SnowJapan#Andrew

Maybe quite a few reasons. Of course a popular and active forum is a good reason for more people to keep on coming back and join in themselves, and that probably has a lot to do with the continued increase over the last year or so. It seems lots of people suddenly decide to register and start posting after only reading the forum for (literally) years. It would be interesting to know what makes them do that As they do that, all the time we are getting new people coming to the site for the first time as our readership continues to increase rather quickly - poor, tired, Mr Band

Over the last month, some more Places to Stay near popular ski/board resorts have been added to the pages of Snow Japan. Take a look at some of the new additions, as well as the full listing which can be found here. As always, if you do contact any of the Places to Stay, please support us by mentioning SnowJapan.Com. Thank you ====================================== FULL PLACES TO STAY LISTING HERE. ====================================== Recent additions: LA NEIGE HIGASHIKAN : Hakuba, Nagano http://www.snowjapan.com/e/hotel/viewhotel.php?hotid=44 MOMINOKI

BigSausage You are right, in reality actually only a very small % of people who log onto and read the SJ Forums actually post messages here. That is pretty much the 'norm' for online forums, by all accounts. Interestingly, the increase in activity on the forums almost directly reflects the increase in popularity of the site in general. ie. the % of people using the forums who actually join in and post hasn't really altered that much in the last few years (an actual slight increase). The forums have seen a big increase in activity last season and even more this year, reflecting

Alas, no stickers exist, but if one of the SJ Gods shined on us with abundant funds...

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for HAKUBA 47 RESORT This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the popular Hakuba 47 snow resort in the Hakuba valley, Nagano Prefecture. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. Best of luck! Winners from last weeks giveaway and the Club Med holiday will be

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for HAKUBA 47 RESORT This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the popular Hakuba 47 snow resort in the Hakuba valley, Nagano Prefecture. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. Best of luck! Winners from last weeks giveaway and the Club Med holiday will be

It was a bit nervewracking doing an interview on the telephone in Japanese, but it went well I think. Thanks for listening in, joshnii - are you actually in Niigata city then?

Thanks joshnii. I didn't actually know it was going to be in the paper today, and only found out on the way to the office this morning when a local came up and told me to look in the paper! We've done a few interviews with Japanese newspapers and magazines and so hopefully there will be more publicity coming up. Andrew

About the spelling of Hakkoda... We are in the process of changing the spelling of the resort name throughout our site, and most of this work has now been done. There are a few areas remaining which still need to be seen to, and they will be completed soon. We do ask that if you think you find a mistake, or just see something that you feel needs to be changed, then please email us directly at editor@snowjapan.com - we will then look into the issue and see to it if that is needed. Whilst we do check posts on the Forum, sometimes a point can be overlooked. A direct email to us on subject

Yes it is a bit quieter than usual on the Forums during this period - pretty much a pattern that is similar to other years. People are on holiday, out enjoying themselves, out on the slopes, or just no time to post (just reading - still a lot of that going on). You'll most likely see posting levels get back to "normal" (!) and maybe more in the first week of January. In the meantime have a great holidays and all the best for the New Year. SnowJapan.Com

UPDATE 1: UPLOADING PHOTOS When you upload photos now to your member page, if they are too large (over 50KB), you will get a message telling you that one or more of your images are over the size limit. If you get that message, please try to make the images smaller, under 50KB, and try again. For the time being if you are unable to do that yourself we will do it for you if you send your images to us at insider@snowjapan.com 2: LINKING TO MEMBER PAGE PHOTOS Go ahead and link away! Feel free to link to images that are on your or any other member pages on this Forum. (You ca

UPDATE OK we have been doing some development on this issue: 1: UPLOADING PHOTOS When you upload photos now to your member page, if they are too large (over 50KB), you will get a message telling you that one or more of your images are over the size limit. If you get that message, please try to make the images smaller, under 50KB, and try again. For the time being if you are unable to do that yourself we will do it for you if you send your images to us at insider@snowjapan.com 2: LINKING TO MEMBER PAGE PHOTOS Go ahead and link away! Feel free to link to images that are on y

There are still a few more that aren't operating yet (that we know of) - we hope to have them going soon too.

