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Best season ever there are so many more to come. It is a never ending season though it is still snowing. The winds last night though were really bad as the warm air shifted and the cold air came in. Happo web cam http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/nagano/happone-2.html Naeba http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/niigata/naeba-1.html

I was skiing with my wife a 2 guests/friends that were about to leave. Man did they get lucky and the season ended for them on a bang. I saw you with your pole I think you were skiing with a girl but that is hard to tell as it was a face mask kind of day. Are we allowed to use the bottomless term? I mean after that lighting really set up the kurobishi bowl between 2 and 3pm and there were about 15 of us lapping it up in the storm. LOL

A few years ago I put together a March Madness video. Basically Powder in March and lots of it. This season though has blown my mind with so much snow in March and now into April. Another Storm today which has brought around 20cms of snow so far again. Im calling this season the never ending one. I expected my March school break to be a few powder days with a few peak bagging days. Well I bagged no peaks and skied only powder either at Happo or Above Tsugaike. 3 vids to come as they get uploaded to SJTV. Vids are powder bigones and a few crazy pillow areas that were all time the best ive ever

My friend lee lyon is camping in a trailer at Tompsons pass. He lives in hakuba in the winter here in Japan. If you stumble upon him Zach or Miles then say hello.

that happo day was awesome. the best part was after the lighting shut things down it got refreshed and deeper. Still the next day was the best of the season by far for me. PS black mountain I saw you on the hill!

Snowing again setting up for a super saturday or sunday on the wild things!

Snowing again right now and pretty hard. Yesterday was all time off the sides of happo for me at least. knee deep blower.

One of the best days of the season by far. Anyone else get out there today?

Sunny day in Hakuba and im stuck doing very little waiting for spring break to come along

Does this work? http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/videos/view-54-swedes-taking-over-hakuba/

The 2 days Saturday and Sunday had different problems which you have identified. Saturday saw a mix of new snow on a thin ice layer in the upper regions. That ice layer changed to a bonded layer but a very small section to the isothermic layer that was very unstable. On Saturday I had my best turns on low angle widely spaced trees or lift lines. Sunday say the snow change due to 2 maybe 3 factors. The temps dropped and the snow pack started to change buried surface hoar into facets. The there was either a wind layer or an evaporation layer that had a 10 to 40cms thick slab. On top of that w

my computer ninja skills are in serious trouble the older I get. We didnt have wet releases we had burried surface hoar on ice, with a tiny bit of slab and 10cm of more hoar. Dangerous. I think someone is missing in the Cortina area as well.

A very bad accident but not the end of the sport. The fence was only that close because it was the last jump before the finish.

I Remembered the sun screen this weekend but the snow just wasnt there. We just had too much snow on top of an ice layer that was was too dangerous. We ran out to our line set off some avies on ski cuts and one remote triggered slide and back tracked out. It sucks to not ski but it is good to be carefull out there.

A sad day for Canada!

Im peeling really badly today!

My skin is not liking me today lots of peeling!

regular crampons and an axe for sure for hiking on the snow

It is a very easy out really but a car or taxi is needed to get you back to the resort.

That was funny thanks for the laugh. To each his own I guess. Much of the reason I choose Hakuba was to enjoy the mountains and the BC or easy access stuff. With 3 kids I can say that I do tend to take less risks. Also with money not a problem anymore invested in pretty much all the latest and greatest gear the airbag system. Now that isnt going to make it much safer but I think I owe it to my family to at least try to take less risks.

Yesterday was hell but today I feel much better. I was stupid really stupid. I climb many mountains every year and that I forgot or refused to ask a friend for sun screen once I knew I was being burned is beyond stupid. Anyways looks like this Sunday might be another good day to get some footage. Mid to high alpine season has begun. Cold weather for honshu returns in 2 days freeze levels around 800 meters plus or minus a few hundred meters. Watch out for glide cracks!

Did 3 lines out the back of Happo on Sunday. the last line didnt record so oh well. Forgot to put on sun screen and im paying for it big time. Still great snow for 90% of the runs. Almost sluffed myself on the second line when I didnt feel the snow was good enough to straight line out of the bottom chute. Just pulled over in time. I included pics of the lines just so that you could get an idea.

For the cost the go pro is way better.

PS the long range forecast from the 8th is looking good for us Honshu people!