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Berkåk → Trondheim (Nidaros Cathedral) on the St. Olav Way, six days north through Trøndelag
With Kevin Kelly and six others
City walks around London, about Aug 29 – Sep 7 and again from Sep 20 (either side of Norway)
Marble Hill–225th St (Broadway Lift Bridge) → Highbridge Park → Morris-Jumel Mansion / Sylvan Terrace → Manhattanville Coffee → Sugar Hill → Hamilton Heights → West Harlem → 125th St → Central Park west side → Broadway/7th Ave → Times Square → Penn Station → West Village → Tribeca → Oculus → Battery Park (Dead Rabbit for oysters)
With Michael George (National Geographic photographer)
Tribeca → Brooklyn Bridge → Carroll Gardens; the Met with a retired Columbia professor; Alex Wolfe’s ‘Noticing: Public Spaces of Midtown’ route (NYPL Stavros Niarchos → Tudor City → St Peter’s → 6½ Ave)
With Alex Wolfe and a retired Columbia professor
Porto (bus out to Agudela) → Póvoa de Varzim → coastal boardwalks north (Vila do Conde, Esposende, Viana) → A Guarda (5-minute boat across the Minho into Spain) → Oia → Cabo Silleiro lighthouse; then drove to Santiago for Easter Sunday mass (Apr 5)
With Kevin Kelly and six others
Nishizaka-machi, Tateyama, Minami-Yamate lanes, Glover Garden, Urakami, Fuku-no-yu
Himekaidō research around Hamamatsu, then the Tōkaidō over Satta Pass — looking more than walking, with John McBride
With John McBride (‘The Book of John’, writing a Tōkaidō book)
Misakiguchi (bus into Misaki village) → coast and docks → plateau → Koajiro Nature Preserve → Miura fields → Route 134 → Nagasaka, Ashina, Akiya → Hayama → Zushi (planned continuation over Kotsubo to Kamakura abandoned in sleet)
With a group of unnamed friends (‘dorks’)
Local Tokyo shrine → past the Imperial Palace and moat → Marunouchi → Denny’s
Arrive Ena (Ichikawa Ryokan) Dec 2 → Ena → Magome 19.2 km → Magome → Ōtsumago 10 km → Ōtsumago → Nagiso (TIES campground yurts, −8°C) 12 km → Ne-no-ue Pass → Nojiri → Ōkuwa → train Suhara → Kiso-Fukushima 22 km → Kiso-Fukushima → Torii Pass → Narai 24 km → Narai → Kiso-Hirasawa → Niekawa 10 km (Villa Azalea, Lake Suwa)
With Kevin Kelly and seven others
Takenami / Jūsan Pass → Ena → Magome → Tsumago → Ōkuwa → Kiso-Fukushima → Narai → Niekawa (northern end), then back south: Niekawa → Narai → Harano (train hop) → Kiso-Fukushima → Ōkuwa → Nagiso → Magome → Ochiai (Nakatsugawa)
With John McBride (‘Book of John’) for the last seven days and David for two days (Oct 12–13)
Pop-up: (the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains
Aoyama Cemetery → Gaienmae → Omotesandō / Jingūmae 5-chōme → Miyashita Park → Shibuya Crossing → Center Gai → Tomigaya
With Sam Holden
Karuizawa woods and back roads from the Manpei Hotel; planned old-Nakasendō climb to Usui Pass abandoned
Manhattan up and down (Three Lives & Co., West Village); SF Botanical Garden and the Wharf; Rattlesnake Ledge (Seattle) in the rain with his sister; Beacon NY with Sam Anderson; a ‘very short walk’ in the hills behind Rich Roll’s LA studio
With Rich Roll, Sam Anderson and his biological sister
Sarria → Portomarín → … → O Pino → Santiago de Compostela (final stretch of the Camino Francés); Craig arrived via Madrid
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Yamaguchi City streets and the Hagi Ōkan (old road over the mountains to Hagi on the Sea of Japan)
With Lucas B.B. and Papersky magazine team
