Mt. Choukai, Yamagata (August 11th, 2005)

Here is the hut we stayed at the top of Mt. Choukai.
鳥海山山頂の山小屋を望んで…

Here are the pictures from our trip to Mt. Choukai, Yamagata prefecture on August 11th, 2005.
We stayed at Sakata the night before and take the bus to the entrance of the trail in the early morning. Yamagata is my hometown, but I had never been there before.
It was sunny when we started, but it starts rainning at the middle of the way to the top. When we got to the top it stopped rainning for a while. We saw so many kinds of wild plants all the way from the starting point to the top of the mountain.

2005年の夏、山形に帰郷した折、鳥海山に登ってきました。こんなにもたくさんの山野草が咲いているなんて、やっぱり山形はいいところですね。そばも旨いし。温泉もいっぱいあるし。皆さん是非一度は行ってみてください。


Viola biflora (Kibanakomanotume)


Viola verecunda var. fibrillosa (Miyama Tsubo sumire)


Hemerocallis middendorffii var. esculenta (Nikkou Kisuge)


Rubus spectabilis ssp. vernus (Benibana Ichigo)


Geum pentapetalum (Chinguruma)


Schizocodon soldanelloides (Iwakagami)


Phyllodoce aleutica (Ao no tsugazakura)


Gentiana nipponica (Miyama Rindou)


Tori no Umi (Bird's sea)


Cirsium chokaiense (Choukai Azami)


Arenaria merckioides var. chokaiensis (Choukai Fusuma)


Pennelianthus frutescens (Iwa Bukuro)


Campanula lasiocarpa (Iwa Gikyou)


Lilium leichtlinii var. tigrinum (Ko Oniyuri)

Mt. Gassan, Yamagata (August 10th, 2005)

Before we went to Sakata to stay a night before going to Mt. Choukai, we went to Mt. Gassan. We didn't climb up to the top and just walked around the trail for a while, but we could find quite a few flowers there.

月山に立ち寄り、遊歩道を少し歩いてきました。雨が降り出してじっくり見れませんでしたが、いろいろな花が咲いていました。


Geranium yesoense var. nipponicum (Hakusan Fuuro)


Cladothamnus bracteatus (Miyama Hotsutsuji)


Menziesia multiflora (Urajiro Youraku)


Pedicularis nipponica (Ezo Shiogama)


Pedicularis chamissonis var. japonica (Yotsuba Shiogama)