dizzy
-
Content Count
922 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by dizzy
-
-
ran out of time will have to post TR tomorrow
-
ft, how come he/you/they didn't ask someone to look at it first?
as an editor whose exams i help make get taken by 1,600,000 test takers per year, you can't have mistakes on it. i agree with kuma and cb and the general consenus.
tateyama tr of shame up momentarily
-
glad you came slow.
prolly a lot of people there didn't realize what the hazards of bc are either. now you know, good for you.
-
you're prolly right on the money, jane. The CPR courses at the Fire Department cover only the basics--victim has stopped breathing, has no pulse, and/or appears unconscious: what do you do? How? And in what order? They also spend time on how to operate those AED (Automatic Extended Defibrillator) boxes you see everywhere nowadays.
my impression is in japan you need an IV and a bed for three hours as treatment for a common cold, copious amounts of different ($$$) mediciation for the flu, and very necessary and time consuming visits to the dentist to do what could be done in north america in an afternoon. yeah, so why should the layperson be required to know what we in the west consider basic CPR & First Aid.
One case in point I can think of is how the Heimlich Manouver is unheard of here. All those poor people who choke on mochi every year. I heard the common technique here is to lean over the back of a chair and jump up and down so that the highback on the chair pushes into the stomach to dislodge the food. Or something like that.
(Then again, I also heard the American Red Cross now considers "abdominal thrusts" better treatment for choking than the HM.--Dyna, can you confirm this?)
From what I remember of the YMCA and a CPR First Aid course I did at uni, it was very comprehensive and covered burns, child, adolescent, and adult CPR, cuts, fractures/broken bones.
-
You only pay for the materials. Written medical terms are easy to understand in Japanese. If I know the kanji, med. terms make sense:
胸骨- kyoukotsu
胸 - breast
骨 - bone
"sternum"
心拍数 - shinpakusuu
心 - heart
拍 - beat
数 - number
"pulse rate"
That, and 2,600 yen is wallet-friendly
-
they also said 12,000 people applied....
so i don't have my hopes up...
-
i'm no bc expert, serreche, but tateyama was pretty cold at night even at GW w/ EBC and AK. -5 ? at night.
it's always colder sleeping on top of the snow.
-
i've got the Montbell Ultra Light Down Hugger Super Stretch #2, suggested temp. range 15C to -15C, comfort zone down of -4.
http://webshop.montbell.jp/goods/disp.php?product_id=1121726
but i've never been cold in it.
and it packs down tiny for how warm it is.
i'm a regular clothes (long underwear, ski/board pants, base layer) sleeper. bags are rated as if you're sleeping in your underwear.
if u don't wanna spend a lot, u can also buy fleece or silk liner for in combination with a down jacket and hot water water in a bottle inside ur bag or sleeping between two others with down sleeping bags.
-
i'm doing mine at the fire department.
thanks, dyna88. hope u can get enough people interested!!
-
congratulations everyone
u deserve it, kumapix!!
-
The NPO Japan Avalanche Network (JAN) has released the dates for "Avalanche Night," a free, two-hour slide presentation and review of last season.
The guy in charge said they'll be spending a lot of time on the Tateyama slide.
Being a non-profit Japanese entity, the lecture, all questions, etc. it is all in Japanese.
http://nadare-net.jp/2007/10/08_2.html
Tokyo 11.20
Osaka 11.29
Nagano 12.20
among other dates and places
-
here you go
http://www.vill.hakuba.nagano.jp/info/0709/07_08happy7.html
i didn't originally post, but your welcome
kuma, u didn't know? the last couple years, gamera or montoya put up links
stemik, is there a list onine somewhere?
-
good to see and fun to read!! only 6-8 more weeks
-
or maybe i was just realy really lucky
-
I'm not exactry a foreigner
-
Don't know if anyone's posted this yet, but it deserves it's own thread.
Yeti officially opened today! Man-made snow, a whooping 1000-meter slope, Aba Ranger, a Snow Trooper and the Easter Bunny:
Another place in the Kinky Region (CB's territory:) is set to open with man-made snow.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071019-00000027-mai-soci
-
No, Fattwins!!!!! you shouldn't tell him he has zero chance of winning!!!