Ise → Kii-Nagashima → Owase → Katsuura (the tuna market) → Kushimoto → Nachi → Hongū → Totsukawa, by rental car (≈700 km driven), with short walks
With Asamura-san and friends at Nachi
Pop-up: About a Nightingale
Akasaka → Yotsuya → Kōjimachi → Sanbanchō → Yasukuni Shrine → Jimbōchō → Ochanomizu → Kanda → Ueno Park → Nezu → Yanaka (Denny’s)
Karuizawa back roads over the holidays
Old shopping street of a town near Morioka (TV special), plus Morioka city
With Tenshin Kimura
Cowley/Cheltenham → Painswick → King’s Stanley → Wotton-under-Edge → Cold Ashton → Bath (southern Cotswold Way)
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Tsuruoka → up the Haguro stone staircase (2,446 steps) to the shukubō for the aki-no-mineiri festival
With John McBride
Just outside Ubud → ‘the tree’ → jungle/village platforms → Lake Tamblingan → waterfall café → the sea; the six-day ‘Tree to Sea’ route plus one added day at the front
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Kyoto (about 6 a.m.) → Ōtsu (Bashō’s grave) → Ishibe → Seki → Yokkaichi → boat across Nagoya Bay (Hirai-san) → Miya/Nagoya → Okazaki → Toyohashi (rest) → Hamamatsu → Kakegawa → Fujieda → Shizuoka (Abekawa Mochi) → Okitsu → Yoshiwara → Mishima → Hakone (Amazake-chaya, near-typhoon) → Hakone-Yumoto → Odawara → Ōiso → Hiratsuka → Fujisawa (Yugyō-ji) → Totsuka → Hodogaya → Kanagawa → Kawasaki → Shinagawa → Nihonbashi (May 31)
With David on May 19
Pop-up: The Return to Pachinko Road
Morioka streets and the Mikoda morning market, on camera with Tamori for two days
With Tamori
Exploratory walks on the old roads of Kōchi (Yusuhara and around) with John McBride, a history pass for the book
With John McBride
Yamaguchi City: Ichinosaka River, Rurikō-ji, Jōei-ji, Churamu, Log Coffee, Mizunoue kiln at Tōshun-ji
Misedani → 22 km north through the ‘baka-magari’ → (cab back) → Funaki Bridge → Misezaka → Takihara-no-Miya → Tsuzurato Pass → Kii-Nagashima (kissa Kirin) → Furusato Onsen → Aiga Station (Magose Pass skipped; train to Owase)
With Chris and Matt
Khun Wang (Royal Project, Doi Inthanon ≈1,500 m) → Seclee → Mama → Chailai → Campiness → Namrae → Little Village → Tamarind Village, Chiang Mai; villages, rafts down a river, an elephant camp
With Kevin Kelly and ten others
Tokyo Disneyland edge (Urayasu, Chiba border) → central Tokyo → Tachikawa → western hinterlands → Mt Kumotori summit (2,017 m) on the last day: about 34 km up from Okutama and down the shorter side, then a bus; new hotel each night, full pack
With David on the final day
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO³
Matsumoto streets (Doon Shokudo, Hangout Coffee, Kauhiya #3, Menshu Takenaka) on a free day after the TBOT fine-art press check
Uguisudani Station → Iriya → Yanaka / Nezu / Sendagi (Kayaba Coffee, Asakura Museum, Kyōōji, Yanaka Ginza) → Snake Alley → Geidai → Ueno Park → Ueno Station
St Bees → Ennerdale → Rosthwaite → Grasmere → Glenridding → Shap → Kirkby Stephen → Keld → Reeth → Richmond → Ingleby Cross → Clay Bank Top → Glaisdale → Robin Hood’s Bay (Lakeland incl. Red Pike, High Stile, Haystacks, Innominate Tarn; Nine Standards Rigg; North York Moors)
With Peter
Fukushima (Mingus) → Yonezawa (Blue Note) → Yamagata (Octet) → Natori (Pablo) → Sendai (Count) → Ichinoseki (Basie) → Morioka (Johnny, S, Pannonica, Dante) → Akita (Rondo) → Hirosaki (Suga) → Aomori (Blue Note, Disk) → Hakodate (Bop, Leaf) → Sapporo (Jamaica, Slow Boat), by train
Pop-up: BASIE!BOP!JAMAICA!
