Furosato to Owase pt.1

We spent last night in a fevered echo chamber about it being ok to skip mountain passes moving forward if we were concerned about bears, and making backup plans for the three passes on the cards today just in case.

In the bright sunshine though, they just looked friendlier. While we are yet to see a single other hiker (or white person for that matter) on this trail, there was also a local fisherman ahead on the first one, and just standard warnings on the second rather than highly specific, dated sightings, so we sucked it up. It was splendid, if we did cop about 60 spiderwebs to the face and backtrack two different times on one to find the trail.

We played music again, which delivered another ridonk scenario of pausing to let a family of wild boar pass listening to Sabrina Carpenter. In the video you can actually see them over my idiotic, ignorant shoulder.Read more