Author: vc-dev

About Mt.Kurodake autumn leaves ② and trekking information

*about alpine flowers
It seems flower season is going to end.

Aconitum yamazakii and Solidago virgaurea L. subsp. leiocarpa are still blooming
*about Akaishigawa river
August 27 th it rained. So the flow is fast a little and the water of river increases.
But hikers can walk through.

*about Mt.Hokuchin junction
There is no snow on the trail.

*about Autumn leaves
From the northeast of Mt.Kurodake to Kumondaira
Arctous alpina (L.) Niedenzu var. Japonica is still green.
Some of them turns to red
We need check the weather forecast for autumn leaves.
A few days ago around Mt.Hakuun hut the temperature was 3 ℃　in the early morning.
Today Mt.Kurodake was 6 ℃.
Weather forecast says that from September to December the temperature will be higher than average from September to December the temperature will be higher than average ears.
We are worry how Autumn leaves goes on.

About Mt.Kurodake autumn leaves ①
From the top of Mt.Kurodake to Mt.Pon kurodake.
Arctous alpina (L.) Niedenzu var. Japonica is turning red day by day.
Their color is deep red and they are spreading.
Some of them turned to black.
But we can see many green leaves.
We think that green leaves will turn to deep red!
These photos are Mt.Kurodake and Mt. Ponkurodake.
Day by day leaves is turning to red , we could not find any big changes since last report.
We found autumn leaves very early but now it seems that leaves turn to red very slowly.

Internship finished.
From August 7th
Two short term internship people finished their work.

From the top of Mt. Kurodake to Mt.Ponkurodake Arctous alpina var. japonica turns to red partially.
In a few days the temperature at Kurodake ishimuro is 6℃～9℃.
In the afternoon it was warmer than average ( today was so hot!)
It made the leaves turn to red.
Thinking about only this area, tuning to red is half month faster than last year.
The weather forecast said that warm days were going on.
Autumn leaves will be delayed.
Today we cannot say “Autumn leaves starts!”
We observe the weather forecast closely.
*Mt,kurodake northewest face
The number of flowers and types are decreasing , we also found many flowers withered.
We can see “Aconitum yamazakii, Solidago virgaurea var. leiocarpa, Anaphalis margaritacea and Cirsium)
*around Numanotaira
Totally froff of Sieversia pentapetala

*Under the Mt.Hokuchin junction
Snow gorge is gone!
But the trail is little bit wet and easy to slip.
Please be careful to walk.
*Akaishi river
Yesterday’s rain made flow much.
But hikers can walk over the river.

*we found often bears and their traces.
We have never seen them in such place.
We found big bears, some bears that are just leaving from his parents, and mother bear and kid bear.
They walk around the trails, be careful to walk and bring your bell and whistle.