Edgewood Park, Noe Valley, SoMa/Embarcadero, Apple Park, Wunderlich County Park, Ring Mountain, Half Moon Bay coastal trail, Rockaway Beach (Pacifica), Crystal Springs; a hike above the bay with Enrique Allen
With Ben Blumenrose and Enrique Allen
Bits of the Kiso-ji — Nagiso / Nojiri → Ne-no-ue Pass → Tsumago → Magome area; Kiso-Fukushima base
With Robin Sloan and Kathryn Tomajan
Streets of Brooklyn and a bit of Manhattan; Sam Anderson’s Manhattan walking tour
With Sam Anderson (Manhattan tour)
Bits of the Kiso-ji between Shiojiri/Narai and Nakatsugawa, based in Kiso-Fukushima (Kumata kissa, Iwaya inn)
With Chris and Matt
Sapporo city (jazz kissa research); bus with a friend’s tour group to Kan Yasuda’s snowed-in Arte Piazza in Bibai
With a good friend leading a tour (unnamed)
Morioka — Konyachō, Uchimaru castle district, riverside; Kufuya, Clammbon, Hataya, Nagasawa Coffee, Booknerd, Azumaya, Rieber, Waltz, Johnny’s
With Akihiko Baba (Azumaya) as guide
Seven daybreak walks (≈6:45 a.m.) radiating 15–20 km from a central Tokyo base: Yoyogi/Shinjuku/Nogata; Rainbow Bridge/Tsukishima; Skytree/Shibamata; rest day; Yamanote loop (2 days); kissa walk to Waseda; Shibuya, Miyashita Park, 1964 Olympic housing, Kagurazaka, Ebisu
With W. David Marx on Jan 22
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO²
Ise-ji southbound: Okajimaya → Misedani → Kiseisō → Minoshima; Owase → Misuzu (Oct 19–23); then Nakahechi: Dainichi-goe (Oct 24), Yunomine → Hongū via Hosshinmon (Oct 25), Koguchi → Nachi, 16 km with 1,000 m+ gain (Oct 26); Craig ‘cobbled together a luggage forwarding service’ since none exists on the Ise-ji
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Yunomine loop via Hosshinmon and Dainichi-goe (Oct 5); Shikō → Banze Pass → Ukegawa → Hongū (Oct 6); Koguchi → Nachi (Oct 8); Kata → Kumano City, 22 km (Oct 10); Kashiwazaki → Furusato Onsen, 26 km (Oct 11); Owase → Magose Pass → Aiga → Minose (Oct 12); Misedani → Kii-Kashiwazaki, 15 km (Oct 14); Ise → Tochihara, 27 km (Oct 15); Misedani → Tochihara, 15 km (Oct 16); trains between sections, a taxi research day (Oct 7) and rest days (Oct 9, 13)
With John McBride
Pop-up: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Seven morning walks radiating like a pinwheel from the same inn in Azabu-Jūban, each breaking out past the Yamanote loop: Kichijōji, Ikebukuro, Kita-Senju, Jinbōchō, Sunamachi, Ōmori, Tamagawa (Maruko Bridge over the Tama River on the last day)
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO
Venice back-streets (‘ippon ura’), early mornings; Giardini della Biennale and the Arsenale; four nights
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
‘Strange walks in London, then Paris’ between the Cotswolds and Italy
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
Seven-day village-to-village loop around the northern Cotswolds on the Cotswold Way, Winchcombe Way, Gloucestershire Way and Windrush Way (≈3 days on the official Cotswold Way); Bourton-on-the-Water → Cheltenham stage; luggage forwarded inn to inn
