th Street), at a height of approx. 3 400 m asl They booked it for us, e-mail my Japanese friends. I could try to book itself, but I was afraid that if I write them in my (gajdzińskiego) mail, it turns out that there are no places (read: for gajdzinów) ... My Japanese friends also insisted ginza houston that it is necessary, but it is absolutely necessary take us by car to 5th base in Kawaguchiko, which goes to the top of the trail Yoshida. It was very nice of them, because Fuji from Tokyo center is just over 100 km. It is true that a month earlier declared their participation in climbing, but perhaps not quite believe that there choose ... The Japanese believe that the acquisition of Fuji (as it may, the highest mountain in Japan, a lot higher than Rysy, Lomnica, whether Gerlach) is a arcytrudny feat. They have a saying ginza houston that he who reached the summit of Fuji-san is a great man, but one who went on it twice (not to mention more), is a fool (or something). Btw, or to similar words you do not hear from our climbers in the context of Giewont ?!
1 Start Fuji (河口湖) is one bit of our Palenica Białczańska, which can be reached by asphalt road, which goes on the foot already directly on the trail. Yet-comfortable piece can drive a carriage ginza houston and wagon properly (as with us, to Morskie Oko), but of course ginza houston such a course should ginza houston not be the cheapest (not even orientowaliśmy how much it costs). This first episode is very easy, because the flat (after bryczko-wagon gives advice) - the path - for it offers beautiful views of the left (in the distance looms Lake Kawaguchiko), which is worth saturate, because most of the climbing - especially as already ginza houston as I could in the clouds - you can see a little. Then begins the stairs (p