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so long as you dont have kids youre still ahead of the game. And marriage is always a canny investment (without kids).

Gala Yuzawa: 5 Ishiuchi Maruyama: 5 Iwappara: 3 Joetsu Kokusai: 1 (-) Kagura: 17 (+) Maiko Snow Resort: 9 Mt Granview: 6 Muikamachi Hakkaisan: 7 Naeba: 12 Yuzawa Kogen: 5

DAMMNNNN YOUUUUU NEEEEECCCCKKKKK!!!!! :grandpa:

obviously not the most sound financial decision,. But youre not getting younger and those snow miles need to be enjoyed while youve still got the energy for it. For me, im waiting until the knees go, then ill start thinking about my future. And by this i mean paying some cash to the national health so i get some kind of pension assuming they still exist. And if they dont. Theres always monasticism and god. I could do that i think. Or just drop a gram of bath salts run around brighton town center with my underpants on my head, a pencil up my nose, screaming WIBBLE!!! and get sectioned. Plenty o

oooh! new day! Hakuba 47 21 Cortina 2 (-) Goryu 30 (+)

Hakuba 47 21 Cortina 5 (-) Goryu 26 (+)

Lesseee... On JET (take home around 265,000p/m). Easy save 100,000 possibly more if you were actually 'saving'. Of course i spent it all on getting shitfaced in osaka and that dump of a hole nagoya. <fell in love with snowboarding had about a million yen saved at the end of third year despite having a very large third year on jet and ended blowing a significant heap on moving to nagano> Then dispatch in suzaka: subsidised housing, salary of 240,000 take home around 200,000 - Saved close to 40,000p.m until snowboard season then byeybyes a lot of it. <had a decent sum sa

haha, dont have to tell me.

Gimme any board between 156cm and 160 and ill have a blast. I cant freaking wait to get back out there again. I guarantee if its still open and im in the vicinity, ill find a way to drag my ass to tigerland or whatever its called in bucheon to ride that shitty little tiny indoor run they have all september and october before spending november and december riding manmade snow with 200,000 other people and then january and feb fighting 500,000 seoulites for lifts and very very little freshies. Ill bitch and moan, but while im riding ill be stoked out. Because i love snowboarding. I love pow of c

Let me make a case for not pow: Pow is awesome in Nozawa in the following places: tanuki; ushikubi; schneider, basically all the parts you can think of; off piste, steeps, trees. Pow is less than awesome anywhere that involves a decline of about 10 degrees (which a lot of the groomers are). Ice is awesome: Skyline. Anywhere without moguls. A few of the off piste lines involving creek beds found scattered all about the place. Finally its also pretty damn fun in all those bits that are shit in the pow because now you can spend those shallow inclines flying up and down the walls or keep

hey, powder fascists, its not always about the pow pow. Sometimes its about just how fun it is to get a solid fun run out. Ive always loved that little goryu/47, i can just enjoy it for itself. I dont have to love it for its powder, thats just a bonus to the place. And were i to have really got to ride it beyond my third season and actually had a decent chance to explore it, im sure theres a fair few spots you can sneak off to. That being said, it killed a couple of people last year so, you know... probably not the safest place to exit the resort boundaries. Ive sent loads of people off to

Gala Yuzawa: 5 Ishiuchi Maruyama: 5 (-) Iwappara: 4 Joetsu Kokusai: 3 Kagura: 16 (+) Maiko Snow Resort: 8 Mt Granview: 6 Muikamachi Hakkaisan: 7 Naeba: 11 Yuzawa Kogen: 5

Hakuba 47 22 Cortina 4 (-) Goryu 26 (+)

nah, i mean in this thread oooh, might as well cast my vote while im here: Hakuba 47 21 Cortina 6 (-) Goryu 24 (+)

Definitely, it's one of the considerations that all go into the pot. It would be also Interesting if you could even get a consensus on what the best powder board does. I'm not just being a total cynic here, I just think the phrase the best board should always come with an asterisk and a pharmaceutical list of qualifiers Again the bsod is interesting since you mention it if only because per 2009 if you wanted a bc stick from capita you probably sized that one up a few cms. Now if anything it's got even more float but it's much less likely to be your bc stick of choice. I'm also using that

Hakuba 47: 21 (+) Cortina: 8 (-) Goryu: 21 I cant, with any good conscience vote against the resort where i learned to carve, jump and spin on. Plus i adore r1 just for its rippy twisty turny fun. I still think goryu is better fun mind you on a drop but yeah, they shoudl have been on the same ticket anyway. No idea why they were separated.

Gala Yuzawa: 5 Ishiuchi Maruyama: 5 Iwappara: 5 Joetsu Kokusai: 4 (-) Kagura: 13 (+) Maiko Snow Resort: 7 Mt Granview: 6 Muikamachi Hakkaisan: 7 Naeba: 8 (+) NASPA Ski Garden: 5 Yuzawa Kogen: 5 Tactical byebe kandatsu just because this list needs t be MUCH smaller.

ah, you kinda misunderstood me. The truth is that what gozaimaas wants in his board is actually what turned me off my slasher. If you get the conditions wrong (which is pretty easty in nagano/niigata especially if you dont live near the resort), then pulling out your epic pow stick is going to make you miserable. Conversely if you pull out your run out stick on a deep day and you have your quiver pow stick suitting at home that also bums your day out. So what i need in a powder stick isnt the best float, but the best float without too much of a sacrifice to an everyday ride. A long board or a

Depends what you want it for. Not all resorts are the same, and we all don't ride the same terrain or the same nber of days anyway. We also don't all love taper nor do we all love specialist powder sticks. I like hybrids to be honest since I like venturing into slack but also don't want a board I pull out three days a year and realise only upon travelling the 250km up to the resort that I should have brought my do it all board anyway because I misread the weather or it just didn't drop like I hoped it would. Having a full on quiver board is going to be unbeatable on those days, but I just

if you are suggesting what i think youre suggesting: god, i wish... heres the sunny land of smiles!

Help me, I'm in hell. Only it's raining. Like real rain, not fiery rain which makes me suspicious that I'm actually back on earth after all. But that's exactly the kind of tricks that are played upon the lost souls of hell. One more month then It's off to koh samui for a month of tourismtefling and finding an appropriate job in my beloved kankoku... Which ill obviously come to hate sometime around the end of the season, but in grand news, new gears coming in soon and I held off burning my hook up, so still have 750 bucks of stuffs coming my way as long as true snow survive their incredibl

Hakuba 47: 17 Hakuba Cortina: 11 (-) Hakuba Goryu: 20 (+)

Hakuba 47: 17 Hakuba Cortina: 10 Hakuba Goryu: 19 (+) Happo-one: 2 (-)

that was some of the best 12 minutes ive spent this year.

haha! heres two of my big days out at muju: The lift Phalanx in turtle formation: The start of the day: The end of the day: