jared

Himekayu is it!!

skiingmotion.com is back up so you can study stuff before you try it.

Thats what I mean - people who dont speak japanese (forgners(me)) work in japan teaching japanese people skiing. Its not too dufficult to get around the language barrier.

When I try and use the Post office machines the money comes out of my bank account in NZ not of the visa - (i use the same card for both) It costs me $5NZ which is about 250en so its pretty cheap really - if only there was more money in my bank

People who dont speak japanese work as instructors in japan and teach japanese people skiing - It should be as easy the other way around also ask around as if anyone travels (and learns some english) it is ski instructors. c.f. any NZ or OZ ski resort in our winter

If I ski 3 days a week (I plan of 4ish) for the next 6 months my 5man pass looks pretty good compared to the 30man it would cost for lift tickets. Even if I break my leg 1\3 of the way through the season im still paying about half the 4000en pass price.

Im back - Isawa cho is in Iwate (Tohoku (north)) It was raining, so windy the gondola was moving at a crawl and I could only see about 15 metres for the top half of the mountain, But: I had a fantastic time as it was my first day out with my new skis which I love. The field was next to empty so the main run was completely bump free so seeing was not necessasary.

I was gonna link to skiingmotion.com where you could watch heaps of movies of nise tricks but the site seems to be down - hope it comes back soon. - also im with fattwins on the flair only the one Im thinking of is with tail grab.

When I go anywhere without a season pass for any length of time I'll have won the lottery. It just makes sence to go to the same place all the time to avoid paying outrages lift ticket prices. Besides, Isnt it better when you know where to look for all the good hits, powder bits and (for the want of something that rhymes) hot chicks.

I'm near mizusawa - plenty of people come down here from Morioka to ski, and strangely plenty of people from down here go up past Morioka to ski.

I seen a fine MP3 player the other day in the shape of a cassette tape. to listen to it you could either shove the whole thing into a tape player or plug in some headphones - mp3 players will be better when they have cheaper memory sticks or giant amounts of memory buitl in

I know what your talking about, I too had allot of spare time - but now the resort up the road is open so ill only be reading this forum with breakfast from now on rather that mooching around here all day. see ya gotta go ski (dont be too jelous i think its raining out there)

Markie I have some very disterbing news for you. Closer inspection may reviel that the zebra suit wearer is a man. Every one in the eighties was so ugly that its hard to tell but im pretty sure.

Sebedee, what sort of range would you get? ie how far away from your router can you go before it stops working?

This doest relate directly but on the issue of compensation - I was taking a ski lesson in Niseko and as you do we were kinda weaving down the course. A helmited snowboarder crashed into someone in my class and left after the crash. My student was injured but refused an offer to get the ski patrol and made her own way down the hill. We phoned my boss (not the resort a private ski instructing business) who come and picked her up in his car and took her to hospital as she was complaining of a sore neck. Who pays? (as a side note during the same lesson before the incident I was taken out by a

Jap rap - you lucky thing!! I would be happy to hear something / anything from the 90s even. Although I did hear "danger zone" or whatever the top gun song is called the other day, that must be the most modern song iv heard there. If only I could get them to play eye of the tiger - though there may be too many injuries with every one on the hill psykin up too much and going too hard.

" A coalition of Canadian peace groups today announced their intention to send an international team of volunteer weapons inspectors into the United States later this winter. The coalition, Rooting Out Evil, are recruiting inspectors through their newly launched website, www.rootingoutevil.org. "Our action has been inspired by none other than George W. Bush," said Christy Ferguson, a spokesperson for the group. "The Bush administration has repeatedly declared that the most dangerous rogue nations are those that: 1) have massive stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons;

"Oh, Jared's an instructor, he can teach you" says my wife to yet another person she is trying to convince to come skiing for the first time. I only just got her good enough so that she doesn't have me waiting for her too much!!

Showering, not enough water comes out to keep me warm. The hotter I make it the less water I get, its common to be burning the small spot where the water is going but freezing the rest of me.

A lack of trees (and some might say snow) may also help NZs low death rate.

hot coffie in a can Onsen snow Nabe Curry rise Ramen peaches onageri beer mos burger how come everything that springs to mind is food? - im off to have lunch.

"Oh George, not the livestock!"

correct me if Im wrong but doesnt warm water mean more precipitation ie snow. cos it should be still cold enough even it its a couple of degrees warmer than usual.

I cant really comment as I have only spent any real time at 2 resorts in japan Niseko and Geto. Its too expensive to do anything but get a pass to one field and go there all the time. As for wanting to feel like your in japan rather than Oz - thats odd, I would have thourght the 6 metres of snow on the ground and the fact that everyone isnt wearing their rain coats would have taken care of that.

I just heard a story about a snowboarder that died crashing into a tree at Geto a couple of years back, and also recently read that Niseko didn't have a single fatality last year as if it was an accomplishment and couldn't help but wonder how many people die in the average japanese ski season? At home in NZ the odd climber comes unstuck in the mountains somewhere but I havent heard of any resort deaths that I can remember. Is it a common occourance here of are they just rare events blown up into scary stories to keep you out of the trees?