Hiking in Akiyama

My friends and I hiked the ridges of mountains around my local area, Akiyama, on Saturday. It was so fine day but so cold because winter is coming.

It was so hard for me to hike this course because it has a lot of uphill and downhill in addition I had sprained my ankle last week when I was playing soccer. So I challenged this hiking with bandaged my ankle.

Almost people who took part in this hiking were very talkative. We talked and laughed a lot during this hiking. It was so fun. My friend’s father said, “Walk zigzag in mountains”. So we followed the advice and walked zigzag. Then we realized that our life is similar to climbing mountains and a wise remark. It’s “Don’t take a shorter way in mountain climbing and your life!”

I made a guidebook for this hiking remembering hiking when I was a schoolboy. This picture is the front cover of it. I also made the theme of this hiking. It was “Beautiful and historic scenery in Akiyama”. There are so many small mountains in my local area. They are turning red or yellow. These are very beautiful and walking in such mountains is very nice and makes us feel so good. We enjoyed seeing beautiful views.




Akiyama, my local area, is enclosed by so many mountains. In the old time, our ancients had to go through mountain paths to trade with nearby villages. We walked same ways. There were old walls made from stone and we could feel the feelings of our ancients. Now, we have tunnels so we don’t have to go through such mountain paths and we were unable to see such historic things without hiking like this.

We also went to the mountain called “26 night mountain”. In old time, it was said that our ancients used to pray to moon’s god for health of their family, good harvests and no disaster and so on at night on July 26 every year. It was interesting that the people praying were only females. I also prayed with our palms together there for health of us!

However I caught a cold yesterday. I have a runny nose. Why? Maybe playing too much?











Last two photos are my friends who is examining with pig’s femurs. There are too many bones. It’s a sicking sight a little. He is studying about “Bone Fracture Healing Assessment and Application to the Osteoporosis Diagnosis by Impact Testing”