montoya

yep

if you are stuck at big restaurant at the base of the #1 quad, you can always hiking up the slope. however that slope is directly exposed to the wind so it's more than likely gonna be pretty scoured. also not much fun with 20-30km/h winds in your face. I usually hit a different resort on super-windy days, such as Kandatsu, etc.

top of naeba (off their website): btw, just picked up the latest issue of Powder Guide (2006 No.6), seems the whole issue is devoted to BC in Japan. check it out if you have the chance, pretty good stuff.

sure, go right ahead. I just sent it off to yuzawanow-at-snowjapan.com address a minute ago. (unfortunately that's the only size he had)

friend took this across from Naeba this morning:

looks like it's snowing at the top of Yuzawa Kogen in Yuzawa: http://www.himawari-ltd.co.jp/aaa/webcamera/yuzawakogen/camera_yuzawakogen.htm http://61.205.233.250/view_login.html (log-in as "guest")

btw, what do you do for a living SKI?

I see it as basically trying to explain what randomness is and isn't. I think Dembski's essential argument is that the diversity of life is statistically unlikely to have been produced by natural selection. dunno how this idea can be proved or disproved though. ultimately, I like to stick to the empirical stuff.

Quote: Originally posted by British Potato Council: Racial mixing seldom brings about the best results BPC are you just talking smack, or do you really believe that?

sava.. anyone.. do you know how to do wind-chill calculations?

more info on the Berthoud Pass slide http://www.telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=13425

sava, are you using this map? if you squint you can pick out a few areas in the bluish -10 range:

top of yari, the current data is more interesting than the photo - getting pretty cold up there 11/15/2005 Tuesday Time, Temp©, Wind Direction, Wind Velocity (m/s) 1:00 -8.3 NW 4.8 2:00 -8.3 NW 2.2 3:00 -8.3 NW 3.0 4:00 -9.7 NW 6.1 5:00 -10.4 NNW 9.1 6:00 -9.9 NW 6.9 7:00 -10.5 NW 8.8 8:00 -10.3 NNW 13.7 http://www.jmbsc.or.jp/yari/index.html

this morning at the Ozei marshes in Gunma, elevation around 1500 meters:

friend snapped this. Sunday Nov 13, top of Tairappyo I think:

is the owner a guy named Mura-san? Somebody in Tokyo told me the guy who runs it is "the mountain man of hakuba" (or something like that)

DumbStick dude what's wrong with plugging places btw? Isn't that what we do everytime we post a link to Calafate, Sakaiya, etc? Stuff like this keeps the forums interesting and fun.

I think Kusatsu is pretty close to the border in Gunma. Looks like a good place to visit someday: http://www.kusatsu-onsen.ne.jp/eng/

great pics, man that fireplace looks inviting. that's where I want to be after a day on the snow. anyone stick any marshmellos in there? looks like a super sweet set-up

I would first think about the different aspects of it: *Inside the Yamanote-train line area or not *Within the 23-ku areas or not *Outlying districts or not *West vs. East, North vs South *JR vs non-JR lines vs subways *How much you wanna spend for rent *How much green you wanna see *Need a parking space or not *Like hills or not etc etc

this thread has it all: ET guns fords sasquatch big-heads redneck drug deals in Ueno..

of course, you know there aren't any more sasquatch in the US because of fellow Americans like these: the shame, the shame..

hmm, nice forecast for next 3-6 days:

tateyama looking good:

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