Two Mountains, One Day (Part 1 – Oyama-san)

At the moment the nights are really cold, but during the day the temperature goes up to 25 degrees and each morning we have thick fog. I heard that if you were to go up to a nearby mountain early in the morning, you pop up above the fog which settles in the valleys. So Maki and me set off early last Saturday morning to see if it was true. As we drove up the mountain a hazy sun started to come into view. Suddenly there was blue sky above and a sea of fog beneath us, like we were on a white, fluffy cloud. Small islands of hill tops dotted the white horizon and the trees near their base blurred into the whiteness. It was rather odd to see as we are so used to see clouds above us, when you see them below, you feel like you're not sure which way is up anymore. Its one of the views that will stay with me forever. We stayed about an hour as watched as the white dissipated and cleared, revealing Yunogo town below.