Boolugu Mez
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Yes the power lines are excellent and in fact their presence should be celebrated !!!
They remind us of mans dominion over nature by virtue of our innate and unsurpassed ability to generate electricity ........
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For sure Rucky, always is - last year I got fresh tracks in a foot of fresh pow on the runway at Nairta
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Well that's good news, JMA must have updated - I looked at this last week and their prediction was generally for things on the warmer side - still it's hard to put too much faith in a 3 month forecast based on averages, a few cold weeks early on and some subsequent warmer spells can spoil disaster for us short term trippers....
I want to know specifically if there will be massive dumps with low wind when I am there in the first couple of weeks in February....
Where is that reputable clairvoyant when I need him /her ????
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Where is this clairvoyant, and how do I arrange to give him / her loads of my money so he / she can tell me precisely when the best conditions will be???????
I have already booked but I'm worried that I could miss out on the very best days of the very best pow of the season !!!!
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well that definitely ties in with the results of another study released yesterday entitled " It was a rather cool-ish evening so I turned on my heater " in this study it was shown that it was, in fact, cool enough to require the use of artificial heating in order to overcome the (possibly) localised but more likely global effect of decline in temperature which may or may not be due to the start of an ice age.......
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Antarctic sea ice is covering a larger area, but there has been record reduction in the extent of the land based ice.......... which accounts for a huge proportion of total volume of land based ice in the world........ ... and the melting of the land based ice decreases the salinity of the sea immediately around Antarctica because of the massive extra volume of fresh water pouring off the land....... lower salinity of the ocean allows it to freeze at higher temperatures........... so for me, while interesting, not any kind of proof the world isn't heating up.....
Just saying.......
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Soooo....first snow is earlier this year, but the annual climate change / ice-age debate is right on cue
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"satan oscillate my metallic sonatas" is the longest palindromic sentence that I have heard....
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Well just cause I enjoy a healthy debate backed up with a bit of "Facts" , and without "Cherry Picking" data or hysteria either way - the Bureau Of Meteorology annual reports show 2013 as the hottest year on record for Australia, 2012 above average, 2011 was the only year in the previous decade where ...some..... parts of the country were below average....... so across Australia ( kind of a big place.. ) it hasn't really been that cold lately.......
Just sayin....
I would love it to be a bit colder, even if only a few degrees and only in the mountains for the benefit of fluffy white goodness, but I'm kind of hesitant to say the ice age cometh..... unless global warming leads to an influx of fresh water into the ocean and stops the north Atlantic conveyor which may mean Australia cooks while Europe shivers........
Maybe...
and so forth.......
Science ....
Rhetoric......
and stuff........
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Yeah loads of my mates teach skiing on Hokkaido for the Northern Hemisphere winter and then teach in Australia, NZ or Chile for the Southern Hemisphere winter.
Some rack up over 200 days on snow per calendar year.
Speaking of tuition, been meaning to ask you for details of your services - as I don't know how to do private message on this site - do you mind getting in touch with me to discuss? Will be in Niseko in feb 2015 with my family and they will want lessons...... thanks in advance !!
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As one who skied regularly up till I was 19, then started boarding at 35, I reckon boarding is a bit harder on a different muscle group of your legs than skiing is, yet is much easier on the knees themselves....( I feel it in the thighs and outside parts lower thighs where the muscle joins the knees )
I reckon you're not as likely to do ACL injury when boarding as you don't have the possibility of stressing your knees if your skis get crossed / out of parallel.... ( in my not so expert opinion )
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arrrrgggghhhh - tell us pleeeaaaseee !!!
The suspense is killing me already !!!
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Given that the "on Meth" and burglary connection now been firmly established, I reckon I will start up a security company in Toronto.......and maybe as a side business, a chain of Meth Labs & security companies in Japan..........
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I detect some sarcasm in there.
Well yes... and no - It was a record dump....... for Tokyo ( i recall the news reports saying biggest in maybe 15 - 20 years ? )
As I said though, would rather have had it at the resort. Not a great trip statistic when the biggest dump you get while on your holiday is at Narita airport
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Tokyo ( located on an island ) definitely got a mega dump on the 8th Feb - 30cm reported, and we scored first tracks in bottomless pow while our plane made its way to the terminal on the airport taxi-ways when we arrived at 6am on the 9th Feb !!!