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
Hakone, parts on the old Tōkaidō (stone-paved ishidatami and the pass); three nights at the Fujiya Hotel
With friends
Unknown — ‘just a few days’
With Chris and Matt
Hakodate → Morioka → Sakata → Matsumoto → Tsuruga → Onomichi → (Shimanami Kaidō by bicycle, ≈80 km) → Matsuyama → Yamaguchi (city walks Dec 8–9) → Karatsu (Yōyokaku) → Kagoshima; three nights per city, walk-only within cities, trains/boats between, no planes
Pop-up: Tiny Barber, Post Office
Nishi-Ōdai Regulated Utilization Area 10 km guided loop (guide Mori-san + two rangers); 4 a.m. sunrise hike around Higashi-Ōdai to the Hidegatake platform
With wondertrunk&co group of 8 others, Mori-san (guide) and two park rangers
Hinaga Oiwake, Yokkaichi (where Tōkaidō and Ise-ji split) → Ise Kaidō ≈80 km → Ise Grand Shrine → Ise-ji down the coast (Kii-Nagashima, Owase, Kumano City; Yakiyama Pass skipped by train, Owase → Mikisato) → inland to Hongū → Koguchi → (bus and train in a downpour) → Nachi → Ōhechi around the southern tip (Kushimoto, Susami) → Tanabe (Jun 2) → Takijiri (Jun 3), no return to Hongū
With a friend on May 15 (Ise → Meki Pass)
Pop-up: Where are all the Nightingales?
Isobe → Yokokawa → Usui Pass (the old Nakasendō climb) → Karuizawa
With Chris and Matt
Urawa → Warabi → Itabashi → Nihonbashi along the old Nakasendō, the road’s first stage walked in reverse
With David
Kyoto → Chūshojima (Dec 3, 15 km); then Asuka → Kayamori → Imo-tōge → Yoshino River (Dec 5) — the Tōkaidō epilogue days
Front door in Kamakura (Daibutsu Kiridōshi) → Totsuka → Fujisawa → Hakone → Mishima → Okitsu → Shizuoka → Fujieda → Hamamatsu → Toyohashi → Okazaki → Nagoya → Kuwana (walked the leg ‘normally by boat’) → Seki → Suzuka Pass → Minakuchi → Kusatsu → Kyoto (Sanjō Ōhashi); Totsuka → Kawasaki walked Oct 24–25 as a lead-in
With Alex Smith and friends as far as Totsuka on the first day and David on Nov 22, his 50th birthday
Pop-up: Pachinko Road
Totsuka → Hodogaya → Kanagawa-juku → Kawasaki → Shinagawa → Nihonbashi
With W. David Marx
Kyoto — temples, shrines, gardens incl. Shigemori Mirei’s residence; ‘a million nooks’
Kanazawa — station to downtown, gardens, tea districts, castle grounds; walks at sunset because of the heat
Friend’s house in Karuizawa → back neighbourhoods → Manpei Hotel; planned Usui Pass → Yokokawa the next day rained out
Kamakura → along the beach and inland lanes → Hayama (fish shop, poki-don lunch) → home
≈12 km between two Saitama printers (May 20, 14,000 steps); ≈1 h walking each way + 10k steps through NW Tokyo back alleys on later visits (Jun 11, Jun 26, Jul 10)
Kyoto Isshū Trail, Higashiyama section — 24 km, 1,479 m of climbing
Home → old kiridōshi pass → ridgeline above the tunnel → yagura caves → stairs past a shrine → Fuji-view road → wooded ridgeline toward the ocean → home; 7–10 km, ≈65 flights of stairs, ≈2 h; daily new-path rule in the hills behind the house
Pop-up: Pop-Up Walk 002 — Behind the Buddha
Iwami Ginzan silver-mine town (Ōmori) → Yunotsu–Okidomari trail → Yunotsu onsen town
