Omedeto gozaimasu!
My wife and I "hiked" to the summit in July 2009...our first.
Up Kawaguchiko...
Down Subashiri...
Judging from your picture, we had the same condtions...Rain, cloudy, then cleared and then clouded up at the summit.
It was the 7th station where we noticed people bending and stretching and my wife and I thought this is just a day hike and they taking this all too seriously...
Well, when we turned the corner we saw the reason for all of that stretching...Had to put in 4WD...
The only thing missing at the summit was a Starbucks and McD...Heck, they had everything else up there!
We were the first in our family to do it all in one day...I am half Japanese...
My Japanese family makes it an annual pilgrimage over the course of 4 days.
We didn't get the 6th station brand because the proprietor was passed out by his fire and was NOT getting up....Poor guy...
Yes, the people we encountered were the most friendly...
Overall, we had fun and would do it again.
