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FINALLY i have some pics online! been working like a dog since i got back from Japan, but it's all settled down now. This is a direct copy-paste from my report on ski.com.au. Videos to come later, & more photos. Temple at Nozawa Onsen One of the many fabulous old onsens A dedicated trend-setter(that's my friend Mr Thunk LOLing in the background) In case you get rost tlying to find the robby... I saw a kamoshika! sweeeet I was really stoked becuase I had been hoping to see one while in Nagano. Unfortunately she scarpered before

yeah the ad is just a big bag of cliches. they need a better agency. does this cheese really appeal to tourists? some of the imagery is pretty, but the lines are awful. pretty amusing how our tourism minister has a huge stiffy over the "controversy". http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/bloo...1701664108.html

this looks like fun " Will Wright talking at the Game Developer's Conference about 'Spore', which looks like it could possibly be the best video game ever. Speaker: Will Wright" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore

neat ad. with chairlifts. http://features.cgsociety.org/cgfilms/cgfilm.php?story_id=3438

still sorting through those. so much editing - its the curse of digital photography... did i tell you we got to ride the skiiers only area! thanks to a very friendly old liftie it actually wasnt as good as it looked, but the pow down the edges on the racecourse was fun.

well, i enticed the lovely ladies into the cave for the benefit of my 2 single mates (pictured) & being a married man, i took this photo then went snowboarding & left them to it... later, the lifties & i noticed steam coming from the cave entrance, i guess they were uhm... making some tea...

yeah i had some. havent had mescaline so i cant say. way more intense than mushrooms. you have to lie down & shut your eyes. it only lasts about 10-20 minutes, & you smoke it. sends you right down the rabbit hole... its very potent stuff. only for experienced psychedelic explorers! hope its ok to talk about this sort of thing on this forum?

on DMT, you meet other intellgent beings existing in other dimensions. its hard to write it off as just the effect of chemicals on your brain - its a totally authentic experience. it's pretty much the most truly psychedelic mindboggling trip you can have - makes LSD or mushrooms seem about as trippy as a bag of smarties. read up on Terrance McKenna - he was a big advocate.

i read here that japan has the fastest maglev too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuo_Shinkansen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR-Maglev it looks awesome

gamera, after the overnight flight from australia, you'd probably be asleep anyway i liked the tunnels - they are so long! btw, sorry i didnt come to visit while in hakuba - it's a hard town to get around in, without a car. i reckon its totally the way to go after a long flight, when you feel like a zombie. you just call them when you exit customs, & they collect your group in a mini-van & away you go! although we were lucky that our group was large enough to fill the bus - for smaller groups, you'd possibly have to wait for other flights until the bus filled, but i t

i'll just link to the threads on ski.com.au. this is a work-in-progress, there are heaps more to come. LPL tour Nozawa & Hakuba feb 2006 Hakuba - Happo One BC tour feb 2006 the best photo uploaded so far... 4 girls we lured into the snowcave "temple" at Happo One

if you are just going there & back, its not worth getting a 7 day pass. checkout the flexi 4-day pass though - it may be cheaper, as it works on the airport train too. you will have no problems finding the shinkansen - plenty of staff at tokyo station speak english, there are english signs everywhere, & the ticket machines have english instructions (although you're better off going to the ticket office, to avoid any error) the shinkansen ride is awesome (i caught it nagano-tokyo last week for the first time) but if you want to do things the easy (but slightly slower) way, use

must be global warming huh the season in nz seems to have shifted to a later start. aus season seems to be starting later too, but not as extremely as nz. canada has had some shockers in recent years. not sure about elsewhere in the world... will be interesting to see how the rest of the J-seasons run this year.

NPM, yeah we have lots, but i'm afraid very little of it looks as spectacular as the niseko & hakkouda stuff from 2 years ago. we scored lots of great pow, but the warmer weather made it a bit heavy & the powder days were fewer. deanoid, once the other lads get back i'll collect up all the media & make you a dvd. next time i really want to checkout Kijimadaira

cool, yeah thats what i thought. im trying to get a mental map of the area in my head, because every time we went for a drive anywhere, we were constantly going "whats the resort over there?" i have tonnes of photos & vids from nozawa & hakuba. will get my report together soon as i can.

ok, so that photo is taken looking to skiiers right from near the comm tower at the top of this photo?

that would be a disaster indeed! we noticed that it looked like the middle of nowhere over that ridge. lovely view though. what's the name of the resort you can see from there?

did you see the signs that say "a disaster!" & "an avalanche!" ? im kicking myself for not taking a snap of those.... hopefully one of my mates did.

i may have won missed out too... i have an old free email i used to use, which has since died. (hey, its worth a try!)

acutally im going to add some lips ontop of that - the double entendre is entirely deliberate Quote: Originally posted by Bushpig: Low Pressure Lover, I finally got your name when I saw your new avatar! Being a dumbarse, I thought it was referring to something else

yeah i've heard some of miss kitten, not the others though, i'll check em out, thanks. are you using electro as short for electo-clash? cos electro to me is old skool, like kraftwerk, herbie hancock, afrika bombatta, although there's a resurgence in electro been going for a while now, but i think of electro-clash as different, more 80s new romantic/synth pop influenced, but with 00s production values. have you seen this site? very comprehensive & quite funny also. he actually give electro-clash (or synthtron) a caning! http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html Q

it's because im coming. it alwways starts puking jsut when i get to japan. i say my prayers to huey-san every night you see & this maps been upgraded. sweet http://snow-forecast.com/maps/japan_dynamical.shtml

can you guys sacrifice some teenage virgins to huey-san for me - only 3 days until we arrive in nozawa, im expecting it to be nut-deep by sunday morning!

LOL i must say i prefer sapporo beer... but asahi aint that bad compared to some of the kangaroo piss they pass off as beer down this way mate you should try this revolting swill from the state where i spent my formative years... Queenslands beer - XXXX

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/01/26/asahis-beer-pouring-robots/ "To win one, contestants must collect 36 seals found on specially marked Asahi beers." anyone found any of the seals yet? i want one of these guys badly... it would be totally sagoi... but i doubt i could drink enough asahi in the 2 weeks i'll be spending in japan this season