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very impressive, slow!
i've never tallied them up before. i know i haven't been to 50 resorts in japan, but this is the 50th reply to this thread
-Hokkaido-
Teine Highland/Olympia
Sapporo Kokusai
Kiroro
Niseko (does this count as 1 or 5?)
Rutsusu
a staircase railing behind my house
Furano
Asahidake
Hidaka Kokusai
Kamui Ski Links
someplace in Tokachi i can't remember the name of
-Fukui-
Ski Jam (love that name
-Gifu-
Washigatake
Takasu Snow Park
Hyogo-
the indoor place--SNOVA? Cooval?
-Gunma-
Tenjindaira
-Nagano-
Hakuba 47/Goryu
Happo-One
Nozawa Onsen
-Niigata-
Arai
Myoko Kogen (1 or 3?)
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Maiko Korakuen
Gala Yuzawa
Kagura/Mitsumata/Naeba
Pine Ridge Kandatsu
25 for me.
or add 10 more depending on how you count.
it all depends on how you count resorts in japan...is it a mountain you are skiing on or a business you're using?
by number of businesses, japan has the most ski resorts of any country in world. i've heard something close to 700. a case in point is FT's favorite place, Niseko: although it's one mountain, you have to buy 3 lift tickets (their "all-mountain" pass) if you want to ski the whole mt. and hakuba 47 / Goryu are technically different resorts even tough they're on the same mountain.
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Can you see the pictures now? I uploaded the images again...
i don't see it as a vintage item, sb, but i could see it mounted on a wall above a fireplace.
it was a hand-me-down from my brother. he used it for 2 or 3 seasons before giving it to me so i guess it dates from 89? 90?. SC, anyone else got pics of their early equipmnet?
pretty funny to look at for old time's sake. love the fluorescent colors!! still see peeps on the slopes here with the same colored jackets!
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first board, for memory's sake
current board
it's nearly time
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r45- i guess, but you'd be best to check with someone who understands japanese better than me
where in hokkaido r u? i used to live a stone's throw from hidaka. good close night skiing
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In Japanese, マラソーン, maraso-n can mean any kind of race, whereas in English "marathon" almost always refers to a long, long run, 42.195 km
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good review of the basics FT...
getting ready for season
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i just ran 10K in Toda, Saitama last sunday, the day of the women's marathon. a slow 53:49 finish for me but my goal was to run 2 slow, then 1 medium-paced kms and i did it. good warm up for snowboard season!
it's funny saying to people to ran a "maraso-n" and then they go "Wow!" and i have to correct myself, no not "marathon," "maraso-n dessyo." haha
when i was wrestling and kickboxing, we'd run 5k, work out for 2 hours, then hit the wieghts for an hour with 45-second repetitions, then run another 5k... but that was 10 years ago.
so last week's 6 miles was the longest i've run.
how about you, orange?
i don't know much about long-distance training, but i've heard of the 10 percent rule: 1) do not increase your total weekly mileage by more than 10 percent nor 2) increase the distance of your long run by more than 10 percent per week.
Otherwise, you supposedly risk injury.
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definitely
beers are in order for both of you
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gamera i want to buy you a beer for starting this post
and montoya too for putting up the link to the 52-mt. pass. i got a large envelope from nagano snow love club this morning--52 resorts.
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try to contact the Asahidake Visitor's Center. A really down-to-earth guy named Kazu works there and spent a long time in NZ, speaks fluent English.
also, most of the lodges are at the base of the tram at asahidake and have two meals per day. no convenience stores in the area. it's just powder all day
feel free to pm me if you need more details
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sounds like you guys had a blast at the Osaka TGR--i ended up with a hooded sweat shirt and a t-shirt here tokyo
i've got an extra ticket to the A and B Banff Screenings in Tokyo Saturday. if anyone's interested, let me know
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can't miss with niseko, but Toque is right, there's so much more than niseko, esp. in hokkaido
rutsutu isn't too shabby, either
furano is overplayed in my opinion,
but if you want real hokkaido champagne powder, head out to asahidake close to the city of Asahikawa. if you're tight on time, it's bit of a gamble though, b/c the asahidake aerial tram/ropeway doesn't run if the wind gets too strong. when it is open, you have the entire mt. basically to yourselves
kiroro and sapporo kokusai are both closer to sapporo than niseko and get snow that's just as good
can't say i've ridden whistler winter snow, but i do say that hokkaido is up there if not better than snow in colorado, where i lived for 4 years
good luck!
