SnowJapan.Com#3
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You are kidding, right?
(It should have been 2 new Smith goggles)
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Sorry it couldn't be more exciting - the lift tickets and things that we have arranged for the season couldn't really be donated to the party. (Next season hopefully get something set up for that). Feel free to use as you wish.
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This week we have a 2 night stay at the Okushiga Kogen Hotel in Shiga Kogen, Nagano Prefecture lined up for the winner.
There will be one winner, who will be able to take their friend and stay 2 nights at the Okushiga Kogen Hotel. Also included is breakfast and lift tickets.
WHAT ARE THE PRIZES?1 winner, who will be able to take a friend and stay for 2 nights at Okushiga Kogen Hotel. Breakfast and lift tickets also included.
The prize are NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the winner can use them).
GIVEAWAY PERIOD?Friday 26th January - Thursday 1st February 2007
HOW DO I ENTER?Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php
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More details about this Giveaway, including conditions and validity, can be found on the Giveaways page (above).
Please note that you need to be logged into SJ Insider to be able to enter the giveaway.
Okushiga Kogen Hotel are also currently offering some special 3 and 4 day package plans. For details of those plans, check this page:
http://www.okushiga-kougen.com/english/
Snow Japan would like to thank Okushiga Kogen Hotel for taking part in this Giveaway.
Good luck to you all!
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This week we have a 2 night stay at the Okushiga Kogen Hotel in Shiga Kogen, Nagano Prefecture lined up for the winner.
There will be one winner, who will be able to take their friend and stay 2 nights at the Okushiga Kogen Hotel. Also included is breakfast and lift tickets.
WHAT ARE THE PRIZES?1 winner, who will be able to take a friend and stay for 2 nights at Okushiga Kogen Hotel. Breakfast and lift tickets also included.
The prize are NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the winner can use them).
GIVEAWAY PERIOD?Friday 26th January - Thursday 1st February 2007
HOW DO I ENTER?Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php
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More details about this Giveaway, including conditions and validity, can be found on the Giveaways page (above).
Please note that you need to be logged into SJ Insider to be able to enter the giveaway.
Okushiga Kogen Hotel are also currently offering some special 3 and 4 day package plans. For details of those plans, check this page:
http://www.okushiga-kougen.com/english/
Snow Japan would like to thank Okushiga Kogen Hotel for taking part in this Giveaway.
Good luck to you all!
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This Giveaway is now closed. Winners will be notified by the end of today, so check your mail if you entered!
Thank you.
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The winners of this draw will be notified by email this evening, when the new giveaway will also be put online.
Thanks for entering!
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This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for the Nozawa Onsen resort in Nagano Prefecture.
There will be 10 winners. Each will receive a one-day lift ticket voucher.
The tickets are valid for any day this season.
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?Friday 29th December - Thursday 4th January 2007
HOW DO I ENTER?Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php
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More details about this Giveaway, including conditions and validity, can be found on the Giveaways page (above).
Please note that you need to be logged into SJ Insider to be able to enter the giveaway.
Many thanks to Nozawa Onsen resort for offering this fantastic prize. More details about Nozawa Onsen can be found here .
Good luck to you all!
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The winner will be notified by email by the end of today.
Thank you!
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This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for the Nozawa Onsen resort in Nagano Prefecture.
There will be 10 winners. Each will receive a one-day lift ticket voucher.
The tickets are valid for any day this season.
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?Friday 29th December - Thursday 4th January 2007
HOW DO I ENTER?Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php
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More details about this Giveaway, including conditions and validity, can be found on the Giveaways page (above).
Please note that you need to be logged into SJ Insider to be able to enter the giveaway.
Many thanks to Nozawa Onsen resort for offering this fantastic prize. More details about Nozawa Onsen can be found here .
Good luck to you all!
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You're right, very sorry about that mistake - we will be more careful about that from now on just to be sure. Thanks for pointing it out... we might let you enter twice in that next one.
All the giveaway from now on are weekly - so it's will be (mostly) Friday to Thursday, then a new one coming online on Friday, etc.
We'll be choosing winners later today and mailing them. There will be another Hakuba one coming in the near future.
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It surely goes without saying that
a) this has got absolutely nothing to do with Snow Japan
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any member details that we have including email addresses do not - under any circumstances whatsoever - get in anyone elses hands apart from our own.It is extremely likely that our domain name has just been inserted in this junk purely at random.
We have today got about 20 of these, each one with a different domain name plugged in there.
If you were posting this for us to repond to, then sending it to us by email is better than posting on the Forums.
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Good timing, we've just put a new article online:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7102.html
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A new feature, "Green Snow - How winter sports affect the environment", has been put online.
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/green-snow-factoids.html
"Global warming is an increase in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere caused by the so-called "greenhouse" effect. Most scientists believe the warming is caused by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas.
Earth's average temperature rose at least 1 degree in the 20th century, according to the World Meteorological Organization. But the rise has accelerated since 1976. Last year tied with 1998 for the warmest on record, and nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred in the past decade.
It's hard to find any scientist who disagrees the Earth's temperatures are getting higher. But global warming's cause is still under debate as well as what effects it will have on different regions of the planet."
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/green-snow-factoids.html
Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not necessarily those of Snow Japan.
Discuss it here...
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All of the Now reports will be updated more regularly as the season approaches and be kicking into daily mode as the snow arrives and the season starts. Hopefully soon!
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That's exactly what it is for, db. It will become a 900 meter run that they open in just over 2 weeks that's about 20 meters (?) wide (and surrounded by grass).Quote:Why would they dump it there so early, unless it was to support a one-off little run along a path of ice surrounded by grass.
