A Year In Japan, Celebrated With Best Friends From the Summit of Mt. Fuji
It didn’t matter what we did to cap off our first year — we were together. With friends we can make it through anything.
Hiking Mt. Fuji is one of those ideas you knock around with friends for years, perhaps even a lifetime. To make the memory, action is required.
This prevents many of us from enacting the dreams our hearts long to live; they seem improbable until we take that first step and start climbing.
An extraordinary life isn’t so difficult to attain, it just takes intention.
I’m lucky to have Pat, such a man of intention as a brother by my side in Japan. Patrick Macmahon is a dude who’s constantly making moves and taking charge.
When I told him we gotta hike Fuji-san early in the summer, his response was, as usual: We do, don’t we. He was already picking up the phone to gather intel on how it could be done.
Our timing was auspicious, as we discovered that the climbing season takes place between July 10th and September 10th. That was that. Our motley crew settled to scale the shy mountain at the end of August.