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i used to live drunken stumbling distance from shinsaibashi in osaka...now i live in tokyo.
which place is better? people always say the food is better in osaka, but that there are more oppurtunities (e.g. for work) in tokyo.
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Kansai vs. Kanto
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changed jobs, wanted to see what tokyo is like, be closer to relatives here... t-town is closer to the mts on the trains
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yeah, yama, hope there are some premeries in kansai... i went to one in the fall of 03' at a basement bar across the street from triangle park.
anyway, got a bunch of freebees from championvisions at the white film fest...stickers, a t-shirt, a Wildcats handkerchief/bandana, and about 9 old DVDs (04' and before)--Kevolution, Back in Black, among others
i've never heard of any ski video premeries in Japan, but i don't pay much attention to ski magazines. i'd found the boarding film fest in the Japanese edition of Transworld Snowboarding... if you hear of something, let me know!
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you can buy tickets at patagonia...the number on the website www.banff.jp is only an info line.
get your tickets early. i couldn't go last year b/c they sold out so quickly!
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update:
there were some killer scenes the videos. The director of MDP's "From_ With Love" and Lucas Huffman made a stage appearance before the showing of the video. the ending sequence of that video was sick!! the japanese videos weren't bad either. "24-7" had some good clips and "Tyrant" was all about Japanese rails.
BUT what is up with the tokyo crowd? i've been to other premeries in osaka where i used to live and everybody exploded. the other day, i saw some fools sleeping during the videos... maybe it was that monday and friday was a holiday, maybe it was that the video fest didn't start until 9:30 or maybe it was that it is only SEPTEMBER, but i've seen senior citizens get more excited playing bingo than most of this crowd. i only saw one or two other foreigners there besides some of the pros.
overall, the videos were a teaser for the season, now we just have to wait for the snow...
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FT:
where do you get the Tsugaike Pass? I looked on their website, but there's no winter info on it yet...and it doesn't look like liftken.com offers season passes, just one-day discount tickets.
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Anyone want to go to a first screening/release party for 4 of this year's snowboard videos?
here's a rough translation from http://www.championvisions.com
Shibuya AMUSE CQN, starts 21:30 both nights
9/20 (Tues) "From _, With Love" (Mack Dawg Productions) & "The Big Blind" (Whiteout Films)
9/21 (W) "24-7" (Red Eyes Films) & "TYRANT" (MJ Digital tesurikyokai)
3000 yen for both nights, includes 1 drink.
Seats are limited & tickets go on sale 8/21 by telephone only. Tickets limited to 3 per person.
PM me if you wanna go!
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so sad. i used to live in boulder and A-Basin is still my fav colorado resort. i wonder what time this unfortunate skier was skiing. they usually close the chutes at 1 p.m. or so. RIP and ride carefully
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sounds like Hachimantai is a good place and yes fs/fr makes perfect sense...have yet 2 get there...yeah, i heard their Fuji trip was epic, not b/c it was all ice skiing, but for the sheer craziness of it. Toby has guts! in hokkaido, asahidake is by far my favorite resort, with tons of snow and just one B I G, open field/mountain of snow.
hakuba 47 is great...tons of pow. i've found hokkaido the best powder i've ridden on (lived in colorado 4 four years), but no complaints at all as far as Nagano snow. there was still plenty of it down there last weekend!
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still gotta 5 against step child. NOT popping when U R learning kickers, bumps, or jumps U've made w/ Ur friends on the side of the ski slope is only going to give U something 2 correct later... so U might as well learn it, right?
it just takes a little practice. best of luck, have fun!
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can u b more specific? what's DBD
shimmy
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yeah, that was weird, i could see them at home, but not at work as well.
great, i've learned not to post pictures from blogs or online photo albums on the forums
SJ, is there anything to this?
i just edited the post and put it up through the photo gallery-thanx baked beans