October 20, 2015
Ogawayama is a rock climber's paradise with the nearby mountains covered in several lifetimes worth of rock climbing adventure...
October 16, 2015
Heading out into a windy wet day to test a new line concoction I read about online...
October 10, 2015
The one and only Kadoya Outdoor Shop. A unique business model that more outdoor shops should embody, imho...
October 07, 2015
I risk it all (okay that might be a slight exaggeration) to climb the infamous Mountain of Death also known as Mt. Tanigawa...
October 05, 2015
The second part of my day begins tucked deep into a remote region of the Tanzawa Mountains close to a promising looking babbling keiryu...
October 01, 2015
The end of the Tenkara mountain stream fishing season is September 30. So, I braved the madness to find some trout on the last day of the season...
September 26, 2015
Deep in the Tanzawa Mountains there is a mystical waterfall that had me asking "I wonder what lies above it?" every time I looked upon it. Well I grew tired of wondering and set off to find out...
September 21, 2015
I fully immerse myself in tourist mode in early September ticking off several must see places in the Land of the Rising Sun...
September 18, 2015
I set off on my first multi-day backcountry off the grid tenkara trip deep in the wild lands of Yamagata Prefecture...