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A restricted crag in the Chichibu area.
Arakure
- Grade context: US
Summary
Description
Most of the routes are hard, no easy route (just few easy route for warm up) available.
Access issues
This crag is not officially open. It is a limited admission area because there is some reason. It’s like commune. Now, only a limited number of climbers, about 20, have access to the area and the members have also strengthened their ties with local residents by continuing to help with the annual festival at a local shrine. It’s one of the great case to keep on good relationships with local residents and climbers I’ve seen. If a non-member climber want to access there, they need to be accompanied by one of the members.
Ethic inherited from Japan
There`s not a lot of information about climbing in Japan in English. Much of the information is only available in Japanese - or of course here on theCrag!
The Japan Free Climbing Association (http://freeclimb.jp/seibi/seibi.htm) is a good point of contact and there is a set of 5 guidebooks (all in Japanese) and an alpine guide book in English available covering all of Japan and its thousands of sport and trad routes and boulders.
http://www.yamakei.co.jp/products/2811180810.html
https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Alpine-Climbs-Japan-Climb-ebook/dp/B01ARU5KR0
History
“Arakure” has been climbed for a long time, the history started 30 years (1990's) ago.
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