Unfortunately this mega dump would have been much more welcome had it hit the resort, as it meant we were stuck in Narita for 14 hrs with no flights leaving for Sapporo ( which is located on a separate island - nonetheless, still located on an island..... ) , before the trains started moving again and we managed to get a 3 and a half hour train ride into Kawasaki ( located on the afore mentioned island - the one with Tokyo on it )
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From my perspective as viewed from afar ( very afar actually ) there were a couple of things which appear to have made this season a bit less than epic overall, especially when compared with last year (for Niseko at least)
Bearing in mind that I only spent 2 weeks "in country" around early- mid Feb, both this year and last year, I do obsessively read the Now Reports, Mike Pow's season report and daily avalanche info.
Things that really stood out for me this season as viewed onlline from Aus, and 2 weeks on the snow are:
1) Early season - a couple of good dumps in November followed by rain which obliterated the early base, meaning the resorts opened a week later than planned = NOT GOOD
2) January seemed to be blasting but then around the last week the taps seemed to turn right down through into early Feb. = NOT EPIC
3) My stay this year was summed up by the phrase "when is it going the snow for real so we can get some pow instead of sliding on this crusty and chopped up base ?!?!?!?" While I was there they even groomed Misoshiru FFS cause it was so cut up they would have had to re-name the run "Mogul-Shiru" and re-print all of the trail maps = NOT EPIC
5) Snowfall totals are well down on last year - Now reports this year at end of march showed season total of 1150cm compared with 1549cm last year IE this year had only 74% of the amount received last year - Feb in particular seemed to cop a drought - 178cm this year vs 406cm last year ( A mere 43% of last Feb !!!!!!!!!! ) = NOT GOOD, NOT GOOD, NOT GOOD, and certainly NOT EPIC.
Don't get me wrong - I don't want to seem like I am saying it was all Doom and Gloom - while I was there this year we did get some snowfall towards the end of my trip, though the first week we were struggling to break the 10-15cm mark which is nice but surely not EPIC. I did have an absolute blast but compared with last year it was no contest ( I acknowledge that is the randomness of weather over a given 2 weeks, not representative of an entire season )
Interestingly, while riding the lifts /gondolas during that first week I spoke with several groups of folks on their first trip over who were buzzing and excitedly saying "Yeah, WOW !! it's Amazing!! All the locals are saying this is the best season ever!!!!! " so the hype factor was definitely on par with what you would expect.... easily as high as it was last year
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Do droids have ancestors?
Maybe Obi should apologise to his toaster & VCR just in case
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That is so funny that it broke my brain
( and I actually quite like Radiohead )
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who cares, R2D2, the most 3-dimensional character in all the films is in it.
Why didn't obi wan kenobi know who R2 and C3PO were in Star Wars IV when Luke Skywalker introduced them after Obi Wan saved them from the desert monsters......he met them in Star Wars I
Good Point......... maybe they are like cars, loads of units made for each model? Or maybe Obi is a droidist and thinks they all look the same
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Doing that in one climb is pretty gnarly - most folk need to do it in stages over several days or even weeks in order to acclimatise and avoid the seriously debilitating and often deadly effects of altitude sickness.
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We really need the Royals, and a Royal visit is Just Super !!!
If we didn't have the Royals, what would be the point of our fearless leader bringing back the honour system of recognising highly all of the acheiving Aussies with a Knighthood / Dame title?
Plus, we mustn't forget the huge contibution that the Royals make to our economy - without them some excellent, highly credible and respected journalistiic publications like Womens Weekly and New Idea magazines would be forced out of business due to a lack of Royal Family news items, which are a source of vital information to the majority of Aussie society.......
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I myself am one of those filthy smokers, but cannot stand the act of doing it indoors or even in a car. Was very pleased when pubs & clubs banned indoor smoking in Aus.
Almost vomit when I'm in Japan having a smoke in those tiny little glass rooms at airports & hotels.... my theory is that they do it not as a convenience for smokers, but rather as a form of punishment for their evil habit.
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If I read things right did you get to go on two of the HPG tours Kokodoko?
Wanted: Winter Stoke!
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I have the "seirus" wrist guards and they are pretty comfy as these things go... they fit under my gloves ok, but having said that I did get my wrist guards first, and took them into the store when I bought my gloves so I could be sure...