Fall foliage report for Mt. Kurodake

Mt.Kurodake autumn leaves report

Today’ early morning temperature is 6 °c and cloudy.
When you take chair lift, you need something warm to wear.

But after 7th station sign of Mt,Kurodake, we were above the clouds.
The sun shined. When we went up, it was very hot. We kept ourselves safe from having heat strokes.
We can’t believe this hot weather in September.
So leaves stop to change color.

When it is cloudy and windy, we need something warm to wear.
When it is sunny, we feel hot.
That is very abnormal weather.

At the slope of Mt.Kurodake some leaves are changing color very slowly.
Around Kumonotaira and Hokkai sawa we can see some orange leaves and red leaves.
Most of leaves are still green and yellow green.
And also some leaves are dying because of this heat.
“Arctous alpina var. japonica” is getting dark color as same as last post.
But it is still good to see.
We can see green leaves a lot, so we will see good colored leaves for a while.

Weather forecast says that temperature will be 6~9°c beginning of this week, 5~6°c end of this week end.( But it’s just forecast. Weather forecasts are always wrong.)

Last year we could see beautiful autumn leaves around Mt.Kurodake .
We see the weather carefully.

In this time when the weather breaks, the trail gets frost and become slippery.
When you go hiking, please bring warm wear for snowy weather.