At the end of the long day !

by Kazu

We felt pain on our thighs even while we got down the steps from the parking lot on the lakeside to the pears.

The perspectives around the lake was shown on the sign beside the lake. Please extend the photo to read the discriptions on the sign written in English and Japanese.

Mt. Tarumae can be seen as if it is lower than Mt. Fuppushi but I am not sure which is higher. What I can say now is Mt. Fuppushi was tougher than Mt. Tarumae.

Based on the description on the sign, Fuppushi is the namesake of the word of the indigenous people in Hokkaido, Ainu, that means "the mountain that has so many spruces peculiar to Hokkaido.