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posted: February 1st, 2006 |
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The photos on this page continue with January 1 (at 1:13 PM) - still at Mt. Zao - and continue through January 3rd - a trip to a mountain shrine in the snow. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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This row contains 3 more shots of snow monsters. Aren't they amazing! Note the skiers in the backgrounds of the first 2 photos.
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Three more shots of snow monsters - the 3rd shot is of one particularly ugly black jacketed monster!!
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The first shot is the final one at the summit. The last 2 shots are from the ropeway on the way down.
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Three more shots from inside the Gondola Car. Note the ski tracks.
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Three more shots from inside the Gondola Car - getting low enough on the mountain now so that there is some life other than skiers. Notice all of the rabbit tracks. The center shot is particularly fine.
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We saw this sunset on the way home from Mt. Zao. The 2nd shot is on January 2nd at Akinomiya Hot Spring, a nice hot spring where Kazuya's family took us on the 2nd. The 3rd shot is January 3rd. We went - by ourselves via train - to Yama Dera, which means Mountain Shrine. This map of the various Shrine Buildings
was inside the train station. I know you can't make out much, but notice that there are all of these little buildings on the side of a big mountain. We hiked around on that mountain in the DEEP SNOW!
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These 3 shots show the entryway to the Main Shrine.
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The first shot shows their big bell. The 2nd shot shows the place where you have to pay the money and they give you some rubber boots and some lengths of rope to tie around them for traction. The 3rd shot is a little ways up the trail.
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Three shots along the trail. Notice that the 2nd photo is a zoom shot of the 3rd photo. See all those small caves? Kazuya said that there are probably dead monks and/or monks bones in many of those caves.
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Ah, the snow comes again! In the first shot look closely to find the small shrine at the base of the big rock. The 2nd shot is over the roof of one shrine and you can see another in the background. The 3rd shot is from near the summit, looking down on the town area.
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