Mt. Norikura

It is the wallpaper photograph of the mountains in Mt. Norikura and the Alps taken from the altitude of 3026m,
and the Mt. Norikura summit of the mountain.

Mt. Norikura was independent Mine in the southern part of the north Alps, and was an active volcano once as a conical volcano type volcano. It seems that the origin of the name of Mt. Norikura is coming from the portion of a saddle part looking just like the saddle of a horse if Kenga-mine of the summit of the mountain is likened with the head of a horse. Moreover, it is although it had also become the spot which is a summer resort of summer (Tatamidaira even summer 10 degrees or less), and can climb a 3000m class mountain comparatively handy since it went up by car to Tatamidaira in the altitude of 2702m before the regulation of private cars which I have performed, Now, a private car will be stopped in the parking lot of the Hirayu hot spring at foot, and will run by a bus on a regular route from there. I think that beginners are also comparatively easy and tend to climb mountain climbing except for an intense-cold term in a 3000m class mountain. Tatamidaira and the vertical drop of Kenga-mine are about 324m. Beginners also stand to the summit of the mountain like half--2 hour for 1 hour. From a Tatamidaira parking lot, the figure of a dominant peak and Kenga-mine cannot be worshipped yet. A mountain-climbing route comes down a bus by Tatamidaira, walks along the promenade beside Turugaike on foot from there, and progresses in the direction of the Fujimi mountain (altitude of 2817m). As a mountain trail large from there rolls the skirt of the Fujimi mountain, it raises altitude little by little gently-sloping. There is a flower garden where the Fujimi mountain summit of the mountain spreads to the right hand in the Mt. Norikura foot in a left hand, and the meantime is gone up. If the Marisiten mountain (2872m) branch way which has a corona observatory soon is passed and you walk for a while, Kenga-mine, a dominant peak, appears at hand suddenly. loose up to the hut of here to the shoulder -- it is going down a little. If the hut of the shoulder is passed, it will become a mountain trail full-scale still more. But width is also fairly wide and beginners can also reach enough by a sneaker grade. However, it is not flat and there are quite a many rocks etc. a prospect is bad -- crawling and escaping from between pines -- on the way -- rocks are crossed. The large red arrow is written on the place where a way is unclear. It is slightly a rest, when altitude is raised at a stretch till the place where the inclination of a saddle part is a little loose and it arrives to a saddle part. Probably because mountain climbing and air which do not simply get used are thin, breathing becomes rude considerably. The crater of those days whose once Mt. Norikura was a volcano can be seen on the right of a saddle part. It is an avatar pond of the crater lake now. Although there is one of the sommas called a Kodama mountain (2979m) in the middle of a saddle part, since there is almost no vertical drop, he walks along the large portion of a saddle part as it is for the time being. However, since the wind is intense if it comes out to the way along this One, cautions are required so that [ a hat etc. ] it may not be flown. Ascent of the last is started from here to a summit. There is a thing like a simple hut, and if it goes up between rocks, it will arrive in Kenga-mine (3026m), the highest peak, soon. Since it is called independent Mine, although interrupted 360 degrees, from the summit of the mountain, it can carry out skilled [ of the view which is not ]. The views, such as Takamagahara (2829m), were really wonderful to north Alps mountain ranges, such as Mt. Yarigatake and the Hotaka mountain range, the Minami-Alps mountain range, the central Alps, and immediately the neighborhood. Moreover, it was the highest weather on that day, and even if it was past 3:00 p.m., even clouds were completely nothing. After staying at a summit for a while, Shimoyama was carried out again, but as for going down, a knee gets tired with unfamiliar mountain climbing very well. Although beginners can just reach, the weather of a mountain changes suddenly. Since a temperature difference when the time of having cleared up again, gas, and drizzle start is also a very intense and very windy place, I think whether preparation of rain gear etc. is required. When it reaches before, it becomes cloudy suddenly that it was fine weather, and drizzle begins to get down, and it has the experience which was getting cold and carried out Shimoyama confusedly. Moreover, if gas starts, a mountain trail and a direction will become unclear. Although Mt. Norikura was able to go by the private car to the terminal point Tatamidaira of the Norikura skyline before, it is the last with regulation of private cars about 2002. Since Mt. Norikura had only a route of a bus now, it became impossible to photo the view from Norikura skylines, such as Haimatsu of Kikyogahara which was photoed this time.

Access	Haimatsu of Kikyogahara	Fujimi mountain	Mt. Norikura
Norikura skyline	Volcanic activity of 10,000 years ago	To the summit of the mountain	Fujimi mountain summit of the mountain
To the hut of the shoulder	Pass the hut of the shoulder	Escape from between Haimatsu(s).	Norikura mountain climbing
It is to a saddle part at last	From a saddle part	Kodama mountain	To the Mt. Norikura summit of the mountain
Summit of the mountain	Notes of mountain climbing	The ridgeline of a saddle part	It stands on the summit of the mountain
A Marisiten mountain and a corona observatory	A Tatamidaira parking lot and Turugaike	Mountain trail	The north Alps seen from the saddle part