Jenny and I decided to go hiking together on February 14, 2009. I know, it's Valentines' Day. I'm alone and Jenny got a green light from her BF. Unfortunately, Jenny had to work on that Saturday. So we switched it to February 15, 2009 when we planned to hike from CP1 to CP3. CP1 to CP2 is notorious for steep climbing from 200 meters to 850 meters for 10 kms.
Jenny and I started our journey from Tokyo to Odawara by Odakyu Train and then hopped on the bus to Tonosawa to start our walk. From the bus stop (around 10.10 a.m.), we lost our orientation. As girls, we are not afraid of asking for directions but the answer was so intimidating. Based on Oxfam, CP1 should be within 10 mins walk from the bus stop. The answer we got was 45 mins and walked uphills. OK, I thought. Just 35 mins more than we expected. Jenny and I then climbed stairs towards CP1. A few mins later, another confusion. Which way to go. Luckily, Jenny recognized some pictures from walking instruction and found out that we can just walk down to continue our hike to CP2. We probably missed about 1 km. or so from the CP. Who cares?
Now we are back on tracks. Everything looks so far so good until we saw a trail uphills. We kept walking up and up and up for several hours with a lot of stops. Boys, it's tough. We were passed by a couple. (The girl evern hiked in jeans, can you believe that?) I saw worse. Some girls hike in high heel. It's in Japan.
We kept going until 1 p.m., we reached (almost) the top where we stoped for lunch. We sat next to the jeans couple. We had nigiri (stuffed japanese riceball) and the couple had instant cup noodle. Smell so good. We felt like to trade our food.
We continued our way down towards CP2 and reached our first CP around 2 p.m. Not bad, 10 kms with 800 meter altitude gain for 4 hours. We stoped for refreshing ourselves, bought some mroe water and continued our walk to CP3. This time it was easy. We reached CP3 at Lake Ashi, Hakone in an hour for 5.5 km.
We hopped back on the bus to Odawara to catch a train home to Tokyo. At least we did it.
Jenny and I started our journey from Tokyo to Odawara by Odakyu Train and then hopped on the bus to Tonosawa to start our walk. From the bus stop (around 10.10 a.m.), we lost our orientation. As girls, we are not afraid of asking for directions but the answer was so intimidating. Based on Oxfam, CP1 should be within 10 mins walk from the bus stop. The answer we got was 45 mins and walked uphills. OK, I thought. Just 35 mins more than we expected. Jenny and I then climbed stairs towards CP1. A few mins later, another confusion. Which way to go. Luckily, Jenny recognized some pictures from walking instruction and found out that we can just walk down to continue our hike to CP2. We probably missed about 1 km. or so from the CP. Who cares?
Now we are back on tracks. Everything looks so far so good until we saw a trail uphills. We kept walking up and up and up for several hours with a lot of stops. Boys, it's tough. We were passed by a couple. (The girl evern hiked in jeans, can you believe that?) I saw worse. Some girls hike in high heel. It's in Japan.
We kept going until 1 p.m., we reached (almost) the top where we stoped for lunch. We sat next to the jeans couple. We had nigiri (stuffed japanese riceball) and the couple had instant cup noodle. Smell so good. We felt like to trade our food.
We continued our way down towards CP2 and reached our first CP around 2 p.m. Not bad, 10 kms with 800 meter altitude gain for 4 hours. We stoped for refreshing ourselves, bought some mroe water and continued our walk to CP3. This time it was easy. We reached CP3 at Lake Ashi, Hakone in an hour for 5.5 km.
We hopped back on the bus to Odawara to catch a train home to Tokyo. At least we did it.
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