tsondaboy

Are you sure he said that? How much did you pay? When I pay money for tuning, I expect the board to be scraped. If some guy ever tells me that I have to do it myself, then I will probably brake the board on his head... Before you start scraping the board, take a close pic of the base and post it here. You might have not understood what he said.

Its in Akihabara map

If you ever come up in Tokyo, I will take you to a really good one.

What constitutes a "proper" kebab. Nationality of the owner, level of dirtiness, cockroach population in the track, number of days the meat was left spinning?

I think there was a kebab place in Echoland last year.

that works for sure!

Taxis run till late for sure. The problem is that there are very few of them and last year that I tried to call for one nothing was available for the next 1 hour.

Originally Posted By: jcpops I saw that welovejapan is providing guided tours at Kagura. By the way, whats welovejapan, I ve never heard about them.

Its from muikas gallery. That area is about 3.5 km from the top lift, about 2 hours hike I would say.

Originally Posted By: jcpops Hi torihada, some brilliant photos there! Were most of the other people you saw up there also with a guide? Also, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of tips did they give you about riding safely off the piste? Even a total newbie has to start somewhere. I have a minimum requirement for a beacon/prob/shovel and beacon search skills for anyone that rides/wanna ride with me. Regardless if I we are planing to hit 40 deg slopes or 20 deg trees. Asking for info before heading out is a really good mentality. A good starting point is Bruce Jamienson's bo

Originally Posted By: jcpops I imagine your team must be pretty desperate for snow to go into terrain like that! Edited for clarity.

I first bought all the gear and hiked with some of the kagura regulars for the first year. I have never hiked without BC gear.

It looks like this Unfortunately, like I said in my first post NO powder at all. We literally ice-skated down the mountain...

Originally Posted By: jcpops Originally Posted By: tsondaboy Good job BD, you and Mike got me ultra stoked for my Hokkaido trip next month! We too did some turns down in Honshu last weekend but I wish I could say it was in 100 cm pow. Hi Tsondaboy, I'm just curious what resort you went to last weekend. Was it Karuizawa? That's the only I know about that's open. Do you have any photos up here? Cheers! No resort runs last weekend, we hiked up the Daisekkei in hakuba. Yeti in Gotenba is also open, we did it on the 3rd.

by the way, thx for the wishes everyone. (and sorry for hijacking the thread)

Do you have any BC gear of your own or you are thinking about a tour so that you can rent all the equipment necessary? Sorry, I ve never taken a guided tour up there.

If you guys wanna hit it again in end of December that I ll be up there, gimme a shout!

I will be going up almost every weekend from now on.

Good job BD, you and Mike got me ultra stoked for my Hokkaido trip next month! We too did some turns down in Honshu last weekend but I wish I could say it was in 100 cm pow.

maybe move it also to the Off Topic - General section.

If you have to ask what a gaper is, then thats probably what you are.

Regardless, me and CB will be probably skiing somewhere when most of you people will be cooking eggs.

Great pics Mike well done!!! Make a TR about it.

I am really happy to see that the only poaching most people know how to do happens in the kitchen. More places left for us to ski CB.

I poached Yetti on Monday, first day of the season for Me King and Loon! Probably poach something @ Hakks this weekend if the weather is good.