spook

cool. all good. anything to avoid foggles

that's an interesting point about the quality of the grooming ryoma.　at a bunch of different japanese resorts i've ridden, the grooming has been shoddy. you don't really expect 4inch ridges to be left in the middle of runs

Originally Posted By: MitchPee Best thing to do though is to keep your lenses by a heater or something blowing hot air or they won't dry out completely ever and there will always be fogging when moisture gets near it and spurs up the already moistened lenses. hey mitch, i'm sure you know way more than i do about goggles (seeing as you live in the snow) but i was always told not to but goggles near heaters, because the heat can melt the glue/seal between the double lenses, and once this happens you can get moisture etc trapped between the layers...? i have some 15 year old bolles.

it's about badly behaved people in japan.. don't matter where the idiots are

asahidake? kurodake?

Originally Posted By: JA So, spook, are you saying that the news people in Oz wouldn't go along for the ride? (so to speak) I'm cynical enough to believe that if someone came with an incredible story like the "cruise control got stuck", had a couple of "witnesses" to back the story, the news here would lap it up without going too deeply into the facts. I heard this morning, however, on the ABC news, that Prius now has a problem with non-functioning brakes. That'd be a major problem for Toyota, huh! sorry JA, i'm not sure what you mean...? all i meant that i heard that story on the news

now that hakuba is also getting a lot more popular with travelling australians, do they have many of the same issues there? i've heard a story or two about an aussie stealing a car in hakuba late at night. drunk, crashed it and passed out. 21 days in the slammer. well deserved i think

that citroen is rad JA! as is the skoda. i've always wanted a citroen 2CV

geez.. sometimes australians overseas are loveable larrikins. other times they're just animals. i'm sure not all of niseko is as bad as the article portrays, but that fact that these elements are there is kinda sad. development is good for the village, but the people is attracts ain't

well, i've always wanted a datsun. just one to thrash around in

i just had to look up benidorm - brits on tour is it? i woulda said bali...

OK, just stumbled across this story on a Sydney surf mag website (Stab Magazine). They like to push buttons, but they also have articles that are usually worth reading, whether you agree with them or not. Their web editor just returned from a holiday in Niseko and penned this piece: http://www.stabmag.com/jed/invasion-day-in-japan/ some highlights: "So bad have the drunken antics of Australians become in a quaint Japanese skiing village, local authorities have appointed a Canadian cage fighter to keep the peace... a night of debauchery perpetrated by travelling Australians in t

ford transit converted campervan. piece of crap it was. bought it for 1100quid, paid 600quid on repairs that did nothing to fix the numerous problems, and sold it a year later for 2000 punds. not a bad result then.

JA - i saw that story on the news in oz. tis true

depends how lnog you have - if it's just for a few days, then there's tons of resorts in nagano and niigata which are easy (and quicker and cheaper) to get to. you can also send you luggage to your snow accommodation by takyubin, to save you lugging it around..

i've taken the ferry from hokkaido to honshu (nagoya vvia tokyo) before. it was cheap, but man, it took a long time. money was more important than time to us back then. it takes aaaaaaaages!

Originally Posted By: seemore I asked the guy at quantas on the phone in regards to my board bag being 28kgs and another nag being 16kgs. He said you should be ok but it will depend on the person on the check in desk on the day. Albeit no problems just had to repack hand luggage into 2 bags as opposed to 1 as it was too heavy. how on earth do you lug 44kgs of gear around...? is that all yours seemore?!

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain This reminds me of surfing manners. If someone hits you and they are clearly at fault they will almost always end up paying for any repairs. Why is that? My guess is that unlike on a ski hill they can't escape so easily and if they want to come back to that spot to surf they'll pay. Of course, it's sometimes difficult to judge who has the right of way in a line up on a crowded beach here in Japan and in those situations you have to resign yourself to the fact that accidents happen. You have to assume some level of responsibilty on a ski hill to ensu

that bloke is incredible. although his tears last year when he lost weren't too good.

i feel sorry for any british sportsman (or woman.. sportsperson..?). they invariably have the expectant weight of the entire nation on their shoulders. like poor old 'tiger' tim henman, or wobblehead paula radcliffe good luck to the bloke though

i was thinking something similar about snowboarding the other day (it applies equally to skiing though). 20 years snowboards were so primitive, and if you look at vids and photos from back in the day, it's almost a completely different sport now. likewise with skating. look at how mental the stuff people are doing now compared to 20 years ago

yeah, waaaay too much of a mission. having a car would be pretty nice. there's a bunch of stuff we'd like to do nearby, but taking public transport tkes ages. tomorrow we're gonna check out the snow monkeys, and it involves a bus, train, then bus just to get there. fingers crossed we enjoy it, because it's about 6 hours of travel there and back just to spend a few hours there. looking at a map i reckon we could drive there in an hour or so. oh well next season... car! oh yeah, BM, can you get your PM's turned on. or email me at lukegerson at yahoo dot com dot au did the tunnel today t

sweet. look forward to seeing some pics. maybe you can take some of thursday's baby for him

is that a real picture...? surely not. that guy is massive. how to the hostesses trolley down the aisles? i wouldn't be worried about how fat that guy is, i'd be stressing about not getting my free booze

deinitely buy them in tokyo. much bigger selection of stores