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Hi gamera, it's not a fixed time but your name should be off the list fairly soon after you have logged off. You'll also notice sometimes that when you first login you don't instantly appear on the list - it takes a short while for you to appear up there. We have no control over the system as such and it's not 100% accurate at showing exactly who is online at any one time, there's some short delay involved - but generally it's not that far off what is happening. Hope that helps!

A new Setting Journals Feature - "Two Years On", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-27.html "Towards the end of June this year the annual rainy season finally came on, and the impact that a sudden downpour has on a parched mountain is quite dramatic. As the water moves downhill, it both gathers momentum and volume, creating streams that erode earth traveled over while picking up sand, rocks etc. in the process. All of this eventually comes crashing down on the asphalt of the fire road leading up the mountain, and the result can be seen i

Maybe (But not in the next few weeks though)

Theres some more from previous years in this section: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-index.html

A new feature - "Yuzawa Statistics 2004/5" Season - has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-88.html "October 23rd, 2004.　 The temperatures were dropping, resorts and hotels (and Snow Japan) were busy preparing for the first snow of the season and looking forward to a good winter season. Then it happened... a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in the Chuetsu region of Niigata to the north of Yuzawa town around Ojiya and Nagaoka city. Within one hour there had been three extremely powerful earthquakes and multiple strong aftershocks. While the towns and

A new Interview - with forum member "gamera" - has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/interviews-gamera.html "As you may well know if you visit these Forums, "gamera" is one of the popular Japanese regular posters over there. But who is this mysterious creature?! We spoke to gamera - whose name is Mr Masaki Bono. In 1989 he decided to quit his banking job in the city and to follow his dream of opening up his own business in a snow village. Here's his story of how he started his new business in Hakuba and tried to change with the times. Over to you,

A new Setting Journals Feature - "A Day in the Life - Epilogue", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-26.html "Have you ever started a project with little idea of either how to do it or how it will pan out? Like life, I found this “A Day in The Life” mini-series to be something that had to be put together over time in ever-changing conditions. A year has passed from the start of this project, and almost 18 months from the day that is the subject of this mini-series. Also like life, although the experience raised more questions than it answ

A new Feature - "Working at Japanese Snow Resorts", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/working-at-japanese-ski-resorts.html "Over the years we have had many people write in to us at Snow Japan asking about working at Japanese resorts - what is available and how to go about finding work. Often we are unable to help out as there really is no one way to get into working at resorts in Japan, and it is often a case of knowing people or being lucky more than anything else. We wanted to get some feedback from some operators in popular snow resort regio

Yes some people think that oo. If we have an issue with someone or something that someone has posted, we will usually email them first and try and get it sorted that way (rather than post things on the forum so everyone sees it).

Come on, how many times has that happened?! You can probably count it on one hand.

Regardless of the "on topic" arguments Furm, perhaps you might refrain from referring to us as a "phuckin website"....

You should see how many hundreds we get each day to our snowjapan addresses, scary amounts - it really is ridiculous!

We're going to un-sticky this thread for now. (Any more vids on their way this time round?)

A new Feature - "Twistlift Reviews", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-87.html "A while back we asked readers if they were interested in trying out a new product called Twistlift. Ben and Hamish replied and soon were trying out the Twistlift on the slopes. Below are their reviews of the product. Many thanks to Ben and Hamish for their co-operation and to Twistlift for providing the goods!" http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-87.html Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not

Well you will have missed out on the votes so far, but if no-one else objects....

You can now vote here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/about/designcomp.html ------------------------------------ More details on the comp can be found here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/9/214.html

You can now vote here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/about/designcomp.html ------------------------------------ More details on the comp can be found here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/9/214.html

Happily, we haven't encountered any real problems. Fingers crossed. As we said there are a lot of links to the Forums (old address) and it will take time to change all of those. We'll be trying to change the links on the more popular pages that bring people to the Forums though today, then work on less popular pages later on. Thanks

We have had to turn off the Private Message functionality on the forums (needed to for what we are doing). PMs will be back though, so please just hold on! Thanks.

A new Setting Journals Feature - "A Day in The Life - 9PM-12 Midnight", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-25.html "It never used to be this way when I was growing up as a skier. My family would drive several hours to the town below the slopes, stay in a cheap hotel, and then the next morning venture up a long and rough unpaved road to the slopes. The process would then be reversed at the end of the day, leaving us all exhausted & cranky. Today the concept of enjoying oneself “on snow” is both more widely accepted and in

Have a good holidays!

You are forgiven.

Good luck with finding that Award Winning Avatar!

....and that one is over 45000 bytes.... !

Even if you are bringing them in from another site, can you please try to keep them 5000 bytes or smaller. Thanks!