Hi there,
well, I think I'm too lazy and haven't a blog, trip report or similar, sorry, I just made a dvd with the pictures and it was harder than the trip itself
I made around 3800km (around 120km per day), the harder maybe was the hot weather (august), specially around Kyoto and sorroundings, even harder than the mountainous geography (specially central alps), but the environment was really beautiful, full of vegetation. If you need any suggestion, let me know
I see you're alpinist, actually I'm too, I enjoyed some years ago climbing in the rockies in summer (I have to go in winter). For the moment I'm skiing here in the pirineos mountain range (between spain and france), its snowing fine (not like in Canada, of course
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