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This past weekend I decided to climb Mt. Ishizuchi with a friend. I think it was my first time actually climbing a mountain. We ended up starting the climb a bit late, as we were celebrating with other friends the night before. We could have arrived earlier, but we were lazy about it. Anyway, we officially started on the path to the mountain around noon. It supposedly takes 3-4 hours to make the climb up, and the last gondola back to the parking lot was at 6pm, so we were cutting it close if we didn't want to walk the whole way back down.

The journey up was intense. We kept up a quick pace most of the time, though we did pause now and again to enjoy the sights and the view (and it was so beautiful the whole way up). Along the way there were also several "chain paths", which you can climb up to advance instead of walking. The thing about these chains, though, is that they are very dangerous. You can easily fall to your death, or at least serious injury, if you are not careful. That's because there is no safety equipment, and the path could be very slippery. There were a total of three chain paths throughout the climb; I did the first and the third. The first was the scariest, but the third was definitely the hardest. Would I do it again? Most probably. I definitely would like to do the climb in the spring and summer.