Someday, I went for solo touring to OKUTAMA. It was a late spring day and the landscape of a yellow green on a valley and mountains was impressive.

秋川と奥多摩の山々
晩春の芽吹きの萌黄色が印象的です

The river in the picture is AKIGAWA River and the mountains in OKUTAMA can be seen beyond the valley. The valley was beautiful and at the same time the landscape that the mountains overlap each other were impressive. I rode on the route 411 for OKUTAMA and I could see OGOCHI Dam in my left hand side.

小河内ダムの洪水吐
小河内ダムを国道411号線から

From the route 411, the emergency channel of OGOCHI Dam was seen nearly. It was so large that the photo above does not express the scale of the dam. Once I rode beyond OGOCHI Dam, I reached the lake side of OKUTAMA Lake. I found the wild cherries blossom.

名残のヤマザクラ
晩春、奥多摩名残のヤマザクラ

After I had been satisfied with the yellow green landscape and the wild cherries blossom, I returned home.