eskimobasecamp

i had quite a tame night, by the sounds of things... i'm partied out apparently

pillaging and plundering with the boys sounds interesting... care to tell us more beanie boy??

oooh oooh that looks nice!!! yeh next weekend baby!!!!

Looks like we've got a whole crew for the Yakedake exploration wooooo!

I'll ask Hugh what he's doing... maybe that's when his girlfriend is coming over from Australia. Though, when we mentioned it - he still seemed keen to go regardless. I'll find out. Who's Dan?? Is that your friend who practically learned to ski in the backcountry or something??

my friend is part of hakuba mountain rescue and various other mountain things, probably one of the most experienced alpinists/rockclimbers in japan - they were doing mountain guide exams or something up there... they went up before it opened to ANYONE, skis or no skis - i'll get more details and let you know.

yep that worked - it's a quicktime movie now... let me just edit it a bit - cause it's more than 5 mins long, so i'll take out a few boring shots. fjef - PM me your email address and i'll send it to you!! cheers!

fjef - that sounds awesome - i'm exporting it now - there was no direct export to quicktime, only a folder or application called "movies" on my mac - ehhh i'll see if that works, its doing it now. will let you know!

FT - do you have a 2 person tent aswell? Who else was definitely in?? Hugh???

Ramen sounds good - we can melt snow to cook it in, instead of carrying a ton of water up. Is that possible in terms of the water being safe from snow? Is there a lodge nearby where we are going to camp, like at Tateyama... or just lodges on the hike in?? Add to your list - small first aid kit. Should we take two-way radios?? Would that be necessary??

Thanks slow - glad you had a good weekend girl! That bread looks yum, have to go check out Pan no Yama sometime soon. Did you get out skiing on Sunday? What did you guys do??

off home now, see ya tomorrow princess sas

Sorry yeh i didnt hike for 4 hours - i think we hiked for about 1hr 30 or 2 hours? Maybe it took me 2 hours. I have some absolutely epic pictures of when we broke out of the clouds... just a sea of cloud below us the all the mountains above - unbelievable. Toque - i have a question, is that past Happo ike?? I couldnt work it out in the cloud.

I have some of the line - a ton of the boys in all sorts of poses (looks like some kind of ski movie on my mac slideshow haha... a ski movie advertising their jackets and goggles or something, rather than crazy riding) - and lot of pics of avi debris. When we were riding the line i didnt have my camera out, just wanted to ski. But i do have some looking back up at our lines.

Kuma - it's far and some of it is pretty steep and narrow... and carrying shit too.

Sorry dudes - i'm on front of a different computer right now - my photos are on my mac and need to be reduced and i think the pesky internet people cut me off (uhhh ooops) - but i have made a folder called "happozawa for SJ" and will get them up asap - i'll see FT tonight and sort out the size thing, put them on my memory stick and tomorrow post them on SJ.

Count me in baby! Damn and i thought it was going to be a photo of him... not the dead animal.

I have a pic of FT in an uncompromising position... on a rail yesterday in the park at tsugaike

Yehh thought it was him - too HOT for words!!! Do you have his number?!!!!! Wow, what a line - wonder what line he picked then? Would have loved to have seen that. Extreme or what... and by himself.

FT - did we see this guy at the bottom - sorry the top of happo lifts?? was he ahead of you guys? was it the guy in red with salomon GUNs??

Mmmm this is interesting - i would also like to learn wilderness first aid - this is what i was asking FT about yesterday on the Tsugaike lifts.

wooooooo beanie boy... cough... mr. toque... you need a light sabre, not an ice axe baby - you should battle this guy next time for the line!!! seriously though, this guy was alone?? do you know he DIDNT make one mistake and die?? and WHICH face did he ski???

hey hey come on, who's the crazy guy?? i wanna go skiing with him!!!!

what crazy guy, ski what face??!!!

FT - are my carving skis at your house by the way??