It sure isn't natural snow, it comes from those machines they have dotted along the run. The mounds are getting bigger as the days go by. -
Some photos taken this morning of the "snow" being made at Naeba:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/naeba-now.php
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If you can't PM and you have posted more than a few on the Forums, then please let us know about it by sending us an email at editor@snowjapan.com and we will make sure it is turned on for your username. If you don't let us know about a problem, there's nothing we can do about it - we are just an email away.
Unfortunately, this policy (of PMs not being available immediately) is the only way to get around the problem we were experiencing of an increasing number people/machines registering and then instantly beginning to spam other members through PMs.
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Welcome to Snow Japan 06/07!
This season sees by far the biggest update to the Snow Japan website ever. A few completely new sections, a completely revamped section, more daily reports, RSS feeds, mobile site. There's a lot of new stuff to play with. Site traffic for September 06 was 260% what it was in the same period last year, and with all of the new fun content we are expecting it to be an extremely busy season.
Before we go into details, we'd just like to say a sincere thank you to the people who helped us out with ideas, suggestions and testing, particularly over the last 4 or 5 months. We really do appreciate it. Many of the new content ideas initially came from comments that were submitted by readers. We do not make decisions to go ahead with new content based on commercial reasons. Instead, we develop content purely based on what we think Snow Japan readers want to see. So if you have ideas on what you would like to see on Snow Japan in future, lets us know... it might end up being what we do next year.
Anyway. Below are the main updates that have been made to Snow Japan and new content. Click on the links to go to more detailed threads in the News section.
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SNOW JAPAN MAPS:
Brand new 600+ page Maps section to Snow Japan, featuring original maps and over 500 interactive maps:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7027.html
SNOW JAPAN PHOTOS:
Brand new version of Snow Japan Photos - with heaps of new functionality:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7028.html
NEW NOW! DAILY REPORTING:
Three new Now! daily reports for the coming season coming to you from Furano (Hokkaido), Naeba (Niigata) and Minakami (Gunma):
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/7026.html?
GEAR REVIEWS SECTION:
Reader reviews of ski and snowboard gear:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/7023.html
SNOW JAPAN RSS FEEDS:
RSS Feeds of all our daily reporting:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7025.html
SNOW JAPAN MOBILE:
Mobile site so you can read our daily reports from your keitai cell phone:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7024.html
YUZAWA WEBCAMS:
We have installed a webcam looking out from the Snow Japan office as well introducing a video webcam live from Yuzawa Kogen:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/7022.html
SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAYS:
The first Giveaway for the season is now online - a 2 day 3 night holiday for two up at Club Med in Sahoro. Look out for fantastic Giveaways on Snow Japan throughout the season:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php
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PLEASE NOTE:
There will be some more changes coming to the site including:
- a new look Index page for Snow Japan;
- updated resort data for the new season;
- links from resort listings to the relevant new maps in the Snow Japan Maps section;
- more links to the new functionality within the site.
Those things will be coming in the coming weeks. (For now though, we need a bit of a rest!)
If you find any mistakes in the new information, please let us know directly by email. The usual editor@snowjapan.com will get our attention.
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Some of the new functionality is quite complex, meaning that there is a chance of some remaining bugs now that it has gone live and been integrated with the previous data. Over the next few days we will be checking the new systems and fixing any problems that are found. If you find any errors, please let us know by contacting us directly at editor@snowjapan.com. Thank you.
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We hope you enjoy using all the new content and find it to be really useful.
One last thing, if you feel like helping spread the word about Snow Japan we've put together a few things that you might be able to do. Click here to read more . Thank you
Here's to the best snow season ever!
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Update:
We have adjusted the RECENTLY UPLOADED PHOTOS and RECENT RESORT PHOTOS listings on the main Photos page so that, for example, if a person uploads 10 photos then the table is not filled up with just that person listed.... basically the most recent 10 different users and resorts will appear in the list.
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A new feature has been put online. This time we had a talk with popular Forum member Fattwins about his skiing, what brought him to Japan and more...
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/interviews-fattwins.html
"I was raised in Mississauga Ontario. My dad loved hockey, so started to skate at the age of three. I think most of my ski balance, comes from being on skates at such an early age. My parents both love and play sports so it was perfect for me. I started to ski at the ripe old age of 18. My friends were all skiing. I really wanted to join them, but the problem was cost. My parents always helped me pay for sports, but their rule was simple - 'we will only pay for two sports'. I loved hockey and I loved baseball, so I couldn't start skiing until I could work enough to pay for it. I made it to the Toronto ski show in my 18th year and I picked up some K2 5800's. Within the year I was skiing the same runs as most of my friends and loving it...."
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/interviews-fattwins.html
Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not necessarily those of Snow Japan.
Discuss it here...
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People mailing us and presuming we are based in Australia is quite amusing.
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A short while back, we had a bit of a problem that meant we had to shut the Forums down for a short while.
In the process of doing that, it seems that a small number of posts may have gone missing and a new member has reported a problem with their account which has since been fixed.
Things should be back to normal now, but please let us know if you encounter any strangeness and we'll look into it! (Send us a mail at editor@snowjapan.com).
Sorry for the disruption and thanks for your understanding.
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Just replied Fattwins.
Thanks to all the people who mailed us offering to help, we really appreciate it.
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.....then please let us know!
We're looking for some people who are really interested in ski/snowboard gear and would also be interested in helping SJ a bit for 15 minutes or so.
If this interests you, please mail us at editor@snowjapan.com and we'll tell you more.
Many thanks.
SJ
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Actually we have had a few people mail us about that. It seems that the link is causing a few browsers to explode.
Anyway, boardbaka - and everyone else - we'd appreciate it if you could please refrain from just posting a new thread with just a link and no indication of what is on the other end of that link in the thread.
Sent you a PM boardbaka.
Thanks.