I went to the foot of the mountain and stayed a night in the car so that I could start to climb very early in the morning.
Though I saw very beautiful stars in the sky around midnight there, there was dense fog around nearby mountains when I woke up at five in the morning. I had a light breakfast and then got started to climb.
On the way I passed by 'Yunomaru camping site', 'Central fork point' and 'Mushohtoh fork point'. I found the blue sky between clouds sometimes so I expected it would be better weather on the top, although it had been very windy and dense foggy while I was climbing.
At last I got to the summit and it was very strongly windy there. However, I set up a small radio antenna(skydoor antenna) at the back of a big rock and I got on the air, on 6 meter band of ham radio. I made contacts with Tochigi and Ibaraki, though a few with Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. I think they are blocked by Mt. Asama. I also made many contacts with Tohoku area, Tohkai area and Tottori.
But I enjoyed a ham radio although I only could set up a very small antenna. After I made 50 contacts, I decided to stop it and go down.
In early morning I was surronded by so tense fog that no good views could be seen. But later, around 10 AM, the fog was gone and it turned very fine. At last I could see mountains with a 360 degree field of vision. I even saw Mt. Fuji!
Next time I want to climb Mt. Eboshi as well as this Yunomaru.
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