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Dunno... But I like the look of that valley up the right hand side!
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Telluride's on my bucket list, but it's such a PITA to get to...
Yeah, man! The resort map looks awesome! Plenty to keep you entertained that's for sure...
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According to Reddit, this is where the drop happened -Telluride Ski Resort, CO.
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Enjoyed the vid Bushiman. Nice work.
Cheers u-tan!
Being in Niigata you might recognise one or two of those spots!
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It looks like boot prints where people have pulled up before the cliff and hiked back up round skiers right to safety...
Don't know what the dude was thinking...
I was expecting an avalanche vid when I first clicked on the clip, but oh no....
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Woah...
A reminder to always stay on your toes when off in unknown terrain...
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Yeah, I mean as far as I can tell from the YouTube vids of Red Mountain tree lines, I think you'd definitely find stuff to keep you entertained in and around Nagano/Niigata... You probably won't get lines anywhere near as long though -especially lift accessed...
Here's a vid of my favourite slackcountry lines from a few seasons ago... Having no idea what a double black is like I can't comment, but at least you'll get the gist perhaps of some of the lift-accessed terrain available here...
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( Sorry Bushiman, I deleted your post. Please don't be angry but if you are please email me ).
Nah, I'm good cheers...
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Are the runs on the bottom left hand corner of the trail map part of the resort? Looks like it has some ok terrain as well.
Don't think so... On the satelite photo it says that area is Katashina Miyahara(?) Ski-jo...
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I have not been but going to guess, Niseko Annupuri... on the island of Japan.
BINGO! It is indeed Annupuri, and it most certainly is on the island of Japan!
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Nope...Kagura?
Nope...Naeba
More nope...Seki Onsen
Big clue: I'm standing on the ridgeline down the center of this pic...
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Ha! I can't remember if you were there that day or not! So better say, "No"!Can I guess?
Nope...Joetsu Kokusai ?
Nope...Ishiuchi Hanaoka ?
And nope!HakkaisanClue #2: Not Nagano, and not Gunma...
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Nope...Cortina?
And more nope...NorikuraIt's not in Nagano Prefecture...
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Good guess, but that would've been too easy!
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Yeah, we were so lucky to catch the conditions as good as we did!
A line or 2 may weasel their way into my yearly round-up vid, that's for sure...
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Mt Granview?
Close!
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Having spent the last 10+ years riding your typical big/popular resorts in Nagano/Niigata/Hokkaido, this season I fancied a change...
Pre-season I'd spent a good long while looking at Google Earth, and topographical maps searching for the kind of resort I like... Something a long the lines of Hakuba Cortina.
For any of you that have ridden at Cortina, you'll know that the whole resort centers around a large bowl with everything (pretty much) funneling down to one run in the middle. No traverse ins/outs. Steep. Trees. Perfect.... Only problem is that over the last 3years, Cortina has become the Mecca for powder hounds from home & abroad and the resort is too small to deal with this influx of new customers. I went this season in early FEB and got maybe 8 lines in the entire day due to queues for lifts!? Shocking. /rant
Anyway, my search was on...
That search led me to Oze Iwakura 'White World'.
From the satalite images/topo map it looked perfect. One giant bowl. Steep. Trees. Perfect... I googled photos of the resort, and was instantly keen to give the place a whirl. Now, I needed winter to turn up and the opportunity to go....
That opportunity came thanks to a SnowJapan giveaway!
The week prior to going it rained... Pretty much everywhere... So my expectations weren't high, even though I knew that region of Gunma had been forecast snow...
My buddy NECK & I headed off early that morning full of anticipation, and after 3hrs, rocked up into the carpark just before 10am where we met Gunma Boarder -who had provided us with lots of useful info on the SJForums... It was snowing... It was getting heavier....
We hopped on the shuttle bus that took us the 5mins from carpark to resort, and jumped in the (single!?) line for tickets. That took a while. Then onto our first lift up the mountian... Potential tree lines everywhere! I was hyped indeed -especially as I couldn't make out a single track in any of it, and it was gone 10am!?
First line. Steep. Bottomless. Tight trees. Easy in, easy out. Perfect.
Second line. Steep. Bottomless. Tight trees. Ridge line. Gully. Amazing.
Third line. Steep. Tight trees. Bottomless. Cliffs. No patrol. Big smiles all round!
Rinse & repeat...
We explored a bunch of areas, safe in the knowledge that eventually we'd get spat out somewhere inbounds thanks to the bowl layout.
The one and only piste line we did all day (the Milky Way,) was, er... good!? Hahaha! We only rode it to scope some more trees, but the piste itself was fairly wide, open, long, with mild gradient -perfect for beginners...
For those of you into riding piste, I did note that they actually closed off Champions Course A&B during lunch and re-groomed them for the afternoon...
Lunch was decent, cheap and just off the main piste halfway down. What impressed us was that they had two large heating stoves in the restaurant with plenty of coat-hangers, pegs and hooks so everyone could de-layer and get things dried before heading back out.
After lunch, thanks to it absolutely puking fat chunks of snow, our tracks had filled...
We rode till almost last lifts, and only then did patrol come have a word... Unfortunately for him, we'd had the most epic day and were just leaving so threatening to take our tickets was met with much laughter! Hahaha... Poor chap. It kind of flummoxed him, and he skied off muttering angrily to himself....
Conclusion:
I wish White World was closer than 3hrs away...
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My turn! My turn!
Was going to post something fiendishly difficult, yet opted for this beauty...
Where is it?
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Better watch out, Bushiman, sounds like NECK is scheming to sell your board.
Hahaha! Cheeky mofo!
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Required skill level?
The one guy who almost died (from sliding on sheet ice ~200feet into rocks) was a pretty average rider -mostly piste and a little slackcountry... Everyone else was pretty competant in the backcountry....
Crampons would be compulsory, or at least real legit snowshoes with decent side rails...
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All the people I know who have ridden Fuji have done it around the 13th May....
Conditions: Top -Hella icey, almost zero control
Middle -Not too bad
Bottom -Slush
But hey, to say you've ridden down Fuji would be awesome! I'd love to try...
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Sounds good to me. Let's get on it tomorrow
Hey Gunma Boarder, you want me to bring the 'Slackcountry' 161 for you to check out? Will part with it for 25,000, which is a bargain
That is a bargain! I have Slackcountry 161 and it's a great board...
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From that photo, it looks like the valley might spit you out back to the resort, or at least close to....
Might have to take a peek at a contour map once someone HURRIES UP AND GETS THIS PLACE!