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Drinking pastis with petanque improves your game. Drinking pastis with curling will make you fall flat on your face.

what was the topic again?

I roll in the snow since occasionally but my hair hasn't turned white, maybe in another 40 years or so.

It about 60km from Nikko. Never seen any wild animals in the snow before. Later that day I also saw a rabbit (not white).

Ok Kamoshika it is. It has 2 little horns and looks sorts of like a very wooly goat. Oze Iwakura was fun. Quite busy for a Thursday (a busload of SDF guys and some alpine and freestyle teams training) but no one off the groomed slopes. Most was roped off but it wasn't difficult to get to the good stuff and the partollers smiled at me when they saw me coming from a roped off area. Even the Gondola line was completely accesible, although I didn't want to go there but ended up skiing it a few times because the bowl leading to the gondola line was the best I could find. There was also s

Ok, just for 3 runs. Yesteday had a great day at White World Oze Iwakura. It's a 3 hour drive from Tokyo and has plenty of powder opportunities that you don't have to share it with anyone, until I saw tracks of someone else and it went straight down. A little further I suddenly saw something moving and there was a mountaingoat. The following 2 runs I saw him crawling through the snow making his way up hill. On the 3 third run he was standing on the top of some rocks and I approached him to make a better picture but then he jumped off the rocks and took off. After that I was al

Quote: Originally posted by quattro: I know a lot of places closer to the Austrian border have both a German name and an Italian name. Has to do with Austria owning parts of Italy before WW1. The people there still speak German as their first language and Italian as their second.

Well, I was expecting a list of all figures (snowmen, clouds etc) used in the weatherforecast and what their meaning is. But Toque explained it to me. Thanks again Toque.

I read the link before but it didn't give the info I was looking for.

thanks, that explains why I didn't see any difference between them.

how does it work with the snowman? What is the difference between yellow/green and blue/red (what means more snow is coming?)

Sorry didn't mean it like that. I love the night shots. And with some cropping you can make something out of the action shots.

the actions shots most are timed really well, but for selling them you probably need something extra. All shots are really centered. This might be good if you want to sell to SkiBeaver but to others? Be aware of the rule of thirds.

Wearing a beacon doesn't have anything to do with a good jacket, but _spud wants recco. That's useless so I said to forget recco and get a beacon instead. If it is a pure weight issue than don't get a beacon and you will be found in late spring. If you wear a recco you will be found by the end of the day. Both scenarios you're gone.

They need some more snow, but I am just happy that I have a good reason to go to Hokkaido before leaving Japan.

avalanche transciever

recco might help if it is a sunny day and the resort has a chopper with the recco machine in it on standby, but in general it is a body finding machine. Wearing a beacon together with your buddies will give you far better odds. In general recco doesn't add anything to your jacket just weight.

hmmm, again nothing but looking forward to Club Med, just 2 weeks to go.

In France they used to start on short skis and every day ski on a longer ski until you reach normal length. Don't think they are still using this method. Japanese ski slalom racers were known to use short skis for technique/balance training. From a strictly learning perspective using a shorter ski for a day doesn't need to be bad.

Yes but I'm still trying to decypher the ads on the back.

They're way past their prime, but the wife is paying so I'll be there.

moral of the story: wintersports are good for your health

I like the European tour A'dam shirt of Creek girl (should have been Rotterdam though)

Usually don't wear mine, but after reading Sock_monkey's comments on tre skiing and seeing Kumapix with one I took mine on the hill last Saturay. It was great because it keeps you head much better warm then an beanie.

wow by that standard I'm already so old that I am past any mid-life crisis. I might get into an end-of-life crisis though.