A YAMAP activity log describes a walk from Shibu Pass, called the highest point on a national highway, toward Yokote-yama after viewing Yugama.
Logged figures
- Total time: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rest: 51 minutes
- Distance: 2.7 km
- Ascent / descent: 175 m / 177 m
- Course constant: 4, labeled easy, calculated from a standard time of 1 hour 8 minutes
The entry also notes a registered hiking plan and GPX data. Checkpoint times in the source text are fragmented, so they are not restated here. An average pace is mentioned, but no pace figure is given.
The writer says they had pan gratin at Yokote-yama Hutte and looked over colorful autumn leaves toward Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane and the Yoshigadaira wetlands. They describe the Gunma trip as enjoyable.
Access, as the author reports it
They say they walked without entering the prohibited area within 500 m of the Kusatsu-Shirane crater. The way up from near Fureai parking was loose scree and steep, and they judged descending that way unsafe. After going down in the other direction, they found a no-entry rope at the bottom. From above, they could not tell whether that was the regular route or why it was closed.
A later note says a mountain friend checked with a government office. According to that secondhand account, the office seemed not to be aware of, or not responsible for, the route on the side without the rope. The writer then asks whether ground outside the 500 m zone is left to each person at their own risk. The log does not independently confirm the office’s position.
Original activity: https://yamap.com/activities/52123393