He seems to a) have a Japanese bank account in Japan,
a Japanese mailing address, c) a Japanese driver's license, gainjin Card, or some other ID, and d) a way to send the info back to Nagano BOT w/in 3 days, if his name is drawn. Never heard of a foreigner winning this anyway.it's not ryan. he already asked about it on facebook.
-
Here's another chime for HAKUBA.
I lived in Colorado for four years if you are coming straight from Whistler, you won't be disappointed with Hakuba. You'll have all the time you want to get to Hakkoda, etc. in Tohoku.
Tanigawa-dake in Gunma is one of Japan's highest-served lifts at 1945 meters. But it's a pain to get to w/o wheels.
Go to Hakuba, drool, and then see the Hakuba mountains in your dreams forever and ever.
-
I've taken First Aid Basics in the states as a teenager, but forgotten everything until last year when I took First Aid Basics + AED through a Fire Department-sponsored clinic at work. I want to brush up my skills, we all need to, so I started looking around for other First Aid clinics in Tokyo.
Course and plans vary with associations, all in Japanese, but in general, it breaks down to:
Basic First Aid courses (about 3 hours)
Basic First Aid + AED courses (about 4 hrs)
Medical First Aid full course + AED (about 8 hrs)
Advanced First Aid (about 8 hrs)
Yamada Taro (John Doe) Associations are expensive:
Medical First Aid full course + AED at this association: 18,000
This association offers just the Basic for 9,500 yen
http://www.jlsa.jp/school.html
The Tokyo Metro Fire Department runs FREE clinics. You only pay for the booklets and register in Japanese.
http://www.teate.jp/k_kousyu/futsu_joukyu.htm
1,400 for Basic or Basic + AED
2,600 for Advanced
Has anyone else done Fire Deparment-sponsored clinics here in Japan?
If anyone knows of first aid clinics / workshops in English, please post!
-
i got the email too
goggles coming up...
-
there are a white "register for this site" box on the left and a bluish "once you've registered at this site, register for the drawing" box on the right. registration screens are different
maybe get someone who reads japanese around you to help.
-
Originally Posted By: dizzyyes, first register. (as in make an ID and password)
Then you have to go and "register for the drawing".
hate you burst your bubble, but how are you going to pay 3K to the nagano board of tourism if you win? they only except (japanese) bank transfers, and the deadline to pay is extremely short--2 or 3 business days from notification. if you have a japanese bank account, then no problem though -
so is my board bag
-
woo-who! let's not buying
so it'll be a few more weeks B4 goggles start rolling out?
TR: Totally Ridiculous
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
Posted
This thread rivals if not overtakes AK’s thread of shame, but for completely different reasons. 11.22-25.2007
My co-worker and I had been planning a trip to Tateyama for the last four weeks. We did beacon practice in Yoyogi Park (his first time using a beacon) and attended “Avalanche Night” by Japan Avalanche Network (JAN), to which Slow came along as well. We learned a lot at JAN.
So Thursday evening at 5:30, work was supposed to finish, but due to a printing deadline, we didn’t leave until 6:45. The tone for the weekend was set when at the car rental place I realized I hadn’t checked w/ him what kind of car he’d rented: one with summer tires and no 4WD.
OK, so we pick up his stuff at his place and are halfway to my place across town when he remembers his jacket. (Socks? Check. Extra socks? Check… Goggles and helmet? Check. I’m not even going to ask if you have your jacket…Hiking poles? Huh? Jacket?!). 90 minutes lost in traffic going back to his place to get it. Whatever, we could always abort the mission and go ski powder in Hakuba, I thought.
I put the hotel’s phone number in the car navigation and it said to go on some odd highway, though I recommend a completely different highway. We end up on some winding narrow mountain road from Nagano to Omachi.
