joshnii

Decent view, all the same. Better than nowt, for sure!

It's not really as if he is talking off-topic trivial stuff -- it's just padding and skirting round 'the point'. He just never seems to get there, almost as if he is trying to hide 'the point', though I'm sure he isn't. He just cannot talk clearly. It makes for such an awkward conversation. My colleagues say the same, though they are probably much better at getting the message as they are used to him and speaking the same language!

There's this guy at work and he's one of these people who simply uses too many words - without ever getting to the point. I'm sure the point is in there somewhere, but it's totally drowned out by masses of other vague fluffing. Infuriating it is, I find myself constantly asking him for clarification - after which he comes back with another barrage of un-necessary words. Just had one more of those exchanges now.

Rain in Niigata this morning. Not too cold.

Voted!

"The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain. This is a Vimeo Plus feature" "Plus" indeed!

Tried mine on last night as well. Oh dear. Bit tight.

Worked straight off for me. Great idea, still playing around with it but found some unusual results. I had never heard of that spring ski place with the maximin elevation. Some of the verticals are surprising too.

Woke me up too that....

Ooooo Big Will you have the same problem as me - YOUR PANTS MUST HAVE SHRUNK!!!! Mine definately have and anyway they were last seasons so I am buying some new ones for this year. I have that problem too.

2830m the highest elevation of skijo?

Very exciting

Exciting!

He looks like one of my good Japanese frineds too, spitting image!

Out of interest, for you guys living way out of snow country --- do you actually own snow tyres? I suppose it will depend on just how much you drive up to snowy places... interested to know what that 'threshold' is

Near where I live to Marunuma Kogen. 190km Hmmmm bit far really. Now if I were muika, would be much more do-able. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/route-finder/japan-resort-directions-large.php?addresses=Sanjo%2C%20Niigata%20Prefecture%2C%20JapanANDMarunuma%20Kogen(resort%3D15)&avoidHighways=false&avoidTolls=false&travelMode=DRIVING Great fun this new tool!

Reports, guys, reports! Another few weeks at least for us down these parts so we need to hear and see. Okey dokey?

How do you fancy this bikertom? http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/19986-tanigawa-tenjindaira-gunma-16th-february-2011/

Make sure you do check out Hakkaisan for moguls if you like them. You'll be fed up of them by the time you leave. Good thing is though that you can enjoy that place even if you don't like them as there are alternative routes.

More heavy rain this morning

I was meaning the tv ads actually... I don't suppose they would put them on until you can actually use the service.

Haven't heard much of JR Ski ski yet this year. Perhaps they crank that up in December?

"The Ice Palace in the film was inspired by the real-life Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden."

what was that pierce brosnan one where they were in some ice world? >>> Die Another Day. The ice hotel in itself wasn't particularly bad (actually a similar thing exists) the worst part was the invisible car.