So I am at home at present :p and I can spend some more time to tell my
Fuji experience.
First, you have to decide from which point you are about to climb,
given that 2400 m (5th station) is the maximum altitude that can be
reached by motor vehicles (the Fuji is 3376 m high), and the moment you
wan to climb, given that is traditionnal to see the sunrise from the
summit, which implies you would have to climb in the dark.
Notice that the Fuji-san is a some kind of a national symbol for Japan,
and that the summit has been claimed by one (if not several) shinto
shrines, making it a sort of holy or sacred place. Unicycling on it
might be considered outrageous, or may be not at all - only a Japanese
could answer that question.
So, let's imagine you want to climb from the 5th station, like I did.
At the beginning, the trek is of rough ground or big cobblestones.
Things worsen later when it becomes very dusty volcano lava, and at
other places big rocks. A very skilled unicyclist could probably go up
the rocks, but probably not so any. Remember you have 976 m to climb,
and maybe a third of that vertical distance is made of rocks.
Another possibility would be to climb using the descending trek, that
has much less slope (does zigzags to lessen the slope) and no rocks.
But it is made of dust very your wheel would sink, making wheeling very
cumbersome.
Also note that at 3376 m, breathing is somewhat difficult. Small oxygen
bottles are for sale at some stations (I whish I bought one). Also it
is quite cold !
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mz
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