Mt. Amagi (天城山)

Jun 16

Amagi Mountain Range (天城連山), stretches east to west in the central Izu Peninsula, highest point in the Izu Peninsula. Mt Amagi range has three peaks - Mt. Banzaburo (万三郎岳) at 1,406m (4,613ft), and Mt. Banjiro (万二郎岳) at 1,300m (4,300 ft) and Tōgasayama (遠笠山) at 1,197m (3,927 ft).

Like most of the trails in Japan, there are signs marking the trail - you just can’t get lost. Then again, if you follow signs, you are following someone else’s path - this is my problem (I was told so million times…). So, just to live up to my “reputation”, I took many alternative paths (this, I don’t recommend, unless you are willing to spent 12 hrs. instead of 8).

Don Kalubowila

“The life would have been easier had I not learned to challenge my own fears, had I not considered other possibilities, had I believed everything I was told (including things that was coming from my own brain). But easy has never been the point., if I didn’t take that first step out of my comfort zone, I couldn’t have traveled in 38 countries, I couldn’t have sailed across Atlantic, I couldn’t have cycled across US, Mexico &Japan, I couldn’t have worked in half a dozen of countries, and I couldn’t have done so many things I’ve done. If I had believed what I was told and let my own fears dictate my life, what boring life it would have been”

Mt. Amagi (天城山)

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