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Thanks Max! It was so nice to wake up and check out the cams and see it all white! Only 9 weeks today and we are there!

The new building at the bottom looks fab too!

One of Barry Humphries alter egos. Do you know Dame Edna?

JMA showing snow Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday for Sapporo. Snow Forecast is showing snow from Mon - Thur for Niseko and Mountain Watch is showing 30 +cms in the next 7 days. We can only wait and see now!!

Sir Les is wrong on so many levels..........

A Country Practise??? Does anyone in the UK get Bondi Rescue yet? It's a show about the Bondi beach surf rescue crew. Bondi, for those that don't know, is a busy Sydney city beach. It's astounding how many rescues they do. Sometimes 30 a day. Mostly asians and middle eastern people also a lot of backpackers. Some of them would have surely died without help. There's lots of buffed boys and girls running around in swimwear, lots of city freaks and the odd shark. I thought it might be a ratings winner in the UK. It seems like a Baywatch rip off. Nah....... it is a reality show.

Do they still have blue light discos? I remember going to a few back in the 80's. ha ha i have no idea. I do not think they still have them. I never went to one. Don't laugh but yes they do and they seem to be making a comeback!! My son went to one the other week......I had a good laugh!! Only seems like yesterday I was going..........

That's fine by me I arrive on the 15th!!!! Hehehehe

Kabuki 1 is also great for tepanyaki and okonomiyaki. Although it is difficult to get into as you can't reserve unless you have a table of 8 + people. We went really early and were happy we did! I am sure there is another thread where there was talk of great eateries in Kutchan. We had some great food there as well but couldn't tell you where or what they were called. We would just stroll around and go in if there was room. If you want pizza or even cheese fondue??? (so not Japanese) try Yummy's. Shabu Shabu at Sou is also excellent. So that is my 3 "Terry Tourist" Restos in Niseko. Alth

Watched The Art of Flight the other night and it was awesome!!!

Cool Korbzy. We were insured with 1Cover which as I said before, confirmed in writing that they would cover us off piste but in resort boundaries. This won't help you though as you are going backcountry. I have had a look through past postings and people participating in backcountry either suggest IHI Bupa Global Travel or World Nomads, Level 4 coverage which includes backcountry. These companies are more expensive but will cover you if you need a helicopter to fish out of goodness knows where!!!

So im going to Japan for 6 weeks and ill be doing some off-piste riding and I want to be covered of course for this, would I be looking at an extras package that includes off-piste or are there some companies people recommend that normally have it in their general policy. I tired to have a look around the forum for some tips or recommendations but most of them are outdated. sorry for hijacking the OP's thread! Where are you based Kobzy? When you are looking for a policy just make sure you have unlimited medical and ask the question about being covered for off piste within resort bounda

Woooohooooo

And that's what they compare us to!

The toilets??? Are you kidding me!!

Great photos!!

Count me in!!

You are a fountain of info MB. Thanks for that!

Originally Posted By: Mamabear The original indoor snow dome thingo that was proposed for Perth pre-GFC is still being looked at with a dry slope surface.... so you never know... oooooo I had forgotten about that! Wonder what's happening there??

Love it!!

Ahhhh MB you beat me to the photo!

The soft toy Sunny Sandgropper that Channel 7 used to distribute was much more attractive! It was a fund raiser for Telethon if I remember correctly!

I have to say though, once we had been to Japan we were less inclined to ski in Australia. Especially since us sand groppers are rather far away!

And the Jimmy Choos! Much prefer the snow!