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Janus We edited your earlier post - it was just, as a few people have pointed out, blatantly crude and went over the line. Thanks.

Just added some of sunrises photos to the galleries, under the username 'sjparty'.... don't want to make a habit out of putting non-snow photos on that section but as this was being called an sj party it seemed the best way for them to be up there. If anyone else has any party photos, send them to us at the usual address and we'll add them to this "sjparty" gallery. Also - how do we get some of those tshirts!!!?

Yesterday turned out to be a fine day and so we took the camera out and took quite a lot of photos of the northern part of the Shiga Kogen areas - Okushiga, Yakebitaiyama and Ichinose. A great day out there as well... Check them out here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo.php?userid=ShigaKogenNow

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for any of the 7 resorts in HAKUBA VILLAGE in Nagano Prefecture. There will be 10 winners. Each will receive a one-day lift ticket voucher - and that ticket can be used at any one of the 7 resorts in Hakuba village: -Sanosaka -Hakuba Goryu -Hakuba 47 Winter Sports Park -Happo-one -Hakuba Iwatake -Hakuba Minekata -Hakube Highland WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 10 lift tickets - 10 winners, each getting one ticket. The tickets are NONTRANSFERABLE (ie. only the

You get funny looks whatever you do

Thanks for the ideas sent in.... Anyone got any from the Kansai region?

SJ#1 and SJ#4 plan to be there - looking forward to meeting people! I can't (I will be in Hokkaido).

Just a few things concerning our Giveaways. These things seem really obvious, but it seems they are not to some people as these issues have arisen more than a few times: >> please register to our site using a valid email address. If you use an invalid address, we can't contact you! >> please only enter a giveaway if you are fairly sure you can make use of the prize if you do win. >> if you do win and get our "congrats" email, please make sure that you send us your full and complete postal address. (We'll only send the voucher out once, so if the post o

We are planning to put together a "Day Trip Ideas" page to the site. While of course we know of a few ourselves, we need help - and the more feedback and input the better. So...... if you have any good ideas for day trips from both the Tokyo and the Kansai region, please take a moment or two to fill out the form on this page: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/about/day-trip-ideas.html We hope to collect a good selection to make an effective page to help readers in the future. Many thanks for any input.

Yes we have been closely monitoring the increased activity due to the heavy volume of searches done for bettyx pics.

We are able to see that info, yes - we can see which threads each user has visited. (If we really want to!) Don't worry, we don't usually check who is reading what!

That will only appear for a short time, but here is what happened.... Someone registered for the forums and we approved them. They came onto the forums and opened a new thread in Snow Talk with a totally blatant and in your face "ad" for their business. They then left the forums. It is worth adding that both before and after posting their ad, they did not even spend a minute reading any other threads on the forums - so it seems that their visit here was purely to post their ad. So we deleted their account. They were still logged in when we did that and so that i

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for ARAI Mountain & Spa resort in Myoko, 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 9th January - Monday 16th January 2006 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php

As you might expect the people involved always do not think they are correct decisions, but we do and again we seriously do not want to get into doing that much. Anyway.... back to more fun things. I'm off out onto the snow.

Frankly, whether he was out to annoy anyone or not, he succeeded in doing so. This has been said more than a few times before, but we'll say it again... We hardly ever touch any posts on here - you can count the instances on one hand since the season started (with a few fingers left over). It is that few. We hardly think that is heavy-handed. Unfortunately, when something like this happens there is almost always some response - either a totally offensive email to us (which of course really endears us to the poster), or a kickback on the forums and things get all out of hand - and as y

Quote: Is this site always so chockfull of muppets? Very happy to report --- no, it isn't. Quote: if you don't like it you know what you can do. We have done it for them.

Yes - this week is always the quietest week on the forums. Though we're here working away on our database.

>> ENTER HERE This week there will be 3 winners. Each of the three winners will receive 1 one-day all mountain (Niseko) lift pass, be able to join an all day class lesson, and be able to make use of top end demo ski/snowboard hire for the day. WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? 1 one-day all mountain (Niseko) lift pass, class lesson, top end demo ski/snowboard hire for the day. GIVEAWAY PERIOD? Friday 23rd December - Thursday 29th December 2005 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >>

puretele - the link to your photo gallery is actually this' http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo.php?userid=puretele

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for Pine Ridge Resorts Kandatsu 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? Friday 16th December - Thursday 22nd December 2005 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php

Nozawa Now!s entry

Hello. We have not had any problems. Did they upload for you before ok? And where are you trying to upload - member page or photo section? Perhaps you could email us with the details and we can look into it. Thanks

We have also added a link to the application that helps you make your images smaller on the main Photo uploading page: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_gallery_image_uploader.php Hope that helps.

SJ PHOTOS We're really pleased to see quite a lot of people already uploading photos even at this stage in the season. Keep them coming! We would however like to make a few things about the Photos section a little clearer (and we have modified the uploading page to reflect this). Apart from the obvious things (like offensive images, porn, etc), the following are not appropriate for the SJ Photos section: - things that have nothing to do with winter sports and/or Japan; - images that have nothing to do with any specific resort, but have been linked up to a re

>> ENTER HERE This week was have 10 one-day lift tickets for the Ryuoo Ski Park (Kita Shiga Ryuo) resort in Nagano. 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 9th December - Thursday 15th December 2005 HOW DO I ENTER? Go here! >> http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php