mogski

I am sure even interpreturs can get a peice of the action too. badmigraine! Where is the classified add requesting for interpreters?!! Screw getting permission from work, I'm outta here!

Nat you are a girl??? From your posts I never would've guessed. I don't beleive you. Prove it to me!

Go go foreigners!!!!!! GAIATSU! GAIATSU!!!

Really? Mine blew down last night.

Price of lift tickets might be comparable to the US or Europe, but the value for money certainly isn't. This pretty much sums up the issue at hand. People are not happy with what they are getting for what they are paying. As for the cost of living going down, where exactly do you live? In a box in the park down the corner????

Is there any particular reason you wish to have your own bathroom?

My vote goes to the the Hirafu Chalet! Communal bath and kitchen, but great little place to meet people, have some fun and enjoy yourselves. See all in Niseko in two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! [This message has been edited by mogski (edited 05 February 2002).]

Ever occurred to some of you guys that perhaps things are just too damn expensive in this so called recession? I am no expert here, but if you want people to spend what do you do? The most obvious thing in my book is give them a reason to spend. How can it be that during times of recession the prices stay the same or go up, but the salary(or the spending power of Tanaka) gets reduced? Why do Japanese people spend up large overseas? BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER!!! Their hard earned Yens go futher! You know, I am glad I am not an expert becasue I don't have to make silly little b-

Are you missing something? I think the best way to answer that is go to Japanese resort and take a look at the roped off areas. I think you will find that if you spread the people you see on the resorts out on the whole mountain(if it were accesible) there really wouldn't be that many. It just seems alot becasue they all have no choice but to ge where everybody else does. I think one of points of the "double standards" thread is not that we want first tracks in all powder, it is we want to have the chance to have this and have it without being criminalised for it. Sure ple

FOE!!!! FOE!!!!!!!!!! FOE!!!!!!!!!!!! Naeba hates day trippers! Clearly estabilshed by the fact the all the beleived(don't know if it is true cause can't be bothered walking all that damn way) day facilities are at the furthest end of the resort! What the hell is with that "Dragondola"?! Could've spent that money on opening up more terrian in Naeba itself! Or perhps facilites for day trippers! [This message has been edited by mogski (edited 05 February 2002).]

They close all the lifts to the top of Naeba down!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go All Blacks!!!

The thing where the Japanese atheletes have gone to the US is the Olympics? Why didn't they tell me there were other countries on TV?!!! BTW, same can be said for the Soccer World cup....

belle, I think the patrolly learnt something from you. The thrill of powder!!! Hence the attitude when he caught up with you.

SJG discussing for a few years?! I would take this to mean that perhaps there is no end too or solution in sight in a hell of a hurry. Disheartening... Looks like it's time for heavy Gaiatsu folks!!!

Don't start! It never ends!!!! Half of my life has been taken up by the study of Japanese and still the counter people at MacDonalds talk to the Japanese people with me when I am the one who made the damn order!!! [This message has been edited by mogski (edited 01 February 2002).]

If Japan was supposed to be a safe place why would they need to sell locks in the first place? If you look at it like this, I would say the answer was pretty simple.

Try changing the words park and everything else in that little bit about whooping after jumps etc. that refers to hard packed and you have the point I am getting at. This is the DOUBLE STANDARD I can see. Regarding SJG and their stance. Putting aside that there is an article re powder skiing in Hokkaido, If you were the mediator of anything wouldn't you want to remain in a nuetral position ? Afterall, if SJG take a stance either way, they will incriminate themselves. They probably have issues that they want to voice too, but can you imagine the s@!t they would get from people like

Robert, what are the reason's this person is giving for resort hurting? No-one on the side of the resorts has yet to make a good case for them. You all tell us they are hurting, but in what way? They are not making money? I wonder why?

yuled, you could look at it the other way and say perhaps those who are not very vocferious about it are fine with commercialised brainwashing, or their level does not warrant commenting? How many people do you actually hear whooping and wailing after a run on the hard pack? On that same hard pack, how many people do you see so pumped they could float to the top of the mountain? Sure there is fun to be had in hard pack, but there is life to be had in powder. [This message has been edited by mogski (edited 31 January 2002).] [This message has been edited by mogski (edit

brit-gob are they really doing everything they can? From my amatuer point of view I beleive not. I wish not to blame it on marketing and business strategies, but what else is there too blame it on? Look at all the complaints and observances so far. There seems to be a continuous trend of the same nature.

I think the only restrictions on the resorts is the b-sh!t Forestry and Angricultural Ministry's protection of forests and fauna that they would gladly give up if it meant a new highway was to be put in so they could make huge bucks off the over-tender. I disagree with what you say about these places hurting, having many restraints, etc. If they have a consumer oriented business mind they would act against these restraints. They can drop prices and get more people in. Afterall a 1000 people at .5 yen versus a 100 people at 1 yen means more Yens in the pocket. Add to this the givin

NoFakie your point is valid. I would not like to be in a search pary either. Nor would I like to be the subject of one. However, the case at hand is not skin strapping, shovel, probe, beacon back country powder. It's in-bounds roped off areas that people are skiing/boarding where I can see a double standard. Sure if you wanna go in the backcountry you must accept the risk, but as long as I am paying 4,500 yen or so for a ticket I want my money's worth. I don't know about anyone else, but when I am putting down my hard earned cash on a day or weekend's skiing and roll on up to the

How high depends if you are a sexy woman or not....

Who are the ones who give reason to the field being there? Beleive me, I have thought about this angle. But it just don't fit. They can make all the rules they want, but if they don't give people what they want then they will soon find out that the laws of consuming no longer work in their favour. Nor will any lifites, ticket people etc. cause there won't be any money working in their favour either. [This message has been edited by mogski (edited 29 January 2002).]