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SKI

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    There's good snow available ... it's unusual, but it's good ... but the customers don't realise it ... and the resorts aren't telling them it ... and all the customers will go in a big bunch later on ... and the snow will perhaps be brilliant or maybe passable, who knows?

    BTW, SKI, it's not 'any number of reasons' that people don't go, it's conditioning and lack of information. That's about it
    :rolleyes:

    In some cases lack of info, maybe. But in many cases just like myself, others posting here and the majority people who just enjoy skiing or boarding a few times a year - that has nothing to do with it.

    Do you not comprehend that many people would not go now even if everywhere were open with more snow than there actually is now?
  2. Like I said, if you go now - fine, please enjoy it! Hope you have a great time.

     

    Conditions may be excellent at 47, OK, I will have to take your word on that, but what about the other 500+ resorts in the country?

     

    And I think the other main point of this post was the discussion as to whether millions of people would be on the hills if places were open. But it seems that even if there is wonderful snow, a majority of people will STILL not go out for any number of reasons.

     

    That's all! Enjoy it!

  3. It seems to me that the majority of people generally would not go skiing or snowboarding now even if they knew places were open. Certainlty that not enough people would go to justify it for resorts that were able to open.

     

    The people posting hundreds (and even thousands! eek.gif ) of messages on this forum are by definition the ski/board-kichigai people that the Japanese posters are talking about in previous posts. They aren't the "average" skier or snowboarder, who wants to generally hit the slopes in the winter season on their (usually planned) holiday - when there's lots of nice snow, everywhere is open, etc etc.

     

    The heavy-posting people here are surely in the minority who are desperate to hit the hills at the earliest opportunity.

     

    I'm also a little confused about the issue of there being an abundance of snow right now. It seems to me that there isn't. From the way some people are talking, you'd think there were meters of powder lying around at every resort. Hakuba does seem to have some snow, but I'm sure it's not amazing and of an incredible depth - especially after the torrential rains of the last day or two.

     

    And from other reports it seems that there is no real snow depth and that hardly anywhere at all is open, and if they are it is limited. Where are all these places that have so much snow they "should" be open?

     

    Anyway, I myself am going to wait until the season gets underway proper for my first time.

     

    For those of you going out earlier - I really do hope that you enjoy it and have a great time (and hope you're not disappointed at all).

     

    For those waiting a bit longer like me - well, we'll just wait a bit more until the conditions are ones that we're happy with.... ;\)

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