[Dialogue] Mt. Fuji

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In a message dated 2/2/2011 1:02:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
ramgriffin at msn.com writes:

Yes, great isn't it?  Bob  Griffin...Muriel & I enjoyed several of the 
angles on Mt. Fuji during  those 3-1/2 years in Japan.  Don't you remember the 
morning we caught  just a glimpse of Fuji from Tokyo House in 1974?   RAG





I do remember, Bob, though not as well as our first morning there and how  
ecstatic Titus Jayasakera was to be eating rice, not corn flakes, for  
breakfast.
 
I was privileged to return to Japan in 1989 on a teacher exchange trip to  
Lindsay's Sister City, Ono City, near Kobe. At the end of our visit to Ono, 
my  fellow teacher and I planned to climb Mt. Fuji on July 1, the opening 
day of  climbing season. We left our luggage in lockers in the train station 
at Shin  Fuji and took a bus to the old 5th station, the last one open that  
early in the season. It is at 2600 meters and was a small hut with two old 
men  and a woman to attend it. When the doors were closed, the hut was very  
smokey. Another man slept in the same room with Bill, my colleague and I, on 
 futons. Beautiful sunset and sky but clouds below us, so no  view. We 
slept there until 2:45 a.m., when we set off   hiking up the mountain. The 
entire mountain is small volcanic rocks, mostly  red and black but many other 
colors also. The only way to discern the trail is  that it is roped off. We 
made it almost to the ninth station, where we ran into  deep snow and it 
started to rain. We were hoping to see the sunrise, but  couldn't. We went to 
about 3400 meters and could clearly see the top. There were  a lot of people on 
the trails at lower levels, but only a few at the  top. What a wonderful 
memory. The Honorable Fuji, Fuji-San.
 
Blessings,
Jann McGuire  
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