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AGREED!
if its not ropped off, than thats bullsh!t...
but face it...in general, japanese are just
super worry-worries...
I mean, we are talking about people that insist on wearing snow-chains/snow-tires
if you drive to the mtn (forget the fact
that the roads could be completly dry!)...
patrol just assumes that a stationary tree
posses more danger than a Tanaka moving
at 20km/hr off a death kicker...
no point in trying to analyze...just learn
to live with it...
danz
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I live near the base of the towering, massive, yet elusive Mt. Tsukuba...the pride of Ibaraki...
A ropeway can take you to the top, where
the finest and steepest backcountry awaits...
over the last year Tsukuba-san has been blessed with a whopping 10cm of snow...and
that is probably a conservative estimate...
This is no mountain for the weak hearted...
no weekend warriors here...only the hardest
of the hard-core...
you may ask, "if this is such a great mt,
why haven't SJG covered it yet??" well my
friends...this is the greatest secret in japan, and it would not be wise to spread the
word...I am in grave danger myself for having
divulged this most important and ancient secret...
Ride it if you Dare!
danz
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yeeeee-haaaaaw....
i've created a 100post thread!
I feel very accomplished...
a proud day indeed...
danz
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Matt...
are you kidding?? I love driving here...
i've been here for a yr now...and if
i'm driving under 90km, i feel like i'm
going slow...at least out here in tsukuba
cops are nowhere to be found...
and those cardboard cut-outs of cop-cars
and officers are also VERY effective (ha ha)
i did get pulled over once...and for 20
minutes i was pulling the "no comprendo
japanese" bit, and the officer gave up
out of frustration...
driving here is better than a PS2...word
danz
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hutch...
if it is an in-bounds powder run,
shouldn't patrol be doing some sort
of avalanche control (blasting...)??
or is this just another one of my delusional
views on how a ski-resort should be run...
danz
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sounds good...
anyone know how long of a drive it is
from tokyo area??
danz
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NEED 24-HR CASH MACHINES!!!!
i spent 1.5hrs this morning waiting for
the atm to open so i could get my car
out of a parking lot...
kirin has a sneaky way of making you forget stuff...
danz
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ahh...my belle...
a skier at heart...don't fight it...
come back to the good side...
ocean11's board might take up too much
space on the quad, so let us ride
the romance chair!
danz
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aha...you can't hide from me!
I WILL break you...
before next season you will be on some
FAT SKIIS!
Prepare yourself...
danz
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what's the dilly with this place...
SJG claims the longest run is 50000m...
why do I have a hard time believing that...
steepest is 42 deg?? is this true...
only review is about how romantic a place
it is...could it be more romantic than
naeba??
I have to use my FREE TICKET (thanks sjg!)
(anyone jealous yet...ha ha)
danz
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wow...that's a first...
so Naeba is a good place to pick up
chicks...
does that mean the gondola has velvet
couches, dimed lights, and a bar?
hey, that doesn't sound like such a bad
idea...
are there lubu-hoteru at midstation?
or do they offer sleeper gondolas for
members of the mile high club...
i gots to get me to naeba...
danz
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Is this really happening??
doth my eyes decieve me??
a peace offering from ocean11...
I'm flattered...
i will certainly call upon you if i head
that way again...but i will be incognito
during feb....going back home for a few weeks...so you must wait till march..
peace
danz
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hey jinja...
i wouldn't go offpiste at nozawa
until there is another significant dump...
top layer is crappy and not deep...
underneath is pure nastiness from repeated
freeze/thaw conditions...
save yourself the trouble...
danz
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yes....more...
does botsford get the chickmonk?
what's in store for Arthur the Hedgehog??
and the question of the hour, is crispin
a boarder or skier?? I mean, would a boarder
mouse ever wear a paddington bear outfit?
readers want to know...
danz
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so is there no real distinction between
high-end boarding equipment and mid-range...
in skiing, its like the difference between
driving a Ferrari v. a Pinto...pressuring
the ski is like stepping on the gas pedal...
definetly performance affects cost...
how bout for boarding?
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thats just great ocean11...
you've really nailed it this time...
skiers are dorks
boarders are cool...
yes...most skiers in japan for some reason
are stuck with their neon outfits from
the 80's...but i challenge you to find a
pair of green stretch pants in any ski shop
these days...
get over it boarders...modern ski wear is
not the monster you think it is...
ocean11...were you abused by a skier as
child?? did they "touch you..."?? you really
seem to have a major quibble with us...
danz
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how much does a new high-end board
w/bindings cost anyway?? I can't imagine
its that much cheaper than a new ski-rig...
danz
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so i wanna know more about these fatties...
are they only good in the pow??
what happens when you take them on
hard-pack, cordoried, ice, crud...
what am i getting at...are fatties as
good as having an all mtn. ski?? or are
they a 1 dimensional tool...
ski equip is EXPENSIVE!!
gotta choose wisely...
thanks...
danz
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was up at nozawa onsen this weekend...
spring skiing conditions...not right
for the middle of january...
bottom half of the mtn. was all sugar
still good coverage overall, but it needs
to get cold, or else theres going to be trouble
also, totally empty this weekend...no crowds
anywhere...and also , NO JPOP! YEE HAW...
one thing i still don't understand (echoing
some previous posts) is why they rope off
some of those trailss..the tree run underneath the quad at the top is completly
safe...you can scout the ENTIRE run from the
lift, but they rope it off...pointless...
i saw a guy duck in, and the patrollers were
yelling at him from their little room with the PA system...it was hilarious, i thought
i was at the beach or something getting yelled at by the lifeguard...completely useless...
anyway, good mtn., nice little town...needs
more snow....
peace,
danz
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cat skiing...
you ride those big snow-cats, usually
used for gromming the mtn, up the mtn
to a place where lifts wont take you...
you get out and ski pow...
danz
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yo...
before japan spent 6yrs in boston...
had the pleasure of skiing the finest
blue ice in the world around New Englan
...if it snowed like 10cm, that would be a good powder day...man made snow grows on
you, I already miss it in a wierd twisted
way...
but...love the pow...need the pow...can't
get enough of the pow...japan has been good
to me so far (7 days on snow, 4 of them pow pow days)
hey...could you point me to a more specific
link about those atomics?? i couldn't
find it on the website...very interesting...
danz
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yo...
in tsukuba now, but moving to kasiwa
(chiba-ken) next month... how bout you?
heading to nozawa this weekend...doin
my yuki-kami-sama prayers...
danz
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hey hutch...
I once demoed the Rossi Bandit XX
(maybe last year)...I think those are
in the mid-fat range...didn't have much
pow to ride at the time, so can't comment
on how they handle in those conditions...
on the rest of the mountain, i found them
very unresponsive...couldn't find any radius
that really worked for those skiis...had more
fun on the salamon xscreams (are those mid-fats too??)...
for now i'm still riding my sl skiis...
danz
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blackcomb-whistler -- canada
chamonix -- france
Jackson Hole -- Wyoming
anything you could possibly want
are at those locals...enjoy
danz
Double standards?
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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do you know of any mountains that don't
parctice this double standard?? I'd
like to know...
have you complained to Nozawa about not
opening the tree run under the quad at top??
how many complaints before they open it??
My guess is most of these type of complaints
come from people like us (gaijin that is), and i doubt a change...unless you know otherwise...
i will keep ducking ropes and getting my powder fix...filing a comlaint, the way things work in japan, would take too much of
my time...
maybe we should start a massive campaign...
Snow Riders For Better Snow Riding in Japan
flood every ski resort with email complaints...would SJG sponsor this?
danz
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