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That does have me confused after seeing the length of track I did yesterday and its position - it seemed to be going from the Nagano region towards Nozawa.
I'm sure it will make sense when it's all built and looking pretty
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I only just avoided a bad crash the other day in one of those blizzards. The guy in front - about 10 meters but could not be seen - didn't come out of it as well.... he had to be taken to hospital (broken something or other). Very nearly me.
I'm not going to drive unless its absolutely necessary next time it is like that.
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I was driving near Iiyama today (northern Nagano) and noticed them putting up the but ugly new shinkansen..... those things just look so bad.
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BEST
SKIER
HERE
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I can't imagine wanting to spoil a day on the snow by being drunk. I'll wait until the evening.
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That sounds very much like a famous hotel company I know.......
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I once drank some shampoo when I was totally drunk. It took me a while to notice by which time some had gone down.
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Quite a lot this last season, timing was good.
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Just a disclaimer before I get shouted at.... I'm not from England.
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England has the best supermarkets there is.
I have lived in many countries and food is a big part of what I do (it's my business), and the size, choice, freshness and quality of food in the big supermarkets in England is very hard to beat. I don't know anywhere that beats them anyway.
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I had NO holidays. The good part of that though is I have tomorrow until Thursday off now
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More than 20000 peeps - tell us more! Are they a few big nights out every month?
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This part:
"You should phone a few of the resorts and ask them if they have any courses for teleskiing and go to the ones that do. They generally don't advertise them on thier websites so its best to phone them and ask directly"
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Why don't they generally publicise this then?
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Unicef is the one I generally give to. A friend is working for them so I hear a lot.
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several cms thick. no, I don't want to eat that. Pizza can be really poor here though, not one of the foods that Japan does well generally.
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Peel the apple, wax ain't yummy.
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How old were you when you started gamera?
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No where near as much as I would like - I've been preoccupied with lots of work issues this last winter. I'm hoping to be freer next season
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Blair - where do all the staff go to when the snow disappears (the non-Japanese staff? Doesn't your place shut down for large parts of the green season, if I remember correctly.
Is it just a case of seeya or do you have an arrangement with another seasonal company like some places do? Are many of the winter workers the same every year?
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I tend to find that too - it doesnt sound long but it goes a long way. You'll have plenty of space if you get a fairly decent sized card.
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I hope it's nice and greasy as well
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It's out on DVD tomorrow.
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Ocean11,
Dubious assumptions? I don't think so.
The "hardcore" comment was incidental and not an important part of the point I was making. You can take that comment out of what I wrote and it still stands.
Of course some/many resorts do not provide exactly what you want - but some/many does not equal "all" and I wasn't implying that either. I was just stating that some/many resorts are making efforts, some that can be seen, some that cannot at the moment and might take time to happen. Perhaps you living down there in Shikoku, you don't get much experience of certain resorts I am talking about in Niigata that seem to be having good success with new programs concentrating on 'family'?
I'm sure I said this in my previous post, but I do not know all the specifics and apparently neither does anyone else here.Quote:And if there is an 'environment' that resorts are working in that I don't know about, then could you spell out what it is?But how about these general issues just for possible starters off the top of my head - costs (a really big one, that), local town regulations, government regulations, land issues, staffing issues, etc etc.....
Just a quick example - I know of one resort that would dearly like to open up a new lift and open up an area that has great potential (that I think many people on here would be real happy about!), but they simply cannot because of land issues - it is simply beyond their control, but they are continuing to push for it in the necessary places and have been for literally years. Whether they eventually will be able to do this or not is a ?, but they seem to be giving it their best shot. And I sure want to go if they get the go-ahead in the future - it will be very popular.
I might have missed that. Who are you talking about? And this person 'claims to be reasonably intimate with the situation at Japanese resorts'. But surely that 'situation' will be different at each and every resort? Does he know them all? And even if that person knew one (or a few even) resorts really well, that still doesn't mean that he/she is in any way knows whats going on at many other resorts and the management there. I am involved with some resorts myself, but I don't claim to know more than that. Anything else is just guessing. What I do know is that the management at each resort varies greatly, just like it does in other industries. Some are really competent and some are (very!) not.Quote:There is at least 1 other person on this thread who claims to be reasonably intimate with the situation at Japanese resorts and who appears to think it's dire.And one other interesting thing, Ocean11 - I presume that you are referring to the user SKI when you address someone as YOGURT (?). Why is that? Is that intended to be offensive? I'm sure SKI is not losing any sleep over it, but it does seem very childish.
Anyway, I don't spend hours a day writing essays on internet forums as a rule (!) and try to spend as little time in front of a computer as possible, so I'm off for now. Off to Gifu for 4 days, so see you around.
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I prefer the Molson Light myself
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Ah I see.
I'm surprised (or maybe not) that Myoko didn't get a station.
It will very nicely spoil the Myoko countryside though, hey?