Awesome photos of a gorgeous country.
The Shimanami Kaido is on my bike ride bucket list, as is the San’in Route
Romantique. Someday.
On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 12:58:40 PM UTC-5 RichS wrote:
> Takashi,
>
> Your Hunqapillar has always looked just right in the spectacular landscape
> you get to ride in. Love the nod to the non-aero brake levers and drop bars
> on this iteration of your Hunq.
>
> Happy New Year!
> Rich in ATL
>
> On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 3:53:48 AM UTC-5 Takashi wrote:
>
>>
>> I decided to not visit my parents this winter to avoid catching virus,
>> and I have nothing to do during winter vacation, so I thought "Why not go
>> for a ride?"
>> So here are several pictures from my last ride on Dec 29th.
>>
>> I started riding from Kaida Plateau (elev. about 1100m).
>> It's been an unusually warm winter, and the roads were mostly free of
>> snow.
>> Here is a picture of Mt. Ontake (elev. 3067m) from Kaida.
>>
>> [image: ontake1.jpg]
>>
>> As I climbed up to about 1700m, at places where mountains or trees
>> shelter roads from sunshine, roads were white with snow.
>>
>> [image: white.JPG]
>>
>> Whereas in places where sun shines on the road, asphalt was appearing.
>>
>> [image: sea_of_clouds.JPG]
>>
>> What looks like a sea on the picture above is actually clouds.
>> You can's expect to see a sea from the elevation of 1700 meters.
>>
>> As I pedaled, I enjoyed views of Mt. Norikura (elev. 3026m).
>>
>> [image: norikura1.JPG]
>>
>> [image: norikura2.jpeg]
>>
>> At Nigorigo Onsen ("onsen" means hot spring) located at elev. 1770m, I
>> enjoyed a nice hot bath.
>>
>> [image: onsen.JPG]
>>
>> And then descended to the other side of the mountains, enjoying the view
>> of Mt. Ontake from the opposite side of the first picture of this post.
>> The sky was covered with clouds by this time, but the view was great
>> anyway.
>> In the picture below, it might be hard to tell the ridge of mountain from
>> the white sky.
>> Between Mt. Ontake and me is a very deep valley. White horizontal line at
>> the middle of the picture is another road which I didn't take. Black line
>> at the bottom is Nigorigo River.
>>
>> [image: ontake2.JPG]
>>
>> Sizes of pictures in this post are reduced. You can see the originals in
>> my Flickr posts.
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/77318553@N08/
>>
>> Thank you for reading!
>> I wish you all a happy new year.
>>
>> Takashi
>>
>>
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