Its a good one, isn't it. It is actually on our pages as well, here: http://www.skijapanguide.com/2002/daily-reports/webcam/nagano/hakubapanorama.html Thanks

Thank you enderzero. As we said, the possible ways our readers can help and support us is: a) spreading the word about the site by telling other people about it (E and J versions of course); and helping out with possible introductions to potential sponsors/advertisers. Anyway, have a good weekend!

Snowbeds can be found here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/hotel/viewhotel.php?hotid=6 Please do mention Snow Japan if you contact them! Thank you

The other thread got closed not because of your question - which we neglected to address, sorry - but because of the weather reporting/Now page accuracy issues. deebee, you seem to have found us out! But alas, Mr Cheeseman has nothing to do with us at all. We do hope though that his comments will turn a bit more "on-topic" over the coming weeks As for revenue for our operation. As you might expect, we are not going to go into the details of our business, but a simple explanation.... Snow Japan is part of a web design company owned and started by the creator of the or

We have made a small modification to the journals section. From now on, if you write a journal in paragraphs, the paragraphs will now appear as you specify them on your members page (ie including a spaces). You can go in and edit any of your previous journals if you need to from your members menu page. Looking forward to reading more journals as more and more people get out onto the hills!

Quote: it`s gotta be pukin it`s guts out in tha hills Maybe in some places, but not here in Yuzawa. Check out the new pictures taken just now on the Yuzawa Now page....

http://www.myoko-kogen.or.jp/winter.html Part open. Gondola and numbe3 lift. You will see their website also says 50cm. Just FYI, the information concerning snow depths that is presented on these pages comes to you, in effect, from the resorts themselves. So hopefully none of them are lying. Unfortunately, we don't have 600 correspondents willing to go out a few times a day with a big measuring stick to measure the snow for us, and then update the information online Have a good weekend.

RESORT REVIEWS: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/voice/review.php In an effort to make the resorts reviews section of the site as useful and informative as possible for everyone, a few changes have been made. From now when you send in a resort review, you will have the chance to enter 'DATE VISITED' and 'SNOW CONDITIONS' on the submit form. If you do write text for these entries, it will appear on the review page for everyone to see in the listing. Now nearly 650 resort reviews are online - we hope that there will be many more added in the coming weeks and months. Check it o

RESORT REVIEWS: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/voice/review.php In an effort to make the resorts reviews section of the site as useful and informative as possible for everyone, a few changes have been made. From now when you send in a resort review, you will have the chance to enter 'DATE VISITED' and 'SNOW CONDITIONS' on the submit form. If you do write text for these entries, it will appear on the review page for everyone to see in the listing. Now nearly 650 resort reviews are online - we hope that there will be many more added in the coming weeks and months. Check it

Here you go...check this link: http://www.skijapanguide.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=000049

You asked for it, and it was a good idea. So we've developed it. From now on, on the NOW! pages and the MEMBER PAGES of Snow Japan, if you click on an image the original sized image in all it's (possible) glory will appear in a popup window. So make the most of it by uploading pics to your member pages! We recommend around a maximum of 500 by 375 pixel size for images and ask that this facility is not abused by uploading huge MB images - keep them down below 100K please, and as small as possible. We will be deleting any unnecessarily large photos. (PS if the image that appears

You asked for it, and it was a good idea. So we've developed it. From now on, on the NOW! pages and the MEMBER PAGES of Snow Japan, if you click on an image the original sized image in all it's (possible) glory will appear in a popup window. So make the most of it by uploading pics to your member pages! We recommend around a maximum of 500 by 375 pixel size for images and ask that this facility is not abused by uploading huge MB images - keep them down below 100K please, and as small as possible. We will be deleting any unnecessarily large photos. (PS if the image that appe