With John McBride and a hired local guide (retired elementary-school teacher with a sickle)
Day 1: Yamaguchi City → 42 switchbacks → Itadō Pass (Rokken tea-house ruins). Day 2: Sasanami / Michi-no-eki Asahi → Naka-no Pass → Issho Valley → Akiragi → Meiji stone tunnel → Hagi (24 km). Yamaguchi → Hōfu leg (≈13 km) not walked
With John McBride (scouting a tour)
A small quadrant of LA — reservoir, lakes, hillside enclaves; 12-hr Amtrak Oakland → LA first
≈5 km of the Saba Kaidō (mackerel road) from Obama toward Kyoto; Myōtsūji, Jingūji, morning fish market
With Bin Sugawara (poet), Jérôme Quilbeuf (chef) and Obama tourism-bureau guides
Ise Jingū → Kawazoe → Ise-Kashiwazaki → Furusato Onsen (Pop-Up Walk day, Dec 4) → Owase (rest day Dec 6) → Mikisato → seven-pass day into Kumano City (Sun Dec 8) → 25 km along Shichiri-mihama to Shingū (Mon Dec 9)
Pop-up: Pop-Up Walk 001 — Ise-Ji + SW945 season 3
Northern Kyushu survey — Karatsu (Nakazato/Ryuta kiln, two nights at Yōyokaku), Saga pottery villages, Nagasaki/Dejima; ‘40% walking, 20% museums, 30% pottery’
With private tour group
Guilin → karst country → Yulong River (bamboo rafts a few km) → Yangshuo Mountain Retreat (Yangshuo Heritage Trail)
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Back alleys and main shopping street of Kamakura in a blackout, by moonlight
Oze marsh plank-ways, two nights in yamagoya mountain huts, ascent of Hiuchigatake (2,356 m, ≈1,200 m gain, +200 m wrong-turn re-ascent)
With Chris
Kyrgyz mountain valley (≈2,500 m, Soviet sanatorium, glacier, horse games) → 8-hr train to Baikonur → ‘many-kilometer walk of the Cosmodrome’ → Astana
With Kevin Kelly and three others
Park Slope, Central Park, Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge at dusk, Washington Square, East Village, High Line → Hudson Yards
With a buddy (East Village stamp-shop hunt)
Yudono-san torii → old Rokujūri-goe mountain road → Haguro / Tsuruoka, official Haguro Shrine ascetic walk in full white yamabushi kit
With thirteen yamabushi (Haguro Shrine)
Shingū → Kumano City → Kōbō Daishi footprint spring → Owase → fishing villages and passes of the Kii coast → Kii-Nagashima/Kihoku; stopped ≈2 days short of Ise; final SW945 recorded at Ise Jingū (Takanomiya)
With Chris for the final stretch
Pop-up: SW945 season 2 (Shingū → Ise leg)
Yoshino → Sanjōgatake (Ōmine-sanji) → Misen → Shakagatake → Ōmine ridgeline (camping on ledges) → Tamaki Jinja (camped) → Kumano Hongū Taisha / Oyunohara
With John and the great Asamura-san
Pop-up: SW945 season 2 (Kyoto → Hongū leg)
Kamakura (Daibutsu hiking course) → Yokohama → Tokyo/Nihonbashi → Urawa → Saitama pachinko row → Usui Pass → Karuizawa (Mampei Hotel, day 9) → Wada Pass → Shimosuwa → Shiojiri → Kiso-ji (Narai, Tsumago, Magome) → Ōi → Mitake → Gifu → Sekigahara → Hikone/Maibara → Kusatsu → Ōtsu (Bashō’s grave, day 25) → Kyoto (Sanjō Ōhashi)
With Alex Smith for the first 15 km and David for two days
Pop-up: SW945 season 1 (binaural podcast, 25 episodes) + The SMS Project (Apr 15–May 14 2019)
