Final Conquerization

The weather was gorgeous on Sunday so we said, "Let's do it!" And we left to make our third and final hike up Mount Iwaki! We were planning to go earlier but the weather never turned out well, so we went for it, and it was a beautiful day to hike!! Our trip started with a 7am bus ride out to the base of the mountain. Our starting point was Iwaki Jinja, the mountain temple.



This is a picture from the bottom fo the mountain. This is what we hiked--3 times!!

Although only half way to the top, we were already tired and drenched in sweat!! Don't we look so excited to climb this mountain!

Using the sunglasses filter technique, we were able to get some pretty neat pictures!

Travis thought he spotted a full-on double rainbow, but it was just a bird!

We were nearing the top but even 3/4 the way up the views are already amazing!

The last trek is about 400 meters in length but it seems like 1,000 meters in height! What the picture below doesn't show is that there is another straight-up climb after this one! These last two vertigos are obviously the worst!!

We finally! reached the top!!! What a hike! We made it in a record time--about 3 hours 3o minutes! We were practically running up the mountain, but we made in alive! 3rd time's a charm.

Even though we were almost delirious from exhaustion, we were pretty happy with our conquerization! This mountain can't stop us--WOOT! Take that mountain!

The trek up was entirely too exhausting so after eating our PB&J's, Travis decided to take a short nap.

It was a pretty clear day so the views were quite marvelous! Here are some spectacular views from the top.

We took some time to hang out with the dragonflies that were zooming around the peak. There must have been hundreds of them, and some were the size of our hand. We stuck to the small ones!

We booked it down the mountain to catch the early bus back home, so by the end we looked more like zombies drenched in sweat!! So in our final conquering we hike from the bottom to the top and the top to the bottom, without cheating and taking the ski lift or the bus! But overall it was an amazing last journey to the top!!!! And we conquerized unscathed, besides a few scratches!