The 10th station (for shelter and food) on the top of Mt. Fuji. It was closed down for the non-tourist season.
The morning view form the 9th station on Fujisan (using a red filter). Elevation is about 11,000 ft.
The cauldera at the top of Fuji-san. You can see the weather station on the other side of the crater. It's hard to tell that the crater is almost 1000' deep!
A Shinto Tori at the top of Fuji. Elevation 3776 meters (12,388 feet).
The only other climber I saw. He was coming up on some sort of cross-country skis and was using poles to push his way straight up the side.
Sideways icecicles give you an idea of how hard the wind blows on top of Fuji.
So much for the trail. the chains show where the trail was, but it had apparently been covered by a rock slide over the winter and hadn't been cleared up yet.
The morning sun from near the top of Fuji.
Coming down the mountain - at about 5 or 6 thousand feet here. Finally getting lower than the snow.
Big clouds rolling up the side of the mountain. One minute you could see forever, the next you were inside a cloud and couldn't see 20 feet.
On the west side of the rim.
This is supposed to be the trail!
Down to about 5000 feet, and below the snowline.
A big block of lava, called a "bomb". Blocks like these were blown into the air while molten then cooled and hardened on the way down.
At the bottom. Tired and dirty, but still had my gum.
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