Yukiiri yama Ibaraki

Yukiiri yama is located on the boundary between Kasumigaura city and Ishioka city.
We will start hiking at Fureaino-sato park and walk for about 3.5 hours.
The altitude of the Kengamine peak is 360 m.

*Meeting time and place

• Saturday October 15th, 2022
• 9:30 a.m. at Tsukuba center car parking lot (next to the bus terminal). Please be on time as the parking lot is only free for 20 minutes.

*Route
You can download the hiking map (Japanese only).

http://yukiiri.jp/pdf/map.pdf

We will walk following the suggested route on the map. (Since there are alternative routes, we might change.)
Note that we will walk both hiking trails and paved roads.

*Difficulty level
2 out of 5

*What to bring

• hiking shoes
• lunch
• water
• snacks to share
• raingear (just to be sure...)

If you want to join this hike, send a message with your name, telephone number, if you have a car and how many people you can take as passengers.

Sorry for this rather late announcement. We hope that you can join!
See you next week Sunday

Twelve people, including toddler Hotaka, gathered around 9:30 at the Tsukuba bus terminal parking lot. We left around 9:40 and started hiking at 9:25. There is a big parking lot at Yukiiri Fureai no Sato Park and there is a nature center, which we did not visit.

In spite of the weather forecast being quite good, we had a drizzle and sometimes slight rain almost all along the way. It made some parts of the trails quite slippery, but we still had nice views over the Kanto plain and Kasumigaura.

At 12:00 we arrived at Kengamine, which has benches and a nice view, so a good place for having lunch.
At some point there were many trails so the way down was a bit confusing. Just follow the signs to Mitsuishi. There is a restaurant and toilets. When people were enjoying the view the kind lady even offered some autumn snacks.

We arrived back at the parking lot at 15:00 and arrived in Tsukuba around 15:45.
Thanks everybody for joining and see you at the next hike or other event. Share your pictures!