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Yoshigadaira – Yugama crater – Shirane-san

Gunma百名山 草津白根山

湯釜

Cover photo: Yoshigadaira – Yugama crater – Shirane-san

Milky water at the bottom of the crater

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Distance
6.9km
Ascent
413m
194 m of descent
Walking time
2 h 16
4 h 45 with breaks
High point
2,160m
low point 1,813 m
Season
Winter
February 2011

Turquoise between white walls

Above Yoshigadaira, the stage reaches the Shirane area and the rim of Yugama. The lake fills the bottom of a snowy crater. Its pale turquoise water contrasts with the white walls and bands of ocher rock.

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Photos 8

Panorama: Yugama and its ocher walls under the snow
Yugama (湯釜) and its ocher walls, from the southeastern rim of the crater, at about 2,070 m.

Hut surrounded by snowy larches at dawn
The Yoshigadaira hut (芳ヶ平ヒュッテ) in the early morning, at about 1,830 m, among the bare larches.

Orange sunrise over distant ridges and a snowy plateau
Sunrise over the snowy plateau of Yoshigadaira, the distant ridges backlit.

Wind-carved ripples in the snow, low-angle light
Wind-rippled snow in the low morning light, on the Yoshigadaira plateau.

Snow cornice with spindrift torn off by the wind under a deep blue sky
The wind lifts the snow off the top of a cornice, near Yumi-ike, at about 2,030 m.

Turquoise lake at the bottom of a snowy crater, seen from afar
First view of Yugama (湯釜), the turquoise lake in the hollow of the crater, from the viewpoint, 2,138 m.

Crater wall with ocher and gray rock under the snow
Crater wall near Karagama (涸釜), next to Yugama, at about 2,080 m: ocher and gray rock under the snow.

Rock crowned with pines on a snowy slope
A rocky spur topped with pines, on the way down, at about 2,030 m.