More Pictures!

 The climb up to Komagatake

 It was tiring, but not even close to how tiring Yosemite was...

 Signs at Nakadake (a little over the halfway point)

 Stack of rocks

 More rocks...(what a beautiful sky)

 Nakadake

 Strange bug (there are many strange bugs in Japan...)

 More signs (top one says Nakadake)

 The fog

 Liz and another rock shrine

 Camp grounds between Nakadake and Komagatake

 The hike down

 More fog

 It was some pretty thick fog...

 A map of the hiking routes in the area

 People hiking up

 Our hike back

 Tiger lilies!  (I think...)

 Near the beginning/end of the hike

 Near the beginning/end of the hike

 Seriously...the fog was freaky!!

 Ice along the trail!

 The hike down was kinda scary...one wrong move and you're falling down the mountain...

 People on the hike down

 The hike back down

 帰りを待っている人がいる！パンプキンです！^___^

The little kid that Liz and I made faces at on the bus ride back from our hike.  We were all having fun!  :)

Tenryu River (again)

Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City

 The Nagano Prefectural office (Kencho)

 Matsuri lanterns at Zenkoji Temple

 A story of a tanuki who turned into a monk!  (or was it the other way around...?)

 More of Zenkoji Temple

 Uma at Zenkoji (prayer cards)

 Our Scavenger Hunt group!  (consisting of Chris, Sarah, Helen, me, and 4 really nice high school girls who helped us out!)

 View from the highest point at Zenkoji

 Michelin Man shrine I found on the way back home from Nagano City

 Morning Glory flowers!  One of my favorites!  :)

 Let's keep the river clean!

A river I found while getting lost today

 Same river near a traditional house

 What a view!

Last picture I took before getting completely lost and confused...

Hey everyone!

Here are some pictures of the trips I've taken around my city and Nagano City, where I went for an All-Nagano JET orientation. It was long, but it wasn't too boring, which was nice. I got to talk and hang out with some high school girls during a scavenger hunt. With my poor Japanese and their simple English, we got along well :) It was interesting to get a sneak-peek of how the age group I'm gonna be teaching soon acts in a group!

Well, that's it for now! I'll update later! :)