Walks ‘in the mountains west of Tokyo’ near an unnamed favourite bath (location intentionally withheld)
With an unnamed bathing companion
≈30 km around Manhattan over the week
Hostel in Misaki on Dec 30, then a ten-hour walk up through the hills of the Miura Peninsula ‘the whole way back up to Kamakura’ on Dec 31
With Chris
Four days of the Ōmine Okugake-michi checking huts and water sources; a 12-hour third day; went over a 30 m edge in the sasa at twilight and was saved by a tree root
With John
Last ≈120 km of the Camino Portugués, Tui (Spanish border) → Santiago de Compostela; train Madrid → Vigo between the two Caminos
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
St-Jean-Pied-de-Port → over the Pyrenees → Roncesvalles → Pamplona (c. Sep 18) → Estella and on; ≈140 km of the ‘standard’ French Camino
With Oli — ‘the first person to walk the Camino de Santiago in jeans and Nike sneakers’
Haguro / Gassan / Yudono (Dewa Sanzan) shugyō over ~a week in white robes and jikatabi — ‘running up and down Gassan in the cruel heart of summer’; plus the 60-Ri Goe Kaidō ‘again’ that year
With yamabushi training cohort (Haguro Shrine)
Karuizawa (Manpei Hotel) → old Nakasendō over the Usui Pass → Yokokawa
Island-hopping the lesser-known art islands of the Setonaikai from Takamatsu (Awashima, Takamishima; Noguchi’s garden museum); ‘napped in the middle of open-air installations’
With John McBride
Kōyasan → Ōmata → Obako-tōge (Mar 30) → Miura-guchi → Totsukawa Onsen → Hongū → Koguchi → Dogiri-zaka (Ōgumotori-goe) → Nachi Taisha; Kohechi southbound then Nakahechi east — ‘a kind of reverse++ of the path I took in Koya Bound’
With M&M for the first three days
Kii-Tanabe → Takijiri (Shiomi-tōge, Feb 14); Yunomine → Funatama (Akagi-goe, Feb 22); Hayatama → Nachi (Feb 26); Kii-Tanabe → Takijiri (Mar 1–2)
Harajuku/Omotesandō scouting (Jan 15), then ‘Day 2’–‘Day 4’ across the city (Jan 16–19)
Shin-etsu Trail ridge walk on the Nagano/Niigata border (Sekida mountains), days 1 and 3–6 recorded
Rokujūrigoe Kaidō pilgrim road, Yamagata (Shōnai → Dewa Sanzan direction), 3 recorded days; Haguro-san / Yudono-san area
With John and a Walk Japan group
Hongū → Yunomine (Dainichi-goe) → Hongū → Koguchi (Kogumotori-goe) → Nachi (Ōgumotori-goe)
Takijiri → Takahara → Tsugizakura → Hosshinmon
Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi → Kōyasan (Dec 30), New Year’s Eve on the mountain (Dec 31)
New Year’s Eve in a Kōyasan temple lodging, then the ≈24 km Chōishi-michi (Kudoyama → Kōyasan) — done in T-shirts one year, abandoned after a few km in knee-deep snow another year
With hiking buddies (unnamed)
Nakahechi around Hongū: Hosshinmon/Yunomine → Hongū → Koguchi → Dogiri-zaka (Ōgumotori-goe) → Nachi (5 day-tracks)
With Kevin Kelly and Hugh Howey
Hida Kaidō day, then Nojiri → Tsumago → Magome → Ōi (Ena) → Hosokute → Mitake along the Nakasendō
With John
Takijiri → Takahara → Tsugizakura → Hosshinmon → Hongū → Yunomine → Totsukawa Onsen → Miura-guchi → Ōmata → Kōyasan (Nakahechi then Kohechi northbound, ‘ever Koya-bound’)
