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I augered in once a few seasons back on a deep pow day and was upside down on my back and quickly panic set in wallowing buried under that pow but luckily I somehow righted myself, if I hadnt I could have quite easily perished too. I can totally see how it could happen (the poor dude suffocating) and release cords I made for my step in bindings were futile because of the awkward position I was in and the deep snow surrounding my board made it difficult to even find them.
Deep pow is dangerous, you often have no solid surface to push against.
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first time to see this thread.
hmmm I have Switch (step in bindings) and drilled some holes (actually the former forumer telleboy drilled them in his "batcave") in the release lever and attached some cord to make a looping handle.
The theory was to make it easier to release, nice theory but in practice it was only helpful to release while stationary on flat ground. While moving there is too much pressure a dynamics going on in the binding mechanism for it to work. Added the fact they jammed with compacted snow and ice up.
If would be a complete miracle if they would both release if I yanked in an emergency.
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if it was so good why did you come in so early CB?? dont be such handachi at get out there and lap it up!
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curious to see what I missing out on up in the Hak today I searched for some Cams as the Tourist association website links are all defunct.
Found this one
http://www10.plala.or.jp/jin_plala/hkklivec-2.jpg
its from Happo-one's website and updats regulary, the view is from Usagidaira IIANM.
Also found this site
http://www.shinshu-online.ne.jp/livecam/hakuba/goryu/
has a most of the Hakuba resorts, some are updated some are not but it's decent enough.
Its a flash based application so you cant image link to it.
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Post and share your opinions on the best "stuff in japan" foods, beer, drinks, whatever.
Here are few of my favourites.
#Chewing Gum
Hands down the best by far is CloretsXP. The others lose their taste in 5 mins flat but not Clorets
# Chocolate
Gianduja for regular strength chocolate
and
Meiji 72 for bitter chocolate
#Beer.
I hate cheap beer and Hopposhu is a blasphemy, nasty stuff.
Asahi Primetime
as the label says...for the best moments in life let yourself go....Amen
#Cell phones
(Not service provider but maker)
Sharp. The best handsets in Japan.
#Kaitenzushi (100yen)
Kappazushi
#fruit juice
POM
#Snack
Bonchi
#Supermarket.
Sundi. Cheap cheap cheap, they make you pay for plastic bags which is brilliant, makes everyone take their own.
#convenience store
Seven Eleven.
#Website (in nihongo)
kakaku.com
# Train comapany
Any one but JR. Kintetsu serve me very well.
# Fast Food
Yoshinoya
# Cinemas
Toho
#sports drink
VAAM
#TV show
Sasuke a.k.a 'Ninja warrior' in the USA.
#Appliance Store
Not that use them much now with internet shopping but locally
Joshin
if I go into the city its also nice to go for a drool in Yodobashi Camera
so what stuff do you like?
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good point daver, but the fact that there are people like those in the video and more than just a few is pretty scary.
you could do that in any country, go to the westside of tracks in any city and find those people, you could certainly find plenty of them in certain parts of NZ
the old boy who wants to make big glass crater out of the middle east craked up though
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this thread has reinforced my philosophy of driving as little as possible in Japan, I ride my bike as much as possible or take the train and when we were a out as a family the good wife almost always drives while I chillax in the shotgun seat.
Driving here does my head in, it really shits my to tears, I am a festering road rage blister ready to pop at times - its best that I drive as little as possible especially when the consequences of even a minor accident could land you in world of shite.
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he probably will if it doesnt snow soon up in the huck
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I have one, its useful for the TV and the video inputs for watching vids to amuse the rugrats on longer trips or watching sumo during bashos. (using a camcorder has the vid player)
The Navi itself is not smart at times, it picks some strange routes, what it thinks is a good way is often not. Try it when driving around areas you know well and it will tell you to take ridiculous paths.
Use it as a back up to your own navigation and intuition skills, don't rely exclusively on it.
Perhaps it also depends on the quality of the CD-ROM hosting the maps that you are using, because that is what the Navi is basing it decisions on; all I know is my map CD-ROM is dodgy.
On my one, it's directions on highways and which lane to be in and which exit to take etc are very confusing.
The LCD creen and Navi sysetem are Sony, the map? not sure I will check it later.
It came with the car, I didnt buy it.
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You using BP's camera there mate?
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dont know but Yahoo Japan auctions is loaded with camera stuff
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cutey, third photo down looks just like his mum!
