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The local nighta was awesome today. 20-30cms fell today.

I was really lucky as a kid that my parents were (still are) keen skiers. I started when I was 4 and went every year till I turned 18 and left school. Then worked for a few seasons in the French Alps and one in Whistler before and after uni. Then got a real job, a girlfriend who became the wife, bought a house and kind of resigned myself to being just a week or two a year skier. Then decided to sack that in, quit our jobs and head to the snow again. I'd always wanted to ski Japan, so we applied for JET, requested a Hokkaido placement, got it and have been here for 3 and a half years now. L

Yep, you got it! Santa Present Park in Asahikawa. Over to you, sir!

My previous post was a bit of a clue I'll grab a Google Earth image and upload that in a bit!

No more guesses? Come on everyone, don't give up ho ho hope!

Hope the summit lift is open Tubby! You gonna be up there tomorrow or Sunday?

It may well come to that!

Looks like we're in for some decent snow up here over the weekend. But it's going to be accompanied by strong winds, and probably the resultant lift closures. Sucks for us weekend warriors!

Nope to both of those!

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Tsugaike Kogen

Annupuri?

Teine?

Be careful with that. Would your insurance pay out if you had left the windows and doors open? Especially after broadcasting the fact on the internet? In my experience (admittedly not in Australia), insurance companies will have small print stating that all possible measures must be taken to secure a property, or the insurance will be invalid. Hence policy premiums are cheaper if you have alarms/sophisticated locks etc.

Still broken - which is why I'm skiing with no poles! But it's on the mend, new bone is growing and the fracture is repairing. I've still got the pins in there, but they'll hopefully be coming out over the next few weeks.

I've got a car, so if there are spare seats going you guys are welcome to get a ride!

For sure! Gotta get a return on the investment!

Wow you're really getting around Hokkaido. Great photos! If you're still in that neck of the woods, I recommend fish and chips by the harbour at Utoro.

Would be fun to go in a group. Went last year with a big crew and had a great time!

Me 4!

Thanks for getting the problem sorted so quickly!

Put together some video from the weekend. A powder day at Sapporo Teine on Saturday and then a sunny mostly piste day at Mount Racey in Yubari on Sunday. (Maybe cover your ears for the first 10 seconds or so if you don't like bad language!) http://vimeo.com/84510158

Teine was incredible on Monday.

Yes. After skiing deep pow at Teine today, we went for a great soup curry in Kita 24. Bloody good day.

Nothing to be seen beyond bowl 3 though - not worth looking I reckon! Just arrived back in Hokkaido after a couple of weeks in the UK. Will be up at Teine a fair bit from now on. But mostly on the pistes, they're definitely the best bit.