The Best Headlamp for Most Hikers Of all the items in your pack, few carry higher stakes than a headlamp. A sleeping pad that fails means sleeping on the ground; a headlamp that fails at the wrong moment can be genuinely dangerous. On a dark...
The Actual Costs, and What a Blog Like This Earns Around 450 posts, roughly 19,000 page views a month, and a question I get surprisingly often: “What does it cost to run the blog and does it make any money?” This post attempts to answer that...
My Personal Top Fuji-View Hikes in Japan After 13 years of hiking and writing about the trails of Kanto and beyond, I’ve put together this guide to the best hikes in Japan for Mt. Fuji views – twenty-one personal favourites spanning prefectures from...
Hiked on Mar 14, 2026 . Onnazaka-toge 女坂峠 – Shoji-toge 精進峠 – Panorami-dai パノラマ台 Duration: 5 hours Distance: 8.5 km Elevation change: 512 metres Highest point: 1422 metres Start: Shoji bus stop Finish: Panorama-dai-shita bus stop ...