仲間といざ活動開始 |
立松和平氏の息子さんとお孫さん |
標高900m地点が今回の植樹場所 |
植樹場所から更に180段登って頂上 |
足尾ダムを背にしたステージで ミニコンサートが。 |
天皇皇后の記念植樹シロヤシオツツジ と立松和平氏の顕彰碑 |
1000mばかりの高さの山の頂上から1/5くらい下の高さが今回の植樹場所。登りは結構きつい階段で1時間半ほどかかり、仲間も息を切らすほどであったが、折り返しは笑う膝をかばいつつも半時間で下山。折角という思いで、私は植樹の後、更に頂上まで登り、視界を堪能。皇海山が角度の関係で見れなかったのは残念。階段がいくつあるか興味を持って数えながら下山。1048段ありました。1000mで1048段。
9時半にスタートして下山したのが丁度12時。参加者それぞれが持参したお弁当を広げ、主催者が用意したトン汁をご馳走になりながら、エンターテイメントとしてのミニコンサートを楽しみました。宇都宮在住のせきぐちゆきさんという歌手の元気あふれる素敵な歌にみんな疲れを癒されなごやかな雰囲気に。石巻から運び込まれたホタテ、イカ、わかめ、かまぼこなどがチャリティー販売されて主催者側の盛りだくさんの企画とボランティアスタッフに改めて感謝。汗をかき、登って植えて来たという達成感を味わった経験となりました。
Today I had a wonderful and precious experience in Ashio where a big project entitled "Let's plant baby trees up to one million in the future!" was set up for this weekend. I joined this event with my friends from Nikko Seifu Juku for the first time. The number of participants have been increasing year by year. It might be over 2000 this year. We were given 3 baby trees each and we were in a long line of participants climbing hard steps up to the place where we were supposed to plant trees. The place is located 900m high above sea level. The mountain itself is about 1000m high above sea level. The uphill slope was pretty hard and it took about 1 and a half hours, but the downhill took only half an hour. I found myself counting the number of the steps from the top down to the bottom and I made it. There are 1048 steps. I'm pretty sure nobody has done before what I did something ridiculous like that, which made me feel honored in secret. Upon coming back to the start point, we were all proud of our accomplishment and felt happy. Then we sat down among other people in an open space for our box lunch and enjoyed a petit concert by Yuki Sekiguchi, a lady singer from Utsunomiya, organized by the promoter.
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