With Dan Rubin and Matt Mullenweg
Mishima → Hakone Pass on the old Tōkaidō (Mar 22, 20 km), then a short Hakone walk (Mar 23, 9 km)
With John McBride
Kudoyama (5:45 a.m.) → Chōishi-michi → Daimon, Kōyasan on Dec 31; goma-taki at Eikōin, torch-run to a Shinto shrine on New Year’s Eve, Okunoin cemetery walks in snow
With two friends
Tokushima temples 1–5 area (Nov 26) → Minami-chō / temple 23 Yakuōji (Nov 28) → Kōchi coast → Matsuyama (Dec 2, morning chants) → Sanuki-shi, Nyotai-san / temples 87–88 (Dec 4); Shugendō fire ceremony, temple funicular; transit between sections
With John McBride, Kevin Kelly and others
Yuasa (soy-sauce town) 12 km → Shingū; Yunomine Onsen (Tsuboyu) → Hongū Taisha → Kohechi to Totsukawa Onsen (25 km) → Miuraguchi (14) → Ōmata (16) → Kōyasan / Okunoin (17); rest; Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi → Kōyasan day (Apr 21, ‘The artists eat’); earlier a 12 km hike on Tsushima
With John McBride and a group of artists
Gokurakubashi Station → Nyonin-michi (women’s pilgrim path) → Daimon; overnight at a shukubō; planned 22 km Chōishi-michi abandoned for snow
With two unnamed travel companions
Nojiri → Ne-no-ue Pass → Tsumago (Kiso Valley, Nakasendō); Hi.co moment in Nagiso Oct 16 2014; ‘the descent into Nagano’
With Kevin Kelly
Tokyo → Kirishima → Kagoshima → Ibusuki → Yakushima (May 5, yakusugi hikes) → Uto/Kumamoto → Unzen → Nagasaki (May 8) → Karatsu (May 10, Yōyokaku) → Kyoto (May 11–12)
With a few friends (unnamed; Ridgeline 055 implies John McBride)
Kita-Kamakura station → Daibutsu hiking course over the ridge → Great Buddha (climbed inside it); coffee brewed on the mountain
With Chris Palmieri and Amal
Kōyasan ↔ Hongū via the Kohechi (‘southbound from Koyasan’ per the interview — but Roden 018 says the April 2018 walk was Craig’s FIRST north→south Kohechi, so direction or year is garbled)
With John McBride
Night ascent of Mt. Takao (Hachiōji) for hatsumōde / first sunrise
With ‘Takao-San crew 2014’ (unnamed friends)
Iiyama (Nagano) — ‘the thousand tree walk / thousand god walk’; public onsen at Nozawa Onsen
Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi up to Kōyasan (Daimon) → Kōyasan → Nakahechi (Takijiri/Tanabe → Hongū Taisha) → Kumano River by flat-bottomed boat to Shingū (Hayatama Taisha) → Nachi / Nachikatsuura → Ise Grand Shrine (62nd Shikinen Sengū year)
With John and David and Derro
Les Deux Magots → Luxembourg Gardens → Rue de Fleurus (Stein’s apartment) → Montparnasse → Les Invalides → Eiffel Tower (climbed the stairs)
Four nights / five days in a temple lodging on ‘a mountain south of Kyoto’ (almost certainly Kōyasan): morning meditation, late-morning walks through the Okunoin forest cemetery
Pokhara → Annapurna Sanctuary valleys → Machapuchare Base Camp → Annapurna Base Camp (4,130 m) → back to Kathmandu
With a Nepalese guide (‘became like a younger brother to me’)
Fifth station → summit → back down (hitchhiked to the fifth station; mountain officially closed, snow at the top)
With a friend (unnamed)