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    Are you getting breakfasts included in your accomodation Dyna? If you are, the western breakfast option doesn't open until 8am, but the buffet opens at 7 am. The buffet gets very busy by 7.30, it is best to get in before this time, or after 8 if you are sleeping in. The western breakfast option is a set menu with soup, eggs, bacon, sausage, salad, bread and jam, yogurt and fruit, served as 4 seperate courses, full silver service. It is quite funny to see the staff wearing suits and the concierge wearing a tux, when everyone eating in there is wearing snow pants, slippers or boot liners and
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    Yes, for a cheap meal you can't beat the Seicomart
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    Yes they do have english menus, but some places don't have many, so you may have to share with other tables. RE: Pirateman, yes it is kind of hard to find. If you are standing looking at the little strip of restaurants, there is a short road to the left of the strip. It leads to a T intersection, turn right when you hit that. You will then find a sharp left hand corner, and a smaller road off to the left. The first building down the smaller road is Pirateman. It is only about 200m walk from the strip of restaurants, even though my directions make it seem much further.
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    There is a small strip of places, maybe 5? different places, just north of the resort that are significantly cheaper than eating in the resort. If you are going with a group, make sure to book for these places as they are all very small. Behind this small strip there is a place called pirateman, good gyoza there Inside the resort we found that there is a place called Kakashi at the bottom of the highland lodge, it is advertised as a tavern, a fair bit cheaper than the main resort restaurants, athough you may have to wait for a table to become available, I don't think they take reservati
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    Seemore, in the international departures area there is a place with a green circle and a cat as the logo that stores luggage, not 100% on the pricing - I saw a sign saying 800 yen per bag for the day, but did not see an overnight price. There was also one of these places in the arrivals area of the domestic airport.
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    Seemore, the restaurants outside of the north wing hotel near the main road are all pretty good, we didn't spend more than 5000 yen for 2 of us at all during our trip, including 2-3 drinks each at the restaurants. Pirateman is pretty good too, its around behind the little strip of restaurants, but my pick would be the Izakaya closest to the resort in the little strip of restaurants, I just can't remember the name of it, but I remember that next door to it was an upstairs place with fairy lights up the stairs.
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    Snow today was excellent Seemore, thanks
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    There are a few cracks showing on Shiribetsu at the moment, as well as under some of the lifts. They have been covered by fresh snow, so will be difficult to spot.
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    Will try to have a look for you, will be heading through on Chitose on the 26th of Jan, will post up what i find.
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    I got the fox at the souvenir shop at the New Furano Prince Hotel, was fairly cheap, they also had bigger ones.
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    Hi Seemore, yes I have some more pics, but will probably upload them when I get home. At the moment I am resizing the pics one at a time before I upload them, I seem to remember Snowjunky mentioned a program he was using to resize a bunch of photos at once, will try to find that when I get home. Regarding the steepness of Furano, Furano zone i think is steeper than Kitanomine. I think the overall gradient of the Furano zone is probably steeper than Mt Isola at Rusutsu, however I think that some of the ungroomed black / double black runs at Rusutsu are steeper. I will post more on my
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    A tale of 4 baby cheeses - Pt 1 I heard a small voice calling to me from the convini at Furano, it sounded like it was coming from a 4 pack of baby cheese. The cheese asked me for a ride to the ski field. I asked the cheese, "are you narly enough?" the cheese responded, we are knarlier than you!". How could i refuse a 4 pack of knarly cheese? I took 2 of the cheeses to Furano zone with me. One of the cheeses kept talking up foil as the replacement for gore-tex, far superior he reckoned. The other cheese said, "I am too narly for technical outerwear, I will hike naked in the snow.
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    No Problem Snowjunky, Rusustsu stuff still to come, resting the legs for tomorrow, hopefully eating powder for breakfast tomorrow morning
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    Some pics:
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    We arrived at New Chitose airport on the 14th, got on the bus to Furano. While we were on the bus, the weather started closing in, and it started to snow. The closer we got to Furano, the heavier the snow was falling. We got ourselves settled in at our accommodation, had some miso ramen for dinner, and fell asleep, exhausted after 18 hrs of travel. We woke up to the sight of fresh snow blanketing everything, and the sound of trucks, all loaded with snow, about 1 truck every 2 minutes. A quick walk to the 7-11 for some supplies, then into our boots and onto the shuttle to the Furano zon
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    I guess the main thing is that you have found a setting that works, so you can at least get some footage in the meantime, but definitely send it back before the warranty runs out if you can't get everything to work correctly.
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    Yeah i saw that earlier today, pretty funny!
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    You will notice that the post by Thursday was actually posted last year, 2011, January, so its just that the topic hasn't been active for a while
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    New Chitose, then bus to Furano. After that, heading to Rusutsu.
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    Would love to find some Aki-aji, but it might be hard to come by. Thanks for the recommendations Man
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    I will have to check. Looking forward to arriving on Saturday, plenty of different beers to choose from. Which one first?
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    I have been trying to find proper Japanese beer in Aus for a while, the Sapporo classic we get here is brewed under license in Canada, the Asahi is brewed in Tailand, are there any beers imported into Australia that actually come from Japan?
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    Love the guitars Chriselle, how long does it take to make one?
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    Good to see the SJ sticker on the phone box! Whoever put it up there, good job
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