Metabo Oyaji
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The gift that keeps on giving.
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Why aren't we just training someone else to go after these guys? Maybe we could give someone a bunch of weapons to deal with the problem for us.
The only trick will be finding someone we haven't already given weapons and training to.
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Niseko 2011
I was practicing a butter. Nothing special, just a few spins. Obviously slamming all day with the occasional success to keep me going.
But it got tough.
No specific injury, but those cumulative hits took their toll. I think it destroyed the rest of my trip. I know its something we all go through, but that was definitely the moment i realised the pipe dreams were over. I could take the slams. I could take a broken wrist. But this... it was the feeling that id lost something mental rather than physical that did me in. I was in chains to a new world order. It signaled the end. I was broken.
Only kidding cats. Three months to the new season! lets wiping!
Ha ha. Gingerly, tentatively, building up courage on the kicker at Snova the other day, I was acutely aware of my age. All these young kids on snowboards doing spins off it, and here I was at my age, just straight jumping it on skis. Which was great fun, actually. But seeing all these kids going at it, I felt like, heck, I'm not going to let them put me out to pasture! Keep at it! I'm sure the kids thought, "What the heck is this old geezer doing here? We'll show how it's done!" So good mutual motivation. At least so I imagined. (More likely, they just thought, why is this oyaji wasting everyone's time in the line-up?)
Managed some crude splits, next time might tackle backscratchers. Someday, might I even get stupid enough to try spins?
Not ready to let gravity win yet.
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can anyone else suggest other places that may be more suitable for 2 - 3 days?
Inawashiro area: bunch of small-to-mid-sized places in one area.
Zao: one resort, but plenty big enough for 2-3 days. Plus snow monsters!
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Just had a curry katsu lunch with Lady Peetan at one of our favourite places. Can't every week have a hol-
... Oh yes, next week is tomin no hi
Seems a bit early for 冬眠の日.
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Excellent suggestion, klingon!
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Ended up hitting Snova today, last-minute decision.
Spent most of the time getting comfortable on the kicker, with a sprinkling of guratori on the side.
Feeling wiped out now. Good exercise!
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Good recovery, Tubbs!
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Wheres metabo to fill us in on the fukushima options? And Zao to fill us in on the zao options
I'm always happy to extoll the virtues of Fukushima options (or even Zao, for that matter), but Sez asked about Yuzawa.
Which is also good -- and closer to Mt. Granview, of course.
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Yukie got married!
* not to me
Condolences, gg.
I'm sure she doesn't know what she's missing.
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I'm truly devastated......I can't believe a NO vote was returned. It feels line someone has kicked me in the balls.
Condolences, Tubb.
I see Dundee had a higher proportion of Yes votes than anywhere else.
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That's not bad for a notoriously slippery village and an old unco gal
Heh heh, she said 'unco'...
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Time for the annual, pre-season climate change dust-up, I see.
Winter can't be far now.
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Did you chew it Metabo Oyaji?
I chewed the body meat. The heart was way too small to chew, being only about the size of one of those little Frisk breath mints. (Picture a throbbing, beating breath mint.)
And...... did it taste like chicken?No, tasted like...snake.
Actually, not really much flavor. Though texture was maybe somewhere between chicken and shrimp.
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The idea is about as appealing as something that's not in the least bit appealing.
Actually, less so.
I am NOT clicking on that button.
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Trimming the beard made a big difference.
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Those MacEarth guys must be either geniuses or masochists, running around buying all the troubled ski areas they can find.
I guess time will tell which one it is.
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Actually, it was at a barbecue party. Some workers had caught a mamushi earlier, which they decided to toss on the grill. They killed and sliced it up quickly, and offered me the still-beating heart to eat, probably because I was standing nearby and looked gullible. Still, not one to pass up such an opportunity, I accepted. Could feel it still beating on my tongue and down my throat. The rest of the snake was grilled up and everyone got a few bites. Not bad, actually.
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Never been bitten by one, though have bitten one.
Yes do tell, what you mean.
Alcohol may have been involved.
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Never been bitten by one, though have bitten one.
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There are also mamushi, which are poisonous, though not usually fatal.
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I'm hoping to score a More Epic-er Pass.
(Granview, Hanaoka, Runcorn and Llandudno)
Though I realize there will be hot competition for those.
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Thanks! Did you tilt the angle of that photo a little bit? Looks a bit steeper than it is in reality!
Good eye. The original image from which that was cropped was a bit tilted.
Anyway, for my next one, which ski jo is this:
Katsurazawa Kokusetsu?
Eruption in Nagano/Gifu!
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