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Hokkaido - CryoJano workshop 24. 6. - 1. 7. 2017
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Hokkaido landscape enveiled in a fog after rain.
Landing on Memanbetsu airport in live view.
Abashiri Town in the eastern part of Hokkaido.
Architecture very much resembles the North American Towns.
But not cars.
Panorama of the town across Abashiri River.
Beach of Sea of Okhotsk, where the sea is frozen in the winter.
Interesting marsh trail close to Yobito.
Ground is full of white skunk cabbage.
The beginning of CryoJano excursion at Lake Akan.
"Jet propulsion" boats.
Animal propulsion boats.
Akan Town ...
Starting ascent on Mt. Meakan from Nonaka Hot Springs next day.
Reaching a forest line where dwarf pine (Pinus mugo) starts.
And blooming rhododendron.
Debris flow gully.
Diligent master students listening professores.
Admiring "rock glaciers".
Debate about lava flows.
The stain that shows where you have to go.
Oh, a big mushroom on the rock.
It's rather a ground movement device monitoring activity of the volcano.
Other instrumentation for monitoring and warning ... and Lake Onneto in the distance.
THe debris flow started here.
Above the clouds, which seem to be absent only because of a descending wind on this side of the mountain.
Just a bit more and we are there.
The active main crater of the Mt. Meakan volcano, which lastly erupted in 2006.
Another side-crater.
Towards the highest point at the crater rim.
Here it is.
Well done you two :)
Bernd at the edge.
The crater from the top.
A a side lake.
Patterned ground
Mt. Oakan - a male counterpart of Mt. Meakan (meaning female Akan).
Few portraits: Tatsuya, the trip organiser.
Bernd, the professor.
Håvard
Kohei
Sarah
Vetle
Justyna
Kjetil
Colourful volcanic material.
Fumarole and a lake.
Akan-Fuji in clouds.
More lava flows.
Mekan Kimbai (Sibbaldia miyabei) is a symbol of the mountain.
Descending back, to the lake.
A Japanese Prunus counterpart.
One of their birches.
A sort of Japanese berries.
Bird-shitted-leaves bush ... also called matatabi (Actinidia polygama).
Good to know after we are back :)
The lake lost its blue colour.
Tobiuchi Kotsu is waiting for us.
Exhausting hike ... :)
Lake Kussharo by Kitami Lodge.
At Bihoro pass.
Everybody, except for Bernd is taking photos of
of Kussharo Caldera.
A bamboo grass (Sasa kurilensis) is a very common plant on Hokkaido.
Checking stability of different structures.
Agricultural landscape in the vicinity of Kitami. Hokkaido is known for growing potatoes.
Onion fields.
Beans.
Taisetsu Dam in Daisestsu Mauntains build for hydropower and irrigation.
O-o.
Getting ready for a two-day hike in Daisetsu Mountains, which are the highest mountains on Hokkaido.
Box-like cars are very common in Japan.
Beginning of the national park.
Starting at 1500 m elevation.
And quickly reaching first snow patches.
Sarah and Graham admiring the first view.
Snow, grenness and mists.
Visitor counter.
Above the treeline.
Time for another stop.
And an introduction to Daisetsu Mountains.
Rhododendeon is growing here as well.
Deflation hollow and wind-deformed Pinus mugo.
The CryoJano expedition led by Mamoru Ishikawa.
Enjoying lunch and view.
Patterned ground.
A small viewpoint on the rocks.
The "summit" is called Akadake.
Panorama of Daisetsu Mountains. A lot of snow, which is redistributed by wind, is being accumulated in the snow patches, which remain for the most of the year.
One of the snow patches that made a nivation hollow.
Hanne is telling us more about the nivation processes.
Steepened slope at the contact with snow.
We go for the hut.
A sort of sorted stripes.
Slowly approaching the Hakuun mountain hut.
This must be a freshly released boulder.
And Bernd's explanations followed.
At the hut.
A small place beside the hut were it is allowed to hang out. Otherwise it is forbiden to leave path in Japanese national parks.
An impresive cornice/snow patch.
A modest hut interior.
Yukiko and Kohei are preparing dinner.
Last evening colours.
Toilet.
Last moonrays of the night ...
... before the rain and fog came in the morning. Visit of a permafrost monitoring site.
Temperature loggers.
Ground cracking monitoring.
A borehole.
Some common mountain flowers of this area: Diapensia lapponica and Oxytropis japonica
Loiseleuria procumbens also known as alpine azalea.
Many turf-banked lobes.
A meteorological station that was unfortunately wrecked during the last winter.
Reading out the borehole.
Kristoffer is condensating water :)
Fogged-in on Hokkaidake (2149 m)
Slightly better weather at Kurodake shelter.
At Kurodake (1984 m).
A miniature shrine.
Here it is possible to see what you cannot see.
Exciting way down :)
U-Uuuuuuuu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0XEIGbtuY&feature=youtu.be&t=9s
Vetle liked it.
Håvard is getting hot :)
Trying to stand straight :)
More fun.
Before reaching a chair lift.
A ride through the fog.
Continued by ropeway.
And staying overnight in Sounkyo.
Last glance on Daisetsu Mountains.
Garden flowers in nature: Beardless Rhizome Iris
Siberian lily
An old caldera on a way to Kamishihoro.
Beware of brown bears close to an extrazonal permafrost site.
Unusually cold air coming from the tunnel.
And from spaces between the rocks of talus slope. 3 °C
Trying to find some ice.
A tiny bit.
Reynald found a bigger piece.
Mt. Nukabirafuji from Kamishihoro.
Haymaking
khm.
Trditionally ornamented gardens
In Obihiro.
...
You take a photo of me and I take a photo of you.
Entering a forest close to Obihiro airport.
A site before.
And after mowing.
Yuki is studying earth hummocks here.
They were so kind and excavated one for us.
A lot of cryoturbation
3D-printed-earth-hummock terrain.
»Sebastian, vi må kjøpe det.«
An oak.
Winter snow fleet.
Tokachi-Shikaoi Geopark Visitor Center
Free beer :O
Putting "barbies on the queue"
Vegetable section.
Shikaribetsu Lake before sunrise at 3:30.
The hotel room.
By the lake.
A foot onsen at the foot of the hotel.
By the lake #2
By the lake #3
Checking out more extrazonal permafrost on talus slopes.
O-o.
Obihiro plain.
About formation of such large blocks and volcanic activity in this area.
Diligent master students #2.
Checking out another site.
Maianthemum bifoilum with even more romantic english name: false lily of the valley
Ledum palustre
Azalea
Obvious change in vegetation at air-outflow site.
Trees have very shallow roots here.
Another site with permafrost.
Explanation in Japanese.
Thermal camera image of one of the blowholes.
How can the right car wheel track cross the left one?
Komadome Lake.
Visiting a local dairy farm with homemade ice-cream for the workshop conclusion.
Passing Tomamu ski resort on a way to Sapporo, where an Asian Permafrost Conference on Permafrost started next day.