We arrive at a hotel in Omachi I’ve reserved. 7 a.m the next morning, we try to drive from Omachi to Ogisawa in the rental, which is down to one lane due to construction. We obviously get caught the first batch of ice on like a 3-degree incline in the road. I try to push us over the little hill to no avail. Other cars are piling up behind us, so I suggest that he does a 3-point turn into the other lane shut for construction. We let the other cars pass and drive back to Omachi, look for parking, and wait for the next JR bus to Ogisawa.
He’s got his day pack (Burton AK). He’s just bought hiking poles, a beacon, shovel, and probe. He’s got an army duffel bag with two handles and a shoulder strap. Halfway through the alpine route (www.alpine-route.com), I can see he’s already struggling.
We get to Murodo Bus Terminal, and even though it’s a bluebird, I’m not confident in the snowpack. I’d told him it’s either a 10-minute walk and ski in to camp or a 45-minute up and down walk and ski in to camp. I don’t like the way the sun has been beating Tateyama proper all morning (death trap if it slides)—the 10-minute route— and opt for the safer, longer way into camp. Austin Powers is frequently quoted.
on a day like this:
He puts on my spare snowshoes (Atlas 2025) and I get the first use of my MSR Lighting Ascents. We’re both struggling. I'm stoked to use my new MSRs. We get to camp, dig into the snow to make a wind barrier for the tent, pitch it, and by now it’s 3:30. No time for a run. We hike up 200 meters to the lodge for an onsen. We come ski down 30 seconds (WOO-WHO!). There’s an all girls’ camp next to us, one of whom is freezing and huddled up in a sleeping pad and tent fly while her 6 friends are pitching their tent in darkness. We make hot chocolate for ourselves and I give her a cup. We get into our tent and warm sleeping bags. Thank you FT for the sleeping bag. He wouldn’t have made it through the night w/o it.
Saturday morning it’s still sunny but the clouds are rolling in fast. We make hot chocolate and get a thank-you-she’s-OK-now greeting from the girls next door. We head for I can’t remember name of the peak but everyone calls it “Gallery Run” b/c you can be seen from camp by all if you fall down the slope. Too many others are on Raicho-zawa. No one is skiing Raicho Valley proper (prolly due to the Avalanche Night put on the night before by JAN which describes the 4.18.07 slide on Raicho which killed one and injured two).
Fifteen minutes flat jaunt to the slope of Gallery Run and we take a breather. And I could’ve been skiing in Hakuba! Ha! An hour of hiking and wind picks up. I can see lines in Rachio Valley proper; someone must’ve checked that slope and thought it good. We’re on the windward side of Gallery and I want to get into the valley on the leeward side behind it, but there’s a 1.5 meter cornice (hucking over it not an option) or hiking up another 400 meters to top out. Time for Plan B. I check the stability of the slope that’s farther into the windward side and surprisingly do not find weak layers to be worried about. I thought we’d have had to ski down the slope we hiked up (Plan C) which would have been boooooooor-ring. Plan B gives us 60 seconds of fluffy heaven. Gee, I could’ve been in Hakuba this weekend.
Back to the tent and we melt snow for curry-in-the-package and break down camp. We don’t want to be stuck in traffic tomorrow, so we head for Murodo Bus Terminal the way we came. Arriving at the bus terminal in darkness (headlamps on), we rest in the bus terminal lobby and decide to spend the money on a hotel. We’re really roughing it now!
We attended the hotel’s iibento of the night, a four-piece band: two trumpets, two trombones and are the youngest in the room full of guests aged 55 and up. After the concert, peeps from some outdoor shop are there giving away prizes. By lottery number, his number is picked and he wins a brand-new North Face down jacket (35,000 yen). Very surreal.
We take the first alpine route to Ogisawa and are one the road to Tokyo by 11:30.
Three days, 1 line: Pathetic. The only saving grace of the wacky adventure was Austin Powers quotes he loves and jokes about Brokeback Mt. from which toque and ft have a love-hate relationship with so much. Give me all the shame, I can take it. The snowpack was tight; our equipment was working, but the stamina and time was just not there. So take it from me: don’t take people who aren’t ready to hike into the mts. for three days, and if you’re not ready to go, don’t let anyone take you.
camp:
crossing the river:
skied Gallery: