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posted: September 30th, 2006
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The photos on this page continue September 17th - the hike around the Kusatsu mountains - and go through the end of the month. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

  The first shot is a "rock" behind the lake shown in the center photo of Row 11 on the previous page. The 2nd shot is an unknown white flower along the trail. The 3rd shot is some species of Lycopodium along the trail.
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  The first 2 shots here show the first of real red fall color. The 3rd shot is a nice photo of Chamaepericlymenum canadense, what we would call "Canadian Dogwood" in the USA.
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  The first shot is me on the top of an area hill looking back towards the caldera area. The 2nd shot is another Chamaepericlymenum canadense and the 3rd shot is Maianthemum dilatatum.
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  The first shot here is "Gankouran" (Japanese name). The 2nd shot is Mt. Moto Shirane and the 3rd shot is a waterless caldera. This caldera is deep and appears to have no outlet, so my immediate questions were "why is there no water", "where does it go"?
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  The first shot here is a panorama of the waterless caldera. As you can see, there is definitely no outlet. The 2nd two photos are a high alpine plant of scree slopes - Dicentra peregrina. We were very fortunate to find a few which were still in bloom. This was a new flower for us.
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  First, one more Dicentra peregrina. The next 2 shots are again, the waterless caldera, both from different angles and with different lighting conditions.
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  First shot is from the trail around the waterless caldera, looking back at where we came from. That scree slope is where the Dicentra peregrina shots were taken. The next 2 shots are from Mt. Moto Shirane looking back over the waterless caldera towards the big strangely blue/green caldera lake.
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  First shot is Kazuya at the summit of Mt. Moto-Shirane (2,171 meters). The 2nd and 3rd shots are another small lake about 75 minutes from the end of the trail (see map).
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  This final shot along the trail is once again, the lake shown in the row just above, but closer and from a lower elevation. The 2nd shot is me in the gondola car as we ride down the mountain to the bus stop. The 3rd shot is a gondola car coming up towards us.
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  Here is Kazuya in the gondola car. This is the final shot of the hike! The 2nd picture in this row is actually a train station on the Hachiko Train Line as we came home on September 18th. The town name is shown in the photo title.
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  On September 23rd we climbed Mt. Takao, for about the 25th time. The first shot shows Mt. Fuji from the summit of Mt. Takao and the 2nd shot shows the summit crowd - which was not so bad on this day - and the very blue sky.
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  This is a link to a separate web page showing a Relatively NEW photo of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our new Sharp Aquos TV. You can see the new DVD Shelf here too.
    April 1, 2006 DVD Collection,
Movie of Home Theater System
& New TV Pictures
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