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Originally Posted By: veronica. the original is a great movie I really like that one. Wouldn't mind seeing it again.
the original is a classic great movie, NHK BS showed all 5 of the original series last month (though only #1 is great).......You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! -
Originally Posted By: me janePoor phonebox, it looks lonely.
lets give it a friend.....
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I am on apocalyptic/virus/mutant streak at the moment.
I watched the remake "I am legend" and was intrigued, then watched the 1971 original and very dated movie "Omega Man" with Chuck Heston and then last night watch '28 Days Later' with Brendan Gleeson and Cillian Murphy.
Omega man is typical Heston... lets see how often I can take my shirt off and poke out my hairy chest on screen, did he used to drive woman wild with his shirtless scenes? it cracks me up.
The last man on Earth idea has always fascinated me since I had to read a novel in school called 'Empty World'
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Here is a better test, how fast can you get when you try something other than the recommended server in your own country?
Big drop in speed for me as I get off the fat pipe and squeeze through the narrow tubes.
travelling 1000's of k's knocks the speed right down.
This was me to Dublin
and New York
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this is about as fast as NZ gets - my sister gets this in Ch-ch with Telstra.
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Originally Posted By: OkemoLoonGreat winter sleeping bag on SAC now!
the Marmot Atom?? eh, actually that's a summer bag mate
Quote:An ideal choice for warm-weather summer camping trips or bike tours, the Marmot Atom Sleeping Bag is so light that you won't even notice it in your pack.
a 1 pound sleeping bag thats like 400grams! that's a winter bag liner, you would be looking at 4x that weight for a genuine winter bag.
40 degree is that weirdo scale fahrenheit not celsius! thats 5 degrees to the normal world.
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Sorry to hear you have been dragged into a car accident fiasco mate, not a nice thing especially in this place with the idiosyncratic way of dealing with such things of this nature.....(had to think of a polite way to say that....
As for the schoolboy who fell out of the door, why not arrest or charge the bus manufacturer Toyota for creating a faulty product; the door should never open while the bus is in motion. If anyone is to blame its Toyota, sue the pants off them, get them up on national TV and make them bow deeply. Its an unfortuneate accident that could have been prevented with a $2 piece of circuitry from Toyota.
The truck driver was minding his business and wham, its a truck not a F1 car you cant just swerve in a heartbeat, poor guy being made the scapegoat, thankfully it wasn't a gaijin driver who hit the kid.....
Next they will charge train drivers who hit people jumping on the tracks
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this is good
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go Japan!
Kingofmyrrh 53Meg up! hot digetty dog, that is smoking!!
You are a torrenters wet dream!
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Computer geek thread! post the speed your get down the "series of tubes".
Location and connection type too.
I am mainly curious as to different speeds of Hikari fibre within Japan. I imagine you guys in Tokyo can get insane speeds.
Use Speedtest.net and post the image link here. Cool.
Location: Nara Japan
connection: NTT Hikari fibre - ISP: Nifty
edit: hmm speedtest's image link is not working
here is the up/down for me.
30478 kb/s down
9426 kb/s up
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not too shabby Ianbc, not too shabby.
What was the recording device?
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Originally Posted By: soubriquetI sleep much better on a cold night, especially with the Human Hot Water Bottle pressed up tight.
that a new name for them, aye Soubs? - nice euphemism
Palcall Tsumagoi gondola death
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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Sad news but this is suspicious: It just doesn't add up. I used to be a Gondola operator in Colorado and had my level 3 ticket which meant I could run the thing alone.
The two Gondolas at the resort I worked at both had about 15 safety switches around the whole thing that would trip if anything was even slightly a miss especially if the door wasn't closed properly - an arm in the door should have tripped that one particular safety switch and immediately halted the gondola and I am sure, well actually I hope the authorities investigate why that didn't happen. I saw limbs in doors tripping the safety several times.
Sounds like the worker who hit the stop probably should have hit the E-stop rather than the regular stop, The E-stop would have halted it instantly inside the gondola terminal and not 10 metres later which left his co-worker dangling 15m in the air.
On most Gondolas there is about 5 sec after the doors close before the Gondola moves to the point where it picks up speed and then another 3-4 secs before the chains or tires get the Gondola up to full speed to re-connect to the haul rope. Thats plenty of time to stop it - someone should be near the controls at all times, whether the ones in the shack or the ones at the loading and unloading points, someone obviously wasn't paying enough attention as the stop should have been hit a lot earlier, someone is going to haunted by that.
too slow to hit the stop and then likely hit the wrong stop and now a dude is dead. That sucks.
also how about the poor perosn who left their glove behind? knowing their trivial minor mistake was the catalsyt for fatal accident? heavy.