camping

Another exploratory day-trip excursion to a possible route into Kani, linking to the northern route to Gero hot springs. At about 100 kilometers for the round trip it’s a long one, but this one avoids the punishing climbs normally involved in getting out of the city.

A bespectacled man with greying stubble beard, wearing a touk and squinting at the camera from inside a sleeping bag, inside a tent. His left hand bearing a wedding ring is curled against his chin.

A one-person tent pitched on a rooftop deck, overlooking a town nestled in a mountain valley, partly shrouded in mist with wisps of cloud in a morning sky.

2-4 December 2024: A town so nice I went there twice. A second journey to Gero hot springs, this time with no stopover on the way up. A full day of rest before the return offered a chance to explore the town just a little, and failure of my camping stove added to the adventure.

A branch of a Japanese maple with leaves just beginning to show signs of autumn color. A stone bench on which water bottles are resting is visible in the background below.

A branch of a Japanese maple with leaves just beginning to show signs of autumn color. A one-man tent is visible in the background.

A chest-up photo of a bald man in a chequered shirt, with a tree shading a utility shed in the background, and a patch of blue sky beyond.

Three blue pannier bags hanging from the branches of a Japanese maple tree, in an area flattened and finished in gravel. At the left edge of the photo there is a stone bench with a camp stove and moka pot.

A gravelled area with a row of trees some 10 meters away, and a stone bench in the foreground on which water bottles and other cooking gear rest, with a pannier bag and makings of a tent lying on the ground in front.

A brown one-man tent pitched on a leaf-strewn forest floor.