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Some photos from Kagura on Naeba Now

Well, if we kept the last few days info on the main page, it would just confuse the matter more, wouldn't it? And what you suggest - that caused us such a lot of problems didn't it? And in actual fact, the Now report numbers have traditionally used the official numbers in the table. It seems we just cannot win..... It is impossible for us to ask our report posters (who are all of course located in that location) to go out and measure snow depth every day on the mountain, and if we did do that, where exactly would they take it from anyway? The text commentary for each

Hi ger Thanks for the comments. The limit was 50MB but I now have just increased it to 100MB. Let us know if you ever have any issues. (A few weeks ago the site was undergoing a few changes, but it is settled now).

Sounds good me jane!

Thank you thank you It is most welcome to hear positive comments to balance out the likes of the ones we got this morning.

You're welcome projectsplat.

Well, yes. We just got a mail in which someone branded the whole of SnowJapan as "not credible" and "a bit of a joke" because of this issue. Nice way to start the day....

Like we said in the report, apologies for the confusion on this.

We plan to put the official Hirafu numbers on there - which are presumably on-piste. The number that is followed by (at top) is the snow depth at top. The number that is followed by (at base) is the snow depth at base.

We would love to see them, Mamabear. Any snow vids are most welcome and a wide range of types of videos can only be a good thing. Lots of people don't realise that the Forums part of this site and that community represents only a small section of the traffic and people viewing SnowJapan in general - possibly less than 10%. Not everyone is "hardcore" and as with the resort photos, reviews and other areas of the site - the more the better!

Mamabear, thanks for the suggestions. While we of course hope that a competition might encourage more people to upload videos, we would like to think that people will be uploading them anyway regardless of a competition or not. Hope so! We hope to get lots of vids up there and for it to become a really good collection of Japan related vids... that's why we started it, we'll just have to see how it turns out! Thanks for the feedback.

Sorry forgot the poll! (Oops of course in the poll I mean "don't HAVE a video camera" for the 3rd answer)

OK, we are currently putting together a video competition for this season on our new video site and wanted to ask for some feedback and help. http://www.snowjapan.tv We are going to be doing our best to put together some cool prizes but hope that this will be as much about fun as trying to win them! First of all, we want some categories. We want to have a number of competition categories, for example: -- Best resort vid -- Best backcountry vid -- Best silly vid -- Best powder vid Your ideas? Please post them on here! Also, we're interested to get a bit of

Nice. Might you consider putting that on our own site (as well)? http://www.snowjapan.tv

We have updated the Niseko Now page, and are making a few changed to avoid further confusion. Sorry for the confusion the last few days. Thanks

The page was totally broken up with a huuuge horizontal scroll bar and for many people it looked like the Forums was "broken". If that makes sense.

Only just noticed this. (Someone should have given us a shout). I don't know the answer myself right now -- let me look into this....

About the same as it did on the first post in this thread actually....

Thanks for the offer tsondaboy - actually I'll be in Tokyo from Friday so not this weekend, but hopefully another!

We've made it so all the admin/mods get automatic links when you post their names (SJ#1, etc). Hopefully make it easier for people to contact us if need be. Also, if you type in any of the Now page names, they now automatically link up to the Now pages without you needing to find the link. For example, just type in "Niseko" and "Now" and it will turn into a link to that page on SJ. Try it! Niseko Now Furano Now Yuzawa Now Naeba Now Minakami Now Myoko Now Hakuba Now Shiga Kogen Now Nozawa Now

Now, if you type in Yuzawa Now or YuzawaNow or Niseko Now or NisekoNow on the Forums, it will automatically link up to those daily reporting pages (so no need to find the links, just type in the name)

Yes you're right... Here it is:

neversummer, well here is the official policy. We just don't wish threads to become link-fests. Thanks

Only for snow depth -- we can't go out and make our own measurements every morning. That's why we usually mention how many new cm there has been at town level and on tops of cars etc, to give people a real idea of what is happening. Everything else is from observations and most definitely not just what resorts report. It is very important to us that our reports tell it "like it is" - the good and the bad. We have sometimes even got strong complaints from, been threatened by and had rather heated discussions with certain resorts who didn't like us being so truthful when thing

Thank you. The summary on the calendar: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/nowcalendar.php ..has actually has been there since last season. We thought that it would be a good idea to post daily links to each daily summary on the Forums and hopefully once that builds up into some volume it will become another good way for people to easily find the info they are looking for.