The first snow

You need winter gear to hike up mountains.
September 18th at Mt.Kurodake in Daisetuzen it snowed.
And the next day 19th it snowed very much.
And more 20th all the mountains that is 1200m~1300m high in Daisetuzan became perfect snow winter mountains.
Depends on places there are deeper snow than 1m.
20th the lodge keeper in Hakuun lodge closed their lodge, and went down to the foot of mountains.
That’s rare.
It’s very difficult to hike up without snow gear.
Don’t hike up in light clothing.

In the day time the temperature is rising.
Snow is melting.
In the early morning snow is really hard like skate link.
It’s very dangerous.

All the mountains is covered with deep snow. We won’t see beautiful autumn leaves any more.
So we don’t recommend all the hikers hiking up to the mountains.