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posted: October 30th, 2006 |
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The photos on this page continue with October 8th. The first shot on this page was taken at 8:59 AM by Kazuya and the final picture on this page was taken at 9:50 AM! Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| October 8th Continues From Page 1 |
The first shot here is from right beside the upper ropeway station, looking back down towards that small lake where we were earlier. The 2nd shot is looking a bit higher on the mountain. The 3rd shot is a map - "You are here" is in the lower left quadrant of the map - at the top of the symbol which looks like "train tracks". We went to the "STAR shaped trail intersection in the upper right quadrant of the map.
For a more detailed map see the final shot on Page 3.
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More shots of color, ice and clouds. The center shot shows people walking up the trail which we hiked yesterday on the zig-zag portion of the trail shown on the map.
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Here are 3 more shots of incredible color contrasts. The first shot shows people walking on the trail headed for the switchbacks on the trail. In the 3rd shot you can also see a red-jacketed person.
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More sharp color contrasts. Sorry if some of these shots look very similar, they may be the same place, but the clouds and shadows are different.
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 08Oct_Komagatake_DownTrail_ Ice_Color_RopewayTop50RC |
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Finally the clouds are beginning to lift in a major way. In the 2nd shot it is the first time we can see all the way to the top of the switchback area of the trail. Note all of the people with their red and orange and blue parkas. Due to the bright clothing, you really get the scale in this photo. The 3rd shot is a cropped version of the 2nd photo. There is also a larger JPG file of it - 2,000 x 1,962 pixels in size; please check it HERE if you don't mind waiting for the 1.4 MB file to download.
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Here are 3 more shots as the clouds move around, reducing visibility to 100 feet at times and then suddenly opening up a panorama of beauty before our eyes.
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These 3 shots make it appear that the clouds are finally going to leave for good.
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 08Oct_Komagatake_DownTrail_ Ice_Color_RopewayTop59RC |
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Oops! Wait a minute, I guess the clouds did not leave for good!! Here are 2 shots of the gondola car coming up (or going down). In the 2nd shot you can see the ice covered vegetation in the background. In the 3rd shot, you can see the ice covered branches in the foreground as well!
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Here are 3 more shots as the clouds move around. I am sorry, as I write this I realize that there is a fair amount of very close duplication this month, forgive me! The clouds are different enough, though, so it makes it interesting.
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These 3 shots are both good color, and also show ice in the foreground.
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The first shot here is a good color shot and shows that the weather did not discourage people from riding up to the top via the ropeway. All of them are better prepared than we were! The 2nd shot shows the town WAYyyy down below us. The 3rd shot is from the window of the gondola car as we rode down - note how steep this mountain is.
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| End Page 2, but October 8th STILL continues on Page 3 |
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