My Favourite Hike in Japan - Mt Shirouma -- 2,932m Nagano

This video is sponsored by Canbar. Killing all the coronavirus. And it just kind of makes me feel moist. Oh yeah. Oh, there's gradients of blue. How did they get all these rocks up here? This is all Disney right now. The set design is amazing. Like the painting. Look at the textures. It's crazy. The rendering on these rocks. What am I doing on this mountain, man? It's insane. It's like 30 degrees. Oh, I really want to swim in it. I don't have any swimmers but I also don't have any shame. I feel like a fairy princess. That was magical. I feel great. It was just what I wanted. I'm ready. I'm ready to hike a mountain. Oh my god. Crazy. Maybe one of the most like varied terrains. Beautiful views either way. Kind of hike that I've ever done. Wow. Does it even need to reach the summit to like be satisfied? This is incredible. Damn Japan. Damn. We haven't been able to see on this side of the mountain before. That's insane. We arrived a little bit later than we planned to. But wow. Shit, this is amazing. So even though the weather wasn't really that great the next morning, luckily it cleared up really beautifully for us on the walk back and I can now safely say that this is without a doubt 100% my favorite hike that I've ever done in my entire life. I can't describe to you how many times I just kept looking at the view and then turning around and looking at the other view and just being at a loss of words. It was incredible. It was a very difficult hike but it was worth every step of the way. As per usual, I'll get into the details of the trip, the route that we took and you know anything else that you may need to know in just a minute as well as some blippers. But first I would like to tell you about this video sponsor which is Canva. Round of applause for the new sponsor on the channel. So Canva is basically the holy grail of professional looking templates. 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I think I'm going to be using Canva a lot more in the future so stay tuned for that. But anyway, if you'd like to get started please use the link in the description below to get a 45-day extended free trial of Canva Pro. Thank you Canva for sponsoring this video and thank you to you for supporting my sponsors which help support me. Anyway, Mount Shirouma, my favorite hike in Japan. I could not love this place anymore if I tried. It was so incredibly beautiful. The whole entire way we just had 360 views of just clouds and mountains and cliffs and really really beautiful terrain. I loved it so much. So we parked the car at Tsurugaike station. We took two like ropeways up like a gondola, a ropeway, something like that and then from there online it says it's like a six to seven hour hike to the hut. But because we were filming and taking photos and swimming we ended up taking about eight to eight and a half hours, something like that. I chose this route in particular because it meant that you could hike along the ridge which is now my new favorite thing to get exposed 360 panoramic views the whole entire way. And then the next day we were going to hike down this other route which is apparently it's more popular. It's like this giant snowy valley like all this snow that's there year round like middle of summer and it's covered in snow. But then the weather was really crap and then we decided that for safety reasons we'd just go down the way that we came just to be sure that we don't get lost or something like that. And I'm glad we did but the weather did end up clearing up beautifully for us later and yeah it was just stunning. I loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it. So obviously we got here by car but I think I'm pretty sure you can do it by train and then a bus, a bus or two. Look it's always a lot harder to get to these places with public transport but I'm pretty sure it is possible. So I'll leave whatever information I can find in the description down below. Yeah apart from that definitely have good hiking boots. I saw a couple of guys wearing just like regular running shoes and they were just slipping and sliding on all these rocks. So yeah hiking boots would be really good but not the boots that I had because they were terrible. But anyway I'm in the market for some new hiking boots. I think as this like hiking season is kind of starting to wrap up a little bit in Japan when it comes into winter and I probably won't be doing any hiking in winter not after last year. I think I'll just kind of do some more like informational videos how I actually plan my trips like I mentioned in the last one. What I pack in my bag like the food that I eat when I'm hiking like what to know about hiking in Japan or just like going on little smaller trips to more I don't know nature's places in Japan because there's a lot of information that you should know if you're gonna go and do that. But yeah yep that's it that's uh that's what I've got to say. Thank you so much for watching this video all the way to the end. You guys are great. Thank you to Canva for sponsoring this video. Thank you to Chris even though he's lingering I think in the kitchen listening to what I'm saying. Go follow him on Instagram if you want to see more of his FPV footage. It's all really really amazing. Thank you for watching. Here are some bloopers. The wild photographer sits in the grass and waits. You look like you're choking yourself. It feels like I'm choking myself. This flat ground is amazing. A lot of rocks. Because it's rocky. No no no no. I'm gonna roll an ankle. It's not your fault. Oh hi. Chris I'm good. I'm filming a video. I'm filming the outro to my video. So you can't be here. No I won't bother you it's alright. Oh my god. No I'm just getting into the ad sponsored segment. I can't do it. I can't sell out with someone else in the room. I can't do it with you here Chris. It's too much. Is that why you left the work the other day? Yeah. I know you're listening.