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nissan x-trail 2008 nippon open is at bandai this season

Originally Posted By: montoya looks like fun montoya, nice photos

i think i recognise the dude in the pic, i think he was in a boy band or something...

if you buy the bag, does the dude in the green jacket come for free?

Originally Posted By: Kumapix Here's my new Noboard!! dude is that a handbag?

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver are u scottish EBC? If not, why do tell are you in Scotland? yep yep, i'm scottish

i second that about the pound, the yen is really weak against the pound. http://www.currencyuk.co.uk/currency-con...rter_bottom.y=8 in freezin dark scotland for another week, then back to the north alps

nope, just met this guy on a course i did last weekend.

"One agent says he will book more people into Niseko this season than the whole of Canada." Actually i think this is an interesting point. The Aussie tourists are coming to Japan instead Canada, for their ski holidays. I met one Canadian lodge owner last weekend, and as soon as I told him I lived in a ski resort in Japan, he brought up this point..... many Canadian ski resorts (all the businesses, lodge owners etc, that are incorporated into that industry) are losing business as Australians fly to Hokkaido and Honshu in search of snow, instead of Canada. If you consider the increasing

yeh, i know, i didn't mean literally a few years... i expect it to last a long time. made use of it this weekend in the lakes.

thanks uhhh well i'll think about it in a few years when this one is done (bought it last winter). and yep the rest of my gear is ultra light thanks. and it all helps. i'm a chick, you are probably stronger than me, a bit of extra weight would make a difference to me, i know this from experience. my bag is super super warm thanks, graded -18C, 800 fill down, it certainly ain't skimpy, it's awesome. certainly doesn't feel like 'ultra light sleeping' to me. it's exactly perfect for my purpose and that's why i chose it. i'm not bivying, but if i wanted something waterproof i'd take a cover

scotland just now. back in j land very very soon. when does your christmas hokkaido trip commence?!

seeeeeeeeee ya soon mate!

haha, that all depends how shit you are at lugging gear around mountains... the super light thing was an important factor for me, and i was stoked when i hiked out of tateyama this year with all my gear in good time. the year before that i had heavier stuff, and made AK carry my stuff haha. no need to do that anymore. sorry AK, i know you love it.

Yeh I would probably agree with that, North Face isn't the best stuff out there - I think they charge a lot of money and don't make stuff as good as they should for that $$$$. I don't think i'd buy a North Face bag, after trying and testing one.... doesn't really compare to the Mountain Hardwear one, which although expensive, I would fully reccommend as a kick ass super light winter bag. Yep, looking forward to the weekend, hope it doesn't rain. Good luck finding a nice bag. The Montbell Downhugger is also really good.

yo sheepshot, you back over this winter???! how's it going mate? forecast is looking like pow. get over here.

Originally Posted By: SerreChe Who was the worst snorer of the 3? :-) haha, you mean who was the worst farter? safety. i started off in one tent, the boys in another... after the first night (of me being cold and the boys being wet) we opted for an EBC sandwich. it was fun. i had a north face bag, maybe graded -12 or -15 i think, borrowed from a mate on that GW trip with AK and dizz. now i own a mountain hardwear phantom 0 (-18). it's super expensive, but super light and i've never ever been cold in it. going to make use of it this weekend, in the freezing lake district.

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another awesome day out riding, another 18km of fun. glentress kicks some serious ass, i found it much more technical than mabie... really had to pick lines and commit. mabie seemed more x-country, up and down, up and down. glentress was a big climb to the top, then super fun downhilling the whole way to the bottom, with lots of drop offs, berms, technical rocky sections, table jumps. the HUB was awesome too. for glentress

photo stop pit stop dude bob & me bob puncture!

climb done, time to ride trail another nice view

so i went to glentress to check out the awesome brownies and flapjacks (actually i had caramel shortbread mmm) at the weekend, and here's what happened... danny & bob nice view on the climb danny & bob on the fire road looking back down to the fire road climbing

thought so... yeh, but worth a mention incase, it was fun last year.

it's a world away from europe, in so many ways... but that's why you are checking out japan right? for the whole experience? dude listen, i live in hakuba, the nightlife is awesome. usually on the weekend there are several parties going on in different locations across town with different djs (you'll see flyers around town), it's more than possible to party until 7am and there's also plenty of bars. (to name a few - tracks, 902, master braster, rockbridge, q' tips, mominoki, sauce, mangetsudo, naughtys in tsugaike, kokusai lodge, the whitehorse...) during the week, the bars are

Originally Posted By: IAN14 I want to get some Scott Punisher ski's. Not sure l will find them in Tokyo if you know you really want those ones, why don't you search and buy them online? surely that's the cheapest option?