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Looked like fun guys, glad you had a great last day out Fubuki!!! Speaking of Murodo, wouldn't it be sick if they opened up Tateyama..... like NOW!!! It's spring already, it feels like Tateyama time doesn't it? Kuma -- do you know the people in charge? Let's send them lots of e-mails telling them we want to camp and ski there now

anyone got any 'tips on how to spell' books they want to lend FT?

I flew with Cathay Pacific to New Zealand and the travel agent i booked the flight with told me they would charge me 30,000 yen to take my skis with me.... i had already paid so much for the flight anyway, so was totally pissed and called the Cathay Pacific desk at Narita to check exactly what my baggage allowance was - they then kindly informed me that i could take a ski bag on top of my normal luggage allowance at no extra charge, they said as long as the ski bag didn't weigh more than 25kg, they would only count it as 3kg of my total weight allowance! STOKED! Don't know where my travel ag

PS - there's some other train you can take out of narita for like 2000 yen. and the shinkansen/bus connection to hakuba is smoooth --- about 5-10mins in betweeen, just enough time to carry your ski bag down the bus terminal outside the station in nagano

where you guys getting your prices from? shinkansen tokyo - nagano 7500 bus nagano - hakuba 1400 if you have at least 2 people you can get the shinkansen/bus package and the whole thing costs only 7500 one way!!!! the super azusa is faster?!!!!! i'll race you to tokyo FT!!!!! HA!

Ohh that's where we went skiing last weekend, when AK fell down the waterfall. sj4 - that's the view of happo south faces from 47 (right fubuki?) KUMA ---- just a thought, i'm a skier, can i carry skis on the burton zoom bag? does it have a diagonal ski carry loop or any of that jazz? i suspect not.... perhaps i'll have to get the dakine sequence pack? doing some major net searching on this one now.

that's FT's "i'm drunk" smile.... take some beers up on the hill did ya FT?

yeee i'm sure you can blame the photographer, never used an slr before

Not quite sure if this counts as a TR, but anyway - i took my new Nikon D80 out to shoot around Miasa, Aokiko & Hakuba this afternoon . Not sure at all how to really use it yet, and this is really the first day i've spent any time doing anything with it, but i'm really liking everything about it so far. Here are a few photos from today..... Kashimayari Miasa Shrine in Miasa Aokiko Matsukawa & Mountains I wasn't particulary happy with any of the shots i took at the Matsukawa today --

sweeeet lines dude.... FT where did you buy your glasses, i really want to get some too

kina kina kina kina kina kina kina kina kina kina BAAAAAABY!!!!!

the quebecers and hugh the pornstar packed up their cheese fondue and wine and were going for karamatsu this morning!!!!!! actually i now have physio at 2pm so can't ski the park today, it's too late now - it always closes around 3pm-ish. i'm going to buy skins later today once i've driven to a spot to get some pictures of the kashima twin peaks. kuma thanks baby will check that out

skool's out i think..... anyone for 47 park this afternoon?

CB your PM box is full....

you could get a scooter cb, and rock up to hakuba on it with your skis on the back and we could take photos of you, and post them in the gaper spotting thread lol. duuuuuuuuuuude, get up here - you LOVE skiing don't ya? come on!!!

TIGNES!!!

hej hej juha! nice fotos... enjoy the rest of your trip! great to meet you guys!!!

oeufff maybe i should go back to the mountains in euroland? high elevations, endless terrain, but not much snow this year hmmmm? markie, BCS now has a nikon D80 - invite me on your next trip and i'll take fotos of you & your crew all week long. ps - my preferred ski destinations include russia, iran, greenland and alaska who went on your trip to les trois vallees? not an entire army from hong kong this time?

no umm i didn't i just said i liked my hat lol --- FT was wearing an old bobbly jumper and he calls that "good enough" a fun evening!!!!

oakley wisdoms on SAC right NOW! slow - www.evogear.com have a big ski sale just now - check that out, usually shipping skis from the states costs around $60 - but some brands you can't ship outside of the states.

Quote: Originally posted by Creek Boy: any good quotes from FT tonight EBC? Was he in form like over Xmas with Bushy et al? ha ha ha kind of like that - he did some bizarre dancing sitting down and standing up, and seemed very drunk for someone who had only drunk one or two beers - and he wishes he had a hat like me - though i wish i had as much style as him when it comes to circus tricks lol (ummm you kinda had to be there) errrr i think the classic quotes of the evening probably came from me lol.

yaaaah it was great fun, i've wanted to try boarding for ages... if i stick around in the mountains for long enough, my aim is to ski, board and telemark quite funny being on the hill but being a total beginner, and obviously it's completely different from skiing, a whole different edge control education. the reason we swapped is because we could swap boots, so it was easy.... discovered this the other week when we all went to yanaba and yanick sneaked my boots on. the snow was rubbish on the hill on saturday, so we decided to go for it. yanick tore it up on the skis after 14 years or s

fotos markie fotos

slow - forgot to talk skis when i briefly saw you at the weekend, did you have a good one? have you decided on some skis... or are you waiting until next season, since the chance of pow is fading fast? how did you put that slash into your rossis? buy some ptex girl. had some chai tea and apple pie with the boys after yanick and and i swapped our gear on saturday morning, yuuuum! must get the recipe too! toque - nice one bro, seems it was a good year for you to go back to canada!

yeh will never forget our wine tasting tour of tateyama lol fubuki.... take it easy dude & see you back here sometime! FT - you were on form at dinner tonite lol