Mt. Tōno-dake (搭ノ岳)

Mar 12

Is one of the mountains of the Tanzama Mountains range, with an elevation of 1,567M (5,141 ft). Its summit marks the border between Sagamihara, Kiyokawa in Aiko and Yamakita in Ashigarakami in Ashigarakami.

Also known as Mount Tō / 搭ノ岳 is in the Tanzawa mountain range runs about 40 kilometers east-west through northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. There are number of mountains in Tanzawa range and two are in the list of “100 Famous Japanese Mountains”. Both can be hiked in a same trail and Mt. Tonodake (Tohno-dake) is the highest peak. I was physically and more importantly, mentally was not up to the steep and physically demanding climb waiting for me with less than couple of hundred meters.

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. Tōno-dake (搭ノ岳)

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