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Thanks will look forward to it.

Yes, we want to see Bushpig pics!

Thank you. We thought it was a cause for celebration, and we have recently being doing a lot of things with overseas newpapers and tv and the like - so we thought it would be good to put something like this together on the site If anyone has some photos that they want to send us for that gallery, please feel free to.....

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-snowy-japan.html We thought we'd celebrate the record snowfall levels we have had this season with a gallery of interesting photos showing just how much snow falls in the snowy regions of Japan. Take a look: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-snowy-japan.html

The south part of Gala Yuzawa always opens later than the other parts - mainly because it is steep and needs more maintenance. It was open for a short time earlier in the season (I think!), but they closed it once more when the heavy snows after new year arrived and dumped more snow on the area....... the reason is there is a huge amount of snow there and a high risk of avalanches. They want to open it up asap but it might take more time. With that part closed, the link to Yuzawa Kogen is of course cut off (as the ropeway from Yuzawa Kogen goes to the bottom of the south part of G

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We have seen the last of him on these forums.

Thanks for pointing that out Mudguts, we hadn't noticed. But we have now.

New Photo contest using the new photos section. Info here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/6355.html

SJ PHOTO CONTEST Get your cameras out – it’s time for a fun Photo Contest. There are some prizes involved (see below) but we hope people will be taking their cameras out anyway and getting some great pics from the Japanese slopes this winter. OK, here’s how it works. There will be 4 categories: 1) “Best Action Photo” 2) “Best Scenery Photo” 3) “Best Set of Photos” (10 or more at the same resort on the same day) 4) “Best Crazy Photo” How to Enter: All photos (taken in Japan) that are uploaded to the SJ Photos section (ie. here ) will automatically be entered

SJ PHOTO CONTEST Get your cameras out – it’s time for a fun Photo Contest. There are some prizes involved (see below) but we hope people will be taking their cameras out anyway and getting some great pics from the Japanese slopes this winter. OK, here’s how it works. There will be 4 categories: 1) “Best Action Photo” 2) “Best Scenery Photo” 3) “Best Set of Photos” (10 or more at the same resort on the same day) 4) “Best Crazy Photo” How to Enter: All photos (taken in Japan) that are uploaded to the SJ Photos section (ie. here ) will automatically be entered

With the crazy amounts of snow that we have at the moment we are thinking of putting together a "Crazy Snow" Gallery on the site. We do have some good photos ourselves, and know that people have uploaded some good ones to their online galleries. We would like people to send any of their original (high quality) photos to us here at editor@snowjapan.com. What are we looking for? Anything that shows just how much snow we have got here in Japan - walls of snow, mountains of snow, snow on cars, people trying to move and clear up the snow, etc. We'll choose the most impressive ph

A new feature - "Winter Work in Hakuba (Interview with bettyx)" - has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-89.html "We spoke with Forum reader 'bettyx' about her experiences of working the winter season in Hakuba. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? In 2004, I graduated with a Masters’ degree from the University of Melbourne, after an undergraduate degree majoring in Japanese and English. When I was 18, I spent about three months traveling around Japan, and after seeing temples, shrines, volcanoes, monkeys and every type of onsen, I deci

We have until now only heard good things about the company. Anyway we contacted NAC to let them know about this and talk it over with them - expect to see a post from the them on here soon, after which the thread will be closed.

We might do something like that too (well, 'best' not 'most') - still putting the ideas together.

Glad you enjoyed it Maysun. And yes we also like to see all those pics of the resorts - nice ones! [We are currently putting a few prizes together that we (plan to) give out to the best "set of photos from a resort" posted on the site. More on that later...]

Yes it does me jane. This year they are trying to promote "Mt Naeba" - which they want people to think includes "Naeba" and "Kagura" - with the Tashiro and Mitsumata resorts now just known as areas within Kagura. (That may well be what we though before, but anyhow that's how they want it to be known). Have a good time!

data, there is no need to be sarcastic - in the few posts you have made you seem to be almost trying to annoy us. Please don't.

You're right, didn't like that.

Yes quite a few things happening in Yuzawa as resorts are struggling to cope with the mass of snow. Here's what we know early on http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now.php

Hi SerreChe You do get an email to your registered mail account to inform you, but it won't be possible for us to change that so you get a mail to come through here on the forums as a PM unfortunately (different systems....). Thanks

Even better, tell him lpl and sj sent you http://www.snowjapan.com/e/hotel/viewhotel.php?hotid=76

Nowhere near that for me, but a fair bit. Less these last few since I've been involved in this site though. Ironic, isn't it. I'll be disappointed if I don't get more than 30 full days in this season though.

That is basically a day and a halfs worth of 'constant dump' yes. Just near Yuzawa station.

It's not a competition so I'm just happy we all seem to be getting lots of snow. Yuzawa ain't doing so bad though... this is just outside the station 10 minutes ago: