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If anyone does anything about it, give us a mention will you

Oh yes. We have already been working on it for over two months now, and there's probably another two months or so to go. There is lots of new stuff coming up - probably the biggest yet for 1 season, and the most complex yet from a programming/development point of view. Hopefully it will all be worth it. A lot of work yet to be done though. Sorry, can't say more than that. Enjoy summer!

Later this morning...

Good to hear, thanks. All things are we think now back to normal - if anyone is experiencing some strangeness, please mail us at the usual editor@ address. Thanks.

Actually, the photo thing has now been fixed up now - please do give it another try, you should find it to be working ok now. There are a few other things that are still not as they should be, but we should be back to normal within a couple of hours. Thanks again.

Sorry about that. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, will post when things are ok.

At the moment we're really busy working on new stuff for SJ for next season. That's the good news, but the bad news is that in the process of doing this we are today experiencing a few technical problems with current functionality (actually permissions on uploading photos and forum related stuff) and so you may experience a few problems if you try to upload photos etc. Sorry for any problems you might experience. We're working to fix this up asap and will let you know soon. Thanks

Quote: look at the numbers for Yuzawa that SJ put on here occasionally We're preparing another one of those actually at the moment. Quick fact for now..... Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma-shi (Shiozawa/Muikamachi) down 14% in total from last year.

Yes the southern part of the resort - Shibutoge / Yokoteyama / Kumanoyu all connected but separated from the rest of the areas. There's a bus linking them up and they use the same ticket for the main season, but you've can't ride the snow between them.

While my more technical colleagues were sat in front of pcs, I was lucky enough to take a bit of time out in Shiga Kogen. I took a lot of photos of the area and resorts while I was there and uploaded a lot. Part of Yokoteyama and Shibutoge at the top were still open - hardly anyone around though. Here's a few pics, more can be found here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo.php?userid=ShigaKogenNow

Hi there 2 new vids have been put online - one from Captain Stag at Blackcomb, and the other of Rag-Doll on Mt Fuji. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-vids.html

Hi We have a few lift tickets to the following resorts available to send out to our readers. The tickets are valid until the end of the seasons at the resorts. GALA YUZAWA, Yuzawa, Niigata KANDATSU, Yuzawa, Niigata HAKUBA 47 / GORYU, Hakuba, Nagano If you want one, please send an email to us at editor@snowjapan.com with your name and postal address and the name of one of those resorts listed above. We will keep this open until 7pm tonight, when we will choose the lucky winners at random and the winners notified by email. Please only enter if you are sur

Emails have been sent to the winners. Check your mail!

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets NOZAWA ONSEN in Nagano Prefecture. There will be 10 winners - each winner will receive a one-day lift ticket voucher. WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 10 lift tickets - 10 winners, each getting one ticket. The tickets are NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the winner can use them). GIVEAWAY PERIOD? Sunday 12th March - Sunday 19th March 2006 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >>

>> ENTER HERE This week one lucky person will win a night stay at Appi Kogen Rocky Inn in Iwate Prefecture (including meals and an 8-hour ticket for Appi Kogen). WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 10 lift tickets - 10 winners, each getting one ticket. The prize is NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the winner can use it). GIVEAWAY PERIOD? Friday 17th February - Thursday 23rd February 2006 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >>

2 more vid clips have been added to the Vid Gallery: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-vids.html

Some info here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/spotlight/hakuba-village.html

Sorry, you weren't on the list this time. The tickets have been sent out today to the people we have heard back from so far.

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for GALA Yuzawa resort in Yuzawa, Niigata. WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 10 lift tickets - 10 winners, each getting one ticket. The tickets are NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the winner can use them). GIVEAWAY PERIOD? Monday 2nd January - Sunday 8th January 2006 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php

Hi soubriquet We'll have a look at that tomorrow. Thanks

You're welcome. We want people to upload lots of pics of course.... we just want to keep the library of photos up there relevant. We think that in the future the SJ Photos section will be all the better for it! Thanks.

Hi farquah, it's really interesting to hear about it all! About your photos..... like we said on the uploading page, we really want to keep our Photos section to be ski/board related. As such we have taken the photos out of your Gallery and - because we like you, and this time only - have uploaded the photos to a different location on our server and have linked them into your thread above so they don't disappear. Hope you don't mind. To everyone - please keep photos uploaded to our Photo section ski/board/Japan snow related. Many thanks!

Bushpig - you should be able to send PMs now.... just checked and the settings are "on" for you. Let us know if you have any problems. nicole - yes you need to post a bit before you can use PMs (check out the "First time poster" thread in Snow Talk) Thanks!

This from todays Niigata newspaper. If anyone has any more info (or if there are any mistakes here) please do let us know. ------- Theres a small resort in Niigata city called Charmont Hiuchi, near Itoigawa. It's owned 50% by Itoigawa city and well known as being a good place to find powder and ride off course. Apparently until now skiers/boarders have been ducking ropes and searching for powder (as they do) but the resort has not been not so strict about it all and pretty much let it happen. But this year Itoigawa city apparently wanted to get much stricter about that

Thought we'd share (it's not from this season)