Back from Mt Fuji

 
 
 
 
It was very cold and wet and rainy and so cloudy that near the top you could not see anything. We didn't actually make it all the way to the top, but we talked to some people that had been on the bus with us who were a lot faster and they said that they couldnt even see where the crater was because the clouds were so thick. I believed it since we were probably 100 yards vertically but about 5 switchbacks from the top and we could barely see to the end of the path. And since we were cold and wet and tired and hungry, rather than going uphill more to see a cloud we decided to save our energy forgoing downhill. Which was good because instead of it taking two hours to go down it took about 3 and a half. And we didn't stop to rest but two or three times. The path was all little volcanic rocks so it was very slide-y. On the way up there had been some actual rocky patches that required climbing, notjust walking. It wasn't particularly crowded, probably because it was a Monday and raining, but there were a couple Japanese tour groups.

All in all it was fun, though, despite the fact we had awful weather. I can definately see where the saying about how someone who doesn't climb Mt. Fuji once is a fool, but so is the person who climbs it twice.