Once upon a time, long, long ago, the mountain bikers of Susono would gather for a weekly ride, not very far from here.
They would sweat, and laugh, and pedal through the pain, to reach the top of the mountain. If they were lucky, they would see deer. They would see life come into being as the "slime" became tadpoles, which then blossomed into frogs.
But more than a year ago, this paradise ceased to be. Little by little, the mountain bikers were edged out of their territory, forced to disperse, crowded back into the city.
This is their trail today:
The paradise is becoming part of the Dai-Ni Tomei (Tomei Number Two), which is cutting a swathe through Shizuoka Prefecture.
3 comments:
Oh, my. Such is the price of progress, I suppose.
Gee, now it looks like it does here... well we don't actually have mountains or hills but construction we have.
Ouch - that really is too bad. I hope they build some animal safe passages under the highway for the fauna in the area.
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