REPORT

The temperature this week has been consistently high as the rainy season has yet to arrive. However, the mountains in the morning are very refreshing with temperatures below 20°. As I got off the Grat Quad and started walking on the Mountain Climbing Course (pictured), the wind blowing up from the foot of the mountain felt cool and comfortable, despite the strong sunlight on my back.
[Happo-One Nature Trail・Mountain Climbing Course]

I spoke with a photographer from the town of Ikeda in Nagano Prefecture, who greeted me and said, “I’m going to photograph the flowers blooming between the upper and lower forest areas.” Another hiker living in Hakuba Village commented, “I love your site. I often had my picture taken by Snownavi at Sanosaka during the ski season. Today I’m here to participate as an extra in a TV show.”
[Happo-One Nature Trail・Mountain Climbing Course]

I had another conversation with a father and son from Saitama Prefecture (pictured). The father told me, “We took advantage of a school holiday to come and climb up to Happo Pond. The weather is beautiful and the air feels so good. The son added, “The stairway section was hard.” There were fantastic views of the three main Hakuba peaks to the west, the Kaerazu-no-ken (pictured) in front of me, and Mt. Goryu and Mt. Kashimayari to the south.
[Happo-One Nature Trail・Shakujii Cairn to the No. 2 Cairn]

The snow covering the Happo Pond had melted quite a bit since my last visit, and now covered roughly 40% of the surface. The yukiwariso that had been blooming around the pond were now in their final stages, and many kumamo sumire were blooming on slope on the pond side of the No. 3 Cairn. In addition, the small white flowers of iwa-shimotsuke were beginning to bloom around the Happo Cairn.
[Happo-One Nature Trail・Happo-ike Pond]

　
[Happo-One Nature Trail 2024 Opening Information]
Period … 2024/6/1 (Sat.) & 6/2 (Sun.), 6/8 (Sat.) – 11/4 (Mon.)
Hours … Happo Alpine Line (8am －) *Early morning operation starts from 7/13
Fees … Happo Alpine Line Roundtrip / Adults JPY3,300, Elementary School Students JPY2,100, Preschoolers Free → Advance Discount Tickets: Adults JPY2,950, Children JPY1,800! (No need to exchange at the ticket window! You can proceed straight to the gondola.) Kurobishi Line Roundtrip / Adults JPY2,000, Elementary School Students JPY1,300, Preschoolers Free.
(*One preschooler free with each paid adult. The second preschooler will be charged at the normal children’s rate.)
　　
*Hakuba Happo-one will be reported 1－2times a week
*To Visitors Requesting Original Data of Our Photographs.
　　　
reported by Snownavi