Kara Scherer’s Fuji Photos

Below are images taken by Kara Scherer, participant in the Fuji Summer 2014 overseas program.

LC students throw their wishes into the flames so the smoke will transport them to the heavens.

The opening ritual for the climbing season of Mt. Fuji

Josh learning how to play traditional Shugendo instruments

Buddhist and Shinto priests working together

Our first sign of Wifi!

Exploring Sensoji Temple in Tokyo

Lewis and Clark students taking the Tokyo metro

Local residents carrying their mikoshi into the sea at a festival in Enoshima

Local residents carrying their mikoshi into the sea at a festival in Enoshima

At a festival honoring the local deity

Studying by the coast

Looking at prayers at a shrine

The ropeway from Owakudani to Lake Ashi

Old Tokaido path

Reconstruction of Hakone checkpoint on the old Tokaido road

The making of the black sulfurous eggs, Hakone volcano

Black eggs boiled in sulfurous hot spring water

Daphne and the founder of the Fujiya Hotel

Relaxing at the farmhouse near Lake Sai

Kyle and Keith being interviewed at a Fujisan Club clean-up event

Helping the Fujisan Club with a site clean-up

Using our Fulcrum maps

Enjoying life in Japan

Field research in the Nashigahara grasslands

Watanabe Sensei catching butterflies in the Nashigahara grasslands

Max exploring a lava tube

Exploring a lava tube

Exploring a lava tube

Hiking Mt. Fuji

Learning about silk production

Kyle learning how to weave silk

Botany group measuring a sample quadrat on the lava flows north of Mt. Fuji

Kyle on her root throne

Botany group measuring tree diameters

Geology group cleaning auger

Watanabe Sensei and Jacob

Peter!

Forest on Aokigahara lava flow north of Mt. Fuji

Common lands association council room

Fujiomuro Sengen shrine museum

Fujiomuro Sengen shrine

Group picture in front of a slush flow deposit

Julie testing rock porosity

Fujikyu Highland

Sake brewery tour

Sake brewery tour

Our boys in pink

Ojinka festival

Ojinka festival

Carrying a mikoshi at the Ojinka festival, Fujinomiya

Sunrise on Mt. Fuji

Sunrise on Mt. Fuji

Sunrise on Mt. Fuji

Daphne at a shrine in Kyoto

Fushimi-Inari, the shrine of a thousand toriis

Fushimi-Inari, the shrine of a thousand toriis

Arashiyama bamboo forest

Learning about the plantation forest

Nambu Himatsuri Festival honoring the dead

Nambu Himatsuri Festival honoring the dead

Nambu Himatsuri Festival honoring the dead

Nambu Himatsuri Festival honoring the dead

Nambu Himatsuri Festival honoring the dead

Hito Ana, a pilgrimage site for Fujiko members next to a famous lava cave

A check dam for erosion control on Mt. Fuji

Learning about erosion control methods on Mt. Fuji

Exploring Marutomi toilet paper factory

Exploring Marutomi toilet paper factory

Marutomi toilet paper factory

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