Memphis Hawk
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Yeah, the Ropeway was closed today, but due to 101kmh sustained winds! Chair lift was open, and you can still hit good runs from there, so all is well.
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Just checked hakkodas website. Check the last slot!
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Appi closed by the end of march as well as many other northern iwate and Aomori resorts, stating that the continuing strong aftershocks presented to great of a hazard to lift operation.
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Will keep an eye out. I'll be there today- Sunday. Say hi if you see the 190cm Sakura-Jin walking around.
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No, I'm very familiar with where you are talking about though I took off left of the direct course from the top and was working my way right the entire time before I hit the ravine. I've been all over this mountain but every time there's something new waiting to bite your ass.
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Not gonna be the epic pow you're expecting in April to be honest. To the OP, how would diodes carbon backs be worse than anything else in the BC. It's stronger than any plastic back.
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I just got back from almost dying a slow freezing death at Hakkoda today. I did a nice little slack country run on my first trip down.. one I had never done before. Of course I was going to do it again the second time round. Well I did, and I missed a CRUCIAL turn somewhere without noticing. It was 2:00PM. I have no idea how but I wound up in the ravine just like you. I knew that was not a safe way to keep going so I decided the only sensible choice was to follow my own track back UPHILL. I called my wife to let her know I had messed up and would be late. I wasn't really sure where I was, but I felt like she needed the false confidence, and I had to buy some time. After an hour of inching my way uphill through 70cm on top of the previous days 60cm of snow, I decided it was whistle time. I blew and blew and blew, but little did I know I was WAY off course. Then I pulled out my phone to call Hakkoda and tell them I was lost. I hit send and the phone dies before even placing the call. All I knew was that I Was west of the marked course, heading east meant all uphill but I felt there wasn't any other option. after 3.5 hours and darkness settling in I REALLY didn't know if I had gone the right way and I was ill-prepared to make a snow cave or the likes to spend the night. All of a sudden the Hotel came into view as I trudged along, and I never felt such a sense. I almost cried to be honest. I got in the car and left immediately. Be careful out there! Stick to trails you know, and get a guide to familiarize yourself with new terrain if you feel you absolutely must go there on your own!
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Just booked 3 days at Zao Onsen. I chose Levert Zao as my Hotel. Hope it doesn't suck! I'll be there President's Day weekend!
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It looks like it might be nice most of the weekend at Hakkoda! I'm there Sat
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Where are you going? Little more info. We have 13s here in Misawa
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sorry to change the subject for a minute, but I HEADED UP today to Hakkoda and had a great day etc etc. One thing realllllly pissed me off though, and it has happened more than one time. Early in the morning before the lift opened up some Aussie guys rolled in. I said "Hey, how's it going?" No I didn't know them, but we are in a place where very few people speak English. All four of them walked by and just stared at me. Once the lift opened, they headed up and I said "Have a good run." Once again they just looked at me and walked off. fast forward 20 minutes. 0 visibility, and I come to an area where there is a traffic jam. I keep hearing, HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!. One of them had fallen in a 12 foot tree well and just could not get out. I just went right on by and said "Have a good run." He was close to the run and uninjured, and having been completely blown off earlier by them I felt little need to help. I didn't see any of them the rest of the day and was glad. To add insult to injury all the local riders were reenacting the HERRP HERRRP HERRP by the fireplace when I got back to the bottom. Why do so many people act so tough on the mountain???
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Hakkoda tomorrow
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Appi is sweet when it snows, sucks when it's not. Honestly with Hakkoda only 70km away it's kinda hard to find a reason to search for a bunch of other places. Hakkoda is any run you want it to be. There is a place called Shizukuishi that is 100% awesome. Need to go back there actually.
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It was snowing super hard when I left by the way today and there was already a fresh 30 INCHES on the ground.. It was REALLY hard to ride, and maybe not the greatest conditions to go full backcountry crazy if that's what you were planning. It's 30+ inches of the super dry light snow. I never saw as many people stuck in the snow as I did today.
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I ride a 180cm at Hakkoda and at full tilt the nose will shudder. I don't think it's uncommon for that to happen. Sucks you weren't at Hakkkoda today. A bunch of us were there.
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All of it is from a group called Ratatat
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Here is Geto Kogen. Will upload these tonight to .tv after work! I know these aren't super detail oriented, but just gives you a sense of the hills and such. Geto has 35 degree slopes and they are lots of fun!
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Cool Memphis Hawk.
Do you have any photos of these places too to upload to SJ?
Very keen to see and visualise them in photo form.
The photos I have are meh at best. I focused on making the videos and didn't bring any cameras capable of high quality still images.
nice to see the Tohoku resorts get a bit of exposure.......don't know much about any of the ones past Fukushima. I would love to get up to aomori, Akita etc and check em all out. you should get this moved over to the main forums so more people can see.....keep us posted throughout the season with your Powder hunting shenanigans
I don't know how to move it to the main forums besides post it there and just ask for this now to be deleted...? mods?
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Trying to find out if anyone has ever gone from the tippy top on skis or board that's been documented. Thinking of doing it this year.
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Not really reports, but you can see the mountains up here as I make videos.. Here is Naqua Shirakami and Hakkoda. Up next is Getou Kogen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQFT46ZKVw
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Just woke up to 20~ cm of fresh snow in Misawa! If it snows here then it is absolutely destroying Hakkoda with snow ! On my way in a few hours! The road to Hakkoda doesn't open until 7:30
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As long as I'm not snowboarding through Hirosaki in May I'm good to go, haha. I have no idea what possessed me to buy this outfit. I saw it on the mannequin and I was like, oh my god. Now all the people in the cable car at hakkoda with me are like WTF GAIJIN
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No I've been back to Hakkoda 5-6 times since then and have a 4 day stint planned there this weekend. Out of those 5-6 times I've had another person with me half the time, and we ventured out far and wide. By myself I stick to within eyesight of the trail in unfamiliar portions and off trail only where I've been 1000 times already. No new adventures when I'm alone!