Mt. Yotei-Zan (羊蹄山) Kyogoku Route
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.23 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,199 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3,199 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,207 ft
- TrailRank
- 35
- Min elevation
- 1,213 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 6 hours 37 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1319
- Uploaded
- February 28, 2020
- Recorded
- February 2020
near Kyōgoku, Hokkaido (Japan)
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Itinerary description
Climbing Yotei-Zan from NE aspect. Nice mellow touring at the begging that starts getting steepest arriving at the end of the trees line. Like almost every volcano is affected by the wind on the summit so depends on the conditions you might need crampons and piolets from 1500mts. We did it with ski boots and the grip was enough.
After the summit, we ski down into the crater on the SE aspect and we found crusty snow after few sunnies and warm days. If you are eager to get good snow the best idea is to surround the edge of the crater and ski down the E and N aspects.
What we like most about this route were the many choices to go down on all the shoots/couloirs that you can pick the rick hillside to get good snow. If you choose one of the shoots you have to be careful with the cracks on the bottom of the galley.
We would like to encourage you to ask excuse to de mountain before going, bring your stuff back and park only where is allowed.
After the summit, we ski down into the crater on the SE aspect and we found crusty snow after few sunnies and warm days. If you are eager to get good snow the best idea is to surround the edge of the crater and ski down the E and N aspects.
What we like most about this route were the many choices to go down on all the shoots/couloirs that you can pick the rick hillside to get good snow. If you choose one of the shoots you have to be careful with the cracks on the bottom of the galley.
We would like to encourage you to ask excuse to de mountain before going, bring your stuff back and park only where is allowed.
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Crater
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First Couloir/ Shoot
Waypoint
2,037 ft
Return
A good point to get out of the galley and keep having enough speed to return to the parking.
Summit
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Summit
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Thank you for the write-up and route! We've added a link to it in our write-up of a similar ski touring route up the Kyogoku Trail (on our site...can't seem to post links here in comments on Wikiloc).