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| バス停までの道 (Walking to the next bus stop) |
淀川小屋－紀元杉－ヤクスギランド
一晩中雨は降り続けて、朝もまだ雨。外に出るとテント場は水びたし。小屋で寝てよかったー。３日目は淀川小屋から紀元杉のバス停までの長くても２時間位。余裕を持って出発したら、バスの時刻の１時間前にバス停に着いてしまった。雨の中、紀元杉を見に行ったり紅茶を作ったりして時間をつぶす。ところがバスの時刻の２０分経ってもバスが来ない。仕方なく、とりあえず次のバス停まで歩くことに。２時間くらいでヤクスギランドに着いた。
大雨でヤクスギランドから紀元杉間の道は通行止めになったとのこと。ヤクスギランドまでの道はまだ平気なので次のバスを待つことに。バスの時刻の１時間位前になったとき、ヤクスギランドまでの道も通行止めになったとのこと。もう一つ下のバス停まで歩くことに。
また歩き始めたとき、ありがたく車が止まってくれた。朝、淀川小屋で会った夫婦だった。わたしたちが、案房まで降りようと一日掛けている間にその夫婦は宮之浦岳まで登って帰るところだった。
Yodogawa hut - Kigensugi - Yakusugi Land
Third day of the hike would have been an easy hike to the bus stop. It would have just taken us 2 hours at the most if it wasn't for the torrential rain. The plan was to catch the earlier one of the two buses that goes from Kigen-sugi to Anbo.
After a whole night of heavy rain, we woke up to more rain and we were glad that we slept in the hut as the camping ground was flooded. We set off around 7.30 which gave us more than enough time to get to the bus stop in time. We walked to Yodogawa trailhead which was basically like walking in a stream after all the rain. We continued our walk to the bus stop with more than an hour to kill in the rain. We checked out Kigen-sugi and made some tea waiting for the bus.
Finally it was the bus time. But twenty minutes passed with no sign of the bus. With no phone reception and no radio reception, we had no choice but to continue our hike down to the next stop to Yakusugi Land, which was another 2 hour hike. There, we found out that the road was closed because of the heavy rain but the second bus of the day was still scheduled to come to Yakusugi Land, so we decided to wait for the second bus just after three.
About an hour before the bus time, one of the staff came and told us that the second bus was cancelled but there was another bus we could catch down at the next stop. A few minutes into another walk down to the bus stop, a car stopped for us. It turned out to be a couple that we met at Yodogawa hut in the morning when they were on their way up to Mt. Miyanoura. The whole time we were trying to get to Anbo, they had gone up Mt. Miyanoura and back.
