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I love having a good stiffie!
I got a nitro naturals last year and had a mindblowing experience like the one described by badmigrane. That was a cool story!
LOVE
PEAKER
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Yeah
I rode a bmc last year. I made it into a splt board.
Great "Superfly " !!! core looked really cool hanging out the arse end of my nice new bmc. burton blows goats
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Peaker
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The board park in niseko is definately not huge basically
a table and a spine. the spine last year was definately a biggie. Ive spent most of the summer regretting not having the sack to hit it full speed. Theres a nice area just up from kfc where people build heaps of jumps and hang out you can almost always find a nice kicker with a powder landing there. Dont know much about rails, still need to work on expanding the sack for those. Everytime I try it I end up with a nice blue rail tatoo across the back, and thats on the easy ones they set up on course.
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Id Love to tell you a few stories but Im too busy
waxing up the board. Im sure I saw a snowflake yesterday.
What are you going to do up here?
What kind of boarding r u into?
Might see you around
Peaker
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its getting on my tits too. Ive tried everything. Skateboard, Mtb, booze. I need to snowboard... sun oh sun why do you mock me.....dribble.....gaaahhhh.....tropooo.....uggggg
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Lookin for peaker??
you just found him
Photo shoot sounds interesting. That wouldnt have been for a movie about sensitive new age guys who snowboard would it!! Title: Frozen snags freestyle festiball.
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yo powwwerrrs,
Goin good, DB!!! but hey this
peaker aint back home. Im still here bro, looking forward to a session next season. Crash at my place if you want.
Did you hear I busted my arm. All DB now!
P p p p peeeeaker
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R U Tochigi Andy by any chance.
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My sicerest apologies to you grungy. Ive obviously been taken in by an elaborate plot to hijack your esteemed title.Most ungentlemanly. I propose a duel... the battle of the gonads perhaps.
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grungy gonads,
you crack me up but I bet you stink and... no I dont want to see.
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There sure are a lot of great places to Board in Japan andeverybody loves their local area, thats cool. Snowboarding is such a rad sport.
Im sure everyone who has written in hopes you guys make itover and have a great time.
Living at a resort could be cool but there are four of youtrying to get work and accomadation and you dont have a lot of time, money or language skills. The kind situation youre looking for may be difficult to hook up especially if you are out of the country. Id still reccommend sapporo
because
1. Work- If you decide to go to Honshu youll land in Tokyoor Osaka, there are plenty of Jobs in these places but these cities are too far from the snowboarding spots. Youll have to travel to a resort area which will cost heaps and then youll have to deal with the language and hassles of trying to find work in a smaller town. Maybe Nagano would beOK but I think you still need to travel to the resorts from there? Im not sure about that though!
If you come to Sapporo you can basically step of the planeand go snowboarding! There are a wider range of jobs to check out eg teaching, bars ect. From here you can easily contact or travel to a few resorts eg. Niseko / Teine/ rusustsu/ furano..... if you can get a job at a resort, great you pack your bag and go if not, no big deal you still have snowboarding at your front door and the opportunity to find other work.
2 Transport- Ive personally found it cheaper and easier toget around in Hokkaido, I dont have a car. The rail and bus companies have some great deals. For example the JR Skip ticket. This is a combined travel and lift pass lets look at Niseko for example
cost of one day lift pass \4500 (at mountain)
cost of Skip ticket including lift and train from sapporo \4900
There are a lot of deals like this, The cheapest is probably Teine Highland you take a city train and bus to the resort about 30 mins from the centre of town. Travel plus four hour lift pass \2990 or travel plus night boarding About\1700
these are just a couple of examples Itll seem expensive when you convert to nz dollars but these are some good deals for Japan
3.Accomodation- Again if you base yourself in sapporo youve got more chance of finding what you need and access to english information. There Is an International Communication plaza here with a noticeboard for finding accomadation ect. Id be happy to put a notice up for you. Youd have to provide your E mail though so perhaps youd prefer to contact them yourself at www.plaza-sapporo.or.jp
Once again, Good luck in your search
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Emily,
Id really think about going to Sapporo. Its a big city but you can easily access heaps of resorts. Finding work at a resort could be difficult but if you are in Sapporo with a working holiday visa you could get a part time joband travel around to a variety of snowboarding spots. I work full time here but there are places so close or even inthe city that I can still board before or after work everyday if I want to. On the weekend Its tough deciding where to go, so many great resorts to choose from. Oh by the wayHokkaido also gets the best powder in Japan, and lots of it. There are also a lot of snowboard events to check out if youre into that kind of stuff eg.The toyota big air and the world cup. Northern Honshu is definately good too as others have said but Itll be hard to find work in that area and Hokkaido is better anyway, I used to live on Honshu and I moved up here for snowboarding.
Anyway Good luck
Sorry If My Sapporo fixation offended any Honshu residents!
Japanese topographic maps
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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Does anyone know much about Japanese maps. I think Ive basically got it worked out but my Kanji is limited so its a bit tough.
Why isnt there a declination diagram on the maps?
The map Im looking at has 9 degrees 30 minutes written
as point 5 in the map margin (under the legend) I also recognise Kanji for west here with a lot of other kanji. Im
assuming the declination for this map was 9 deg 30 min west. Right?
How do I convert the map date to a western year?
How about tranlsations for vegetation symbols?
any info would appreciated?