YellowSnow

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That is a great thing about Japan, and I guess a reason why nomikai's are so cheap. In a big group girls may only drink one drink, and guys about 5. So Nomikai places can keep the cost around 1000 for 2 hours. Get a few gaijin guys in there and you drink much more than the price. Its all good. If girls are sitting in the corner not drinking and telling themselves how "pure" they are, I am going to drink harder, knowing they are paying for the experience. Edited to add: They even have the pleasure of pouring out my beer for me. (not that I am a beer drinker) Japan is the best.

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rronnie seems the place is connected to a bar. Japan has a heavy drinking culture, if you dont now you should consider taking it up. I dont think I could make it on the bus with out some, because everybody will be drinking. You can buy 2-3 liter cans on beer from the konbini. Because of drink more born again christians leave their religion in Japan than they can recruit.

What a people doing for christmas day around here? Its a work day. But I might take it off for snowboarding.(I grew up as a ####ing Jehovahs Witness. so no holidays as a child) I can use the time for other sports.

I have 6, but I want it back down to 2, because I want to hit the mountain some weekends.

I have been skiing snowboarding in Japan for 3 years. Yes the biggest boor is 30cm but the board will be too narrow and you wont be able to turn. btw size 12 to 13 is 30.5 cm to 31.5. As with rollerblades it is nessesary to have a small bit of room in your boor or you will cause yourself an injury(even if it is small) Size 31 can be had easily for skiing. The largest I have seen for snowblades is 29.5 Unfortunatly for tall guys to only real option is going out and buying gear. (or getting a tall friend to lend it to you)

I am glad I dont have the crack cocaine habit that is called "music". Do you actualy buy Q? If you do then you are justifying their diatripe. If you really must have your fix of crack just read it in the shop.

It really depends on the price. If you can take the shinkansen it will be a bit more expensive but you can travel to some good mountains in an hour.

Not been to either. But how much of a beginner are you? Both thoes resorts have around a 40% slope and more than average number of difficult slopes. + a lot of powder. How many times have you skied?

What's the trend at ski slopes this season? Parker Jackets. soubriquet> doesnt the lining get itchy?

Markie I am not the kind of person that usualy picks up on spelling mistakes but. "if you don't mind *sleeping* on a bus." You spelt *drinking* wrong.

Thanks all good tips! This year I have gone all digital. If not I would just slip some velia in my mamiya. I will look into a circular polarizer. Yeah 100iso is good. But cant beat lower iso films. Ianbc you go as fast as 1/1000s? For sport or scenery? I guess I was always on the slow side prefering long exposures. I might try a night transition 60min exposure the next mountain I am up.

Question for this thread. Ignoring the temp adjustment for snowphotography. What is the best tip for maintaining a strong blue sky.( even if slightly hazy) Stopping up or down? What is a good aperture.( for still photography. The normal optimal point is the middle aperture of the lens.) Do you like a longer or shorter shot? Any good filters? Incidently I am selling a 100-300 and 24-75 sigma lenses for a canon eos(20d 30d kiss etc) body.

Got to agree with Rocky here TC are the worst thing to bring to Japan. Because Japanese banks are not to fond of foreigners just using signatures, the can and will get you to resign the slip exactly the same as it is in your password. Could take 10 to 20 times if you dont do it perfectly. You are also playing to much interest and charges on TC's. The first time I traveled my mother forced me to taking them. Ever since I have taken cash.

I dont even think you can go on mount fuji during the winter ( it is closed) but volcanos are often used in down hill speed tests e.g. cycling. So they have the gradient. Some of the smaller less well known resorts have 35+ but for me at least, when you hit that kind of gradient and anything happens, i.e. falling its a hell of a tough walk down.

Mount Fuji or one of the other volcanos.

I cant say Jpop is all bad... Because I got paid a lot( not really a lot but 100,000) to be in a Jpop music video. Its even on youtube. Most useless food in Japan: Bread with out the crust. Internet is useless in Japan for all its worth. Customer support staff, customer facing staff in general. