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a good dump.... YEEEEEEEAAAAAAA!!! umare kuwatta!

I'm backing ocean and rach - 100% ...starting in the west - nagano area - work your way north... east a bit - then down through to the yuzawa side - you could do a wicked arc - A voyage to be proud of I recon! definately by Car.

Slow, will you still get sleepy at 18:30? I hope not.... it would be hard to as... you prob wont be able to have a beer anywhere near the main dance floor - or smoke a Ciggy(disgusting though it is! - (cigs make me gouchy and tired)) so you should be OK! 18:30... Really! I guess putting a concert on at that time really does seperate the REAL fans from the stragglers...Have a good time all that go..

coming off of the nutty hip at the bottom of the challenge run in Naeba - way to fast and with a bad line, crashing, folding myself in half via a head first back of head-head clanger and having pukey headache syndrome for only 3 runs after!! Survival makes me proud.

Whats the deal? - anyone know whats going on with this boa boot tec? i need 'boot on' conveniencce, its my b'day soon - I'm going to upgrade from my go-sen en loose as hell converse high top stylies to something better... (I read endezero's nov boot review - thanks endo!) does anyone have any complaints about boa? cheers Lx

OK, so where are the super pipes? - I want to ride one... I hear they're good for beg's and advanced..... Apparently there's one near Yuzawa area? BTW, Asagi has 5 lollipops -numbered 1 - 5 at the top of the pipe, you queue by your loli - and when the rotation gets to you you go! - better than the ole skating of the ramps - droping in and snaking people.... etc, etc...

Thank god no... but we had a close cause - a cartoon style crack apearing in front of me - in the direction of the line i was taking - hence the rest of the slope (below the line - riding toe edge regular) dropped away in front of me -pretty scary - and glad we used caution - i.e one at a time accross the potential hazard area - diving from tree zone to tree zone... if we hadnt of used that caution one of us would likely have been buried for sure... - btw this was in the back valley of Tanigawa-dake 2 or 3 years ago - the year before a lady got buried and killed on the long green run at Tanig

Yes Yobo, the snows been on and off - got a good base now - thanks for the heavens sent 2 weeks ago..- not much for the last week - its shocking how quickly the snow starts to disapear if there is no top up and a sunny day... just been the light dusting (on and off) down at the Asagai level (900m) regular for the last week... we usually find a light dusting (1-4cm) at 900m means 5 to 15 or 20cm up the top of kags. no dumpings on the forecast for this weekend - but looking at the laws of averages(and not at the satelite picture) I'd guess the area'd be in for a good dump next week, I know I

When? the next time it dumps - or the time after, or the time after that......- or whenever.....

I'm looking for others that can hold their own in the back country - Naeba-Kagura area... Likes drop offs, wind lips, ridge jumps and knarly, knarly runs and be scared, and totally aware of Avvy's.. pref with avvy knowledge-training... Am I asking for too much? L.

Powder Possee - Live it up! OK, so the beacon thread/topic was good, i got some good info from that.(thanx all!).. how about the rest of the gear...?? Shovel, Probe, Beacon.....Combi kit? - ie - lightweight backpack-shovel-probe kit - any recommendations on whats best? If anyone thinks they got the best kit then can they list it for us? Talking shovels - I get from some that plastic is inaffective (time consuming) & from others that metal is to bulky....who's got the best shovel? Are there any other emergency tools/gadgets that you can use in case you take a dive in a

Nope .... Its going to be Asagai for me..... I'm going to be at Snodeck..... check it out.