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All contests: until 30th June 2009 We're happy to announce our new Photo Contests for the 08/09 season. This season we are doing things differently and are opening the contests up so that every single photo uploaded to SnowJapan will be valid for at least one competition (rather than only photos taken at just a handful of resorts). This season there are going to be 10 winners, sharing a collective prize of 50 lift tickets that will be valid next season (09/10) at (specified) Japanese resorts. Entering each of the contests is very simple - any photo uploaded to the SnowJap

SnowJapan Yuzawa Photo Contest 07/08 - The Results Here are the winners* of the SJ Yuzawa Photo Contest 07/08. The winners were chosen by the friendly people at the Yuzawa Town Tourism Association from valid photos uploaded to SnowJapan last season. Just to be clear, the photos submitted to Yuzawa were coded - making them anonymous. There was no favouritism and no bias - just the photos for Yuzawa to choose the winners. 1st Prize - 10 Yuzawa lift pass vouchers Winner: muikabochi 2nd Prize - 5 Yuzawa lift pass vouchers Winner: pie-eater 3rd Prize

SnowJapan Nozawa Photo Contest 07/08 - The Results Here are the winners* of the SJ Nozawa Photo Contest 07/08. The winners were chosen by the friendly people at the Nozawa snow resort from valid photos uploaded to SnowJapan last season. Just to be clear, the photos submitted to Nozawa were coded - making them anonymous. There was no favouritism and no bias - just the photos for Nozawa to choose the winners. 1st Prize - 10 Nozawa Onsen lift pass vouchers Winner: slow 2nd Prize - 3 Nozawa Onsen lift pass vouchers Winner: joshnii 3rd Prize - 2 Noza

Very sorry for the delay - we have been pushing as much as we can but we are now nearly there and just waiting for one more decision to be made by one of the places involved. We will then be ready to announce the winners on Friday night (announcement pages etc are all prepared & ready to go once we get the confirmation). We are hoping to notify the winners in advance sometime between tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning. We'll also be announcing a new photo contest for this season which will be a bit different this year. Thanks

I've seen photos!

WEATHER & SNOW FORECASTS For the last 4 or 5 years, during the winter season we have presented a basic weekly weather forecast for many of the ski and snowboard resorts throughout Japan. You might remember it looked like this: For some time now we have been thinking through how we can improve things on the scale that we require. Perhaps with some sadness, it is time to say bye-bye to the little snowmen wearing mysteriously coloured hats and gloves and from today we are happy to have made significant changes to the data that is shown on our resort pages. Here is how

Hmmm not sure about that thursday. Only me and SJ1 that takes them I think, and we feel quite daft doing it as well! We need more people to take them!

For all you phone phans out there waiting for the latest on the Emergency Telephone box. Well, until this morning it was all bare as we have had lots of rain over the last week and no new snowfall. Just a bit of snow last night and here is the box this morning. That snow will have gone by later this afternoon.

WEATHER & SNOW FORECASTS For the last 4 or 5 years, during the winter season we have presented a basic weekly weather forecast for many of the ski and snowboard resorts throughout Japan. You might remember it looked like this: For some time now we have been thinking through how we can improve things on the scale that we require. Perhaps with some sadness, it is time to say bye-bye to the little snowmen wearing mysteriously coloured hats and gloves and from today we are happy to have made significant changes to the data that is shown on our resort pages. Here is how

I don't think we are paying enough.

Hi tommyleather and welcome Take a look at past seasons data and reports here http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/nowcalendar.php http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/niseko-now.php

Update on this - we are still waiting for a few decisions on this, but are pushing to try and get it all sorted asap so that we can announce this (and a new contest) next week. Thank you.

Guess where Ben works? Anyone? Often first time spam posters like this put a bit more thought into it by creating a new thread to get more attention.....

Hello and welcome. No, you won't be able to do anything without using the Gondola - the bottom of the resort is actually at the top of the gondola. So unfortunately you will be out of luck there... If you want a day trip in that area, Kagura is open. See the Yuzawa Now and Naeba Now pages for daily updates on that.

Incorrect. No IP addresses are banned. Not quite as dramatic sounding though is it...

No sorry. But imagine no snow around it and thats what it'll look like.

Hi dawnblue and welcome. I'm sure some people will answer your specific questions. Just in case you have not seen this page yet: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/english.html Enjoy Niseko!

SnowJapan Daily Now! reports from Sunday 23rd November 2008: Click here to view the reports: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/archivednow.php?caldate=2008-11-23 Please note: as the season approaches we will occasionally be updating some of the Now reports. Look for more over the coming weeks as the new season approaches. ----------------------------- Archive Reports NOW CALENDAR (search by date) Individual report pages (latest page with links to archived reports): Niseko Now (Niseko, Hokkaido) Furano Now (Furano, Hokkaido) Hakuba Now (Hakuba, Nagano P

Damn, I thought no-one was watching.

Here it is http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/english/index.html ( Hey, we're allowed to )

Just updated the Naeba Now page - Kagura received up to 30cm of snow last night and they are (apparently) opening large parts of Kagura + Mitsumata this morning.

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/naeba-now.php ....some pics on there too of Kagura

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa/yuzawa.html

There are about 10 resorts within 15 minutes of the main station.

Mattaus, I have turned the PMs on for your account so you should now be able to use them. Thanks.