Cang is spending two weeks in Japan and he organized a hiking trip to Mount Mitsutoge near Mount Fuji. As it turned out, Cang is addicted to hiking and goes every week, twice as much on vacations. He is also a scheduling fanatic as can be seen in his incredibly detailed itinerary (which he carries around in a blue binder). We had to get up really early to arrive in time after a two-hour train ride, which led to the discovery of some weak spots in JR's ticketing system. The 14 km hike itself (climbing 1100 to a peak of 1785 meters) took more than the advertised 6-7 hours and although the weather was pleasant, we were surrounded by dense clouds completely hiding Mt. Fuji from us, even from the official viewing place (Mt. Tenjo), which was our last stop and from where we down to Kawaguchi-ko by cable car to end our trip. We did not meet a lot of people on the way, probably because it was Thursday ( I was taking advantage of a company regulation that working days are more or less up to every team's discretion).