SnowJapan

It is about 20m from the turn off road to Gala Yuzawa on Route 17. In between Yuzawa IC and Ishiuchi Maruyama.

You're welcome. And you know, believe it or not, we never want there to be any 'issues' on here. Anyhow, it seems that the place where some of those photos were hosted was for one reason or another on a blacklist due to security problem we had in the past and so were being automatically blocked. Or something like that. (Nothing to do with the photos themselves or anything like that). SJ#3 has found a way round it and so those pics are now appearing (and they look good!) Of course any photo uploaded to SJ will be fine Thanks!

Yes sorry perhaps I should have mentioned that. Kagura will most definitely be fine, and a fair few resorts will surely be open then - Naeba, Gala Yuzawa, Kandatsu, Iwappara to name but a few. They are also easy to get to as Naspa is only a few minutes bus ride from the station. Things like that are probably mentioned in the reports.

If you look at the bottom of the above page you will see links to monthly archives going back 5 years http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=04&year=2007 http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=03&year=2007 http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=04&year=2006 http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=03&year=2006 http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=04&year=2005 http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now-archive.php?month=03&year=2005

Hi Check the Yuzawa Now reports: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now.php (you can see previous years daily reports) NASPA is town level and it closes in early April (I presume after the days you are staying). Normally it would be ok I think, but last year it was closed by April. There is more snow this year though. Expect spring conditions and probably very mild almost warm weather. Keep your eye on that report above for daily updates.

Yes, but - personally - I would see something like that quickly dropping us deep into that political soup that SJ#1 mentioned in the article.

Yes thanks, we should have a few of those coming up soon actually.

Sorry perhaps my comment was misunderstood. What I meant was - resorts often don't want to say anything other than 'the official line', so interview like that would be dry and not include much of interest, it would just be what they want people to hear. "No comments" on the questions we might really want to ask. Does that make sense? We would like to do such things, but I think we'd have to find someone willing to talk!!

SJ#1 is the one with most of the contacts at resorts, so I'm not really involved in that. But I do know that it is unfortunately not easy to get something that could be a "Feature" without it coming across as simply a promotion. There are lots of 'off-record' comments and info, but we can't really publish those!

In that base of people involved there nationalities involved are: UK, Japan, Australia, US.

No. Thanks for all the feedback (here and by mail). We're open to the idea of doing something like this again in the future answering more questions.

Interesting Journey Man. Facebook stuff - I have no idea. Second point is interesting, I don't know why that is happening and this kind of thing is not my bag.... I'll pass it to someone who's bag it is tomorrow. Thanks. PS Why are you typing with your thumbs?

A new interview with the creator of SnowJapan has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/interviews-andrew-lea.html "Last month I sat down with Mr Andrew Lea, otherwise known on the Forums as SJ#1, and more importantly the creator of SnowJapan and still the man in charge of the operation. Over the years we have had many people ask us about SnowJapan and I took this opportunity to ask him a few questions about the site, how it got started, it's history and future. SJForums (David), February 2008" http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/interviews-andrew-lea.html

Great photos of the box muikabochi.

In the past I don't think they have been shy about adding to numbers. You'd hope though that in a perfect world they would just tell us the actual (real) numbers!!

I really don't know why. It is quite perplexing when it doesn't change over a short period when you know there has been well over 1m. You'd think they would want to be shouting out about it. And more importantly you'd think that with such large amounts of snow falling over a short period that the snow depths would increase! Answers on a postcard please...

Kagura just don't seem to add to their numbers of late, even on the day when they said there was 80cm since the day before! We do try to mention this discrepency quite often in the text of the Now reports.... but it is a little annoying isn't it!?

Hello chili Here are a few: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-gala-experience.html http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-29.html http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-snowboard-instructing-in-japan.html http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-89.html I'm sure you find some more if you do a search on the Foruns: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/search You might also be interested in this: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/jobs-available/index.html Good luck!

No, you can't.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean there janus. If you use some of the map pages here it might help http://www.snowjapan.com/e/maps/toyama-prefecture-maps.html http://www.snowjapan.com/e/maps/nagano-prefecture-maps.html

When I find out I'll let you know!

I can't see the pictures either. I can't see any reason why they are not appearing, so can't really help there sorry. Fattwins + muikabochi. I really don't know what you are both talking about above. I can only guess but it seems to be something about uploading photos to our site. --- On the subject of photos, allow me to make one comment (directed at no-one in particular). Do we hope that people will upload their photos to snowjapan? Yes, of course we do. That's why the photos section is there. On the suggestion of a number of members last year we invested in redeveloping

For the people who hadn't noticed yet, we have 30 lift tickets up for grabs this week - 10 for Zao, 10 for Kusatsu and 10 for Shiga Kogen: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/259301/an/9#Post259301

Another good point and one we will certainly discuss - thanks

I don't think so actually. Maybe one of the threads that we posted when we uploaded all the updates back in November?