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Finally, after nearly two months in Toyama (and over a month after taking and uploading these pictures) I'm getting around to posting photos!
These pictures are basically only of my apartment and the area around it, and some of downtown Toyama. I intended someday to bring a camera to school (actually, I meant to do that on the culture festival day, but forgot) and to take a camera with me up Kurehayama Hill. I still haven't gotten around to climbing that on my bike, tho, since the weather was first too hot and then too wet. However! I did bring my camera with me on the climb up Mt. Tateyama, which is a much more impressive mountain; unfortunately, the extreme fog (we were basically inside cloud level for most of it) and some weird setting on my camera made those pictures not come out too well. :(
So to begin...
( pictures of toyama area )
The next pictures were taken at a different day and time, hence the change of weather and lighting.
( Into the city... )
And now, the Mt. Tateyama trip pics. None of these photos are very good, and none of them at all really captured the staggering scale of how big the mountain was, how steep it was, and how far up we climbed. But just to give you a sense of the scale, please observe that in all of these pictures the only vegetation you see is grass, flowers, and low bushes: mountain meadow plants. We were far above the timber line before we even started climbing. And on the final approach, there are no plants at all: too steep, too high, and too cold for anything but rocks.
( Long way down... )
The end! For now.
These pictures are basically only of my apartment and the area around it, and some of downtown Toyama. I intended someday to bring a camera to school (actually, I meant to do that on the culture festival day, but forgot) and to take a camera with me up Kurehayama Hill. I still haven't gotten around to climbing that on my bike, tho, since the weather was first too hot and then too wet. However! I did bring my camera with me on the climb up Mt. Tateyama, which is a much more impressive mountain; unfortunately, the extreme fog (we were basically inside cloud level for most of it) and some weird setting on my camera made those pictures not come out too well. :(
So to begin...
( pictures of toyama area )
The next pictures were taken at a different day and time, hence the change of weather and lighting.
( Into the city... )
And now, the Mt. Tateyama trip pics. None of these photos are very good, and none of them at all really captured the staggering scale of how big the mountain was, how steep it was, and how far up we climbed. But just to give you a sense of the scale, please observe that in all of these pictures the only vegetation you see is grass, flowers, and low bushes: mountain meadow plants. We were far above the timber line before we even started climbing. And on the final approach, there are no plants at all: too steep, too high, and too cold for anything but rocks.
( Long way down... )
The end! For now.
