Numa-meguri Hiking Trail
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- Distance
- 2.73 mi
- Elevation gain
- 545 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 545 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,500 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 3,991 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 55 minutes
- Time
- one hour 56 minutes
- Coordinates
- 715
- Uploaded
- August 15, 2023
- Recorded
- August 2023
near Asahidake Onsen, Hokkaido (Japan)
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Itinerary description
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Small hiking trail through forests inhabited by bears. It is reached by car along a forest road several kilometers long. Before doing the route, only open in the first half of the day, it is mandatory to go through the interpretation center, where a video (in Japanese and English) is shown with instructions on how to behave to avoid encountering bears and what to do if there is such a meeting. They also sell bells that can be carried to warn the bears of our presence, and a spray that scares them away in case of an attack (we did not encounter or attack). Bear trails are marked in situ with CD-shaped signs and the symbols for footprints, plants and droppings, to indicate where a bear has trodden, eaten or left a drop (which look a bit similar, and somewhat exaggerated, to those of elephants...). In addition, they indicate the date when it occurred. Although no bears are sighted, the route is very beautiful and interesting as it takes us through a primary forest with a wide variety of vegetation, passing by rivers and streams and small swamps. It even has an area where sulfur geysers can be seen noisily coming to the surface. There weren't too many hikers, mostly Japanese (and pretty much all wearing their little bells).
They only let us do half of the circular path, turning it into a round trip, because the bears were in the other half, as they explained to us at the interpretation center.
They only let us do half of the circular path, turning it into a round trip, because the bears were in the other half, as they explained to us at the interpretation center.
Waypoints
Lake
4,476 ft
Midori-numa pond
Up to this point the path was open; instead of doing the whole circular route we had to come back at this point. It was closed due to the presence of bears.
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Intersection
4,187 ft
Intersección
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