One of my favourite blogs is Batish.net. I read every post.
The photos are particularly well done. Almost Japanese in their elegant simplicity, though the author is an expat.
A good example:
The hike up was one of the most challenging trails I have come across in Japan in terms of terrain – a seven-hundred meter gain in less than 1.5 km. While it was short enough that, even after a leisurely morning, we reached the summit just in time for sunset, much of it was almost vertical …. It was satisfying to me to see that everyone made it despite admissions that this was the most difficult trek they had ever done. …
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