Kurzbericht vom 26.4. - von CP1 zu CP2

Wie geplant starteten wir (Karina, MaxTaro + Tom) gestern Morgen um 7:00 und erreichten kurz vor 9:00 Tonosawa (1. Station nach Hakone Yumoto mit der lokalen Hakone „Bergtour-Bahn“). Der „Einstieg“ von der Route No. 1 in den Wandertrail war auch diesmal wieder – dank des ausgezeichneten Karten- und Bildermaterials von Oxfam – problemlos und vom starken Regen des Vortages war auf dem ‚Trail‘ kaum noch etwas zu spueren. Schon nach 2 Stunden erreichten wir Mt. Sengen, wo wir uns eine halbe Stunde Pause goennten. Es passierten uns mehrere Wandergruppen, von denen ich die ansprach, bei denen auch „gaijins“ mitwanderten (bzw. liefen, s.u.).

Schon bei der 1. Gruppe wurde ich fuendig: Ja, man trainiere fuer Oxfam. Zielzeit: 21 Stunden. Dann kam die 2. Gruppe (3 Auslaender, 1 Japaner) den Berg heraufgelaufen - ganz offensichtlich beim trailwalkertraining. Zielzeit: 15 Stunden!!!!!!! (im letzten Jahr hat diese Gruppe anscheinend noch 17 Stunden benoetigt .... ) - nur als info, ohne weitere Kommentare ..... – oder sollten wir unsere Zielzeit doch noch einmal ueberdenken????????

Gegen 12:00 kamen wir 3 dann auch schon im Ashinoyu Flower Centre (CP2) an, wo Naoko mit dem Auto auf uns wartete ...

FAZIT: Die Strecke vom CP1 bis zum CP2 (9km) sollte das Team Firmenlauefer in ca. 2 Stunden bewaeltigen ...

tom

Trailwalker Training 2 (April 26th, 2009)

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Correns donates 100'000 Yen

Correns Corporation in Japan donated the amount of 100'000 Yen to Oxfam to support the Firmenläufer team.

Thank you very much!

Trainings Hike, April 19th, 2009

On a very beautiful day we went for our first training hike. We, the firmenlaeufer team with Tom Nolting, Hans-Peter Musahl, Heiner Pape and myself. We got strong support by the "habituée" Trailwalker Thomas Balk.

Trailwalker Training (April 19th, 2009)

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Taking the train 5:15am on a Sunday morning is hard - especially since all the Starbucks on our way were still closed! Around 7:15am we arrived in Sengoku in the Hakone area - pretty much in the middle between checkpoint 4 and 5 of the trail. Our plan was to hike until checkpoint 7 - Suruga-oyama which means about 36km and 1200m in altitude. This hike brought us soon onto a beautiful mountain ridge from which one could see mount Fujii very easily. It then went steep downhill to a very beautiful place with the Daiyuzan Saiji-ji temple. From there we had to take a forestry road bringing us to a small village called Yagurasawa. After Yagurasawa we came to places with fascinating names such as the "21st century forest" or the "central square" which is everything but "central". Very beautiful forest trails led us finally to Suruga-oyama.

After some negotiation with a young station manager we could finally enter the super special express back to Tokyo to arrive there around 6pm happy, but tired.

Oxfam Fundraising Party, April 17th, 2009

On the 17th in the evening we had our fundraising party and also had the chance to celebrate Hans-Peter's birthday. The party was perfectly hosted by Christine and Hans-Peter. Many contributed with salads and sweets and other very delicious treats. Thomas W. was the barbecue master, Tom participated with a series of Codeo beer kegs and I got an authentic Swiss Raclette oven and cheese directly imported from Switzerland. The party was a big success - and with this goes a big thank you to all the guests: in the course of the evening we raised 150'000 yen for Oxfam! Great!

Oxfam Party (April 17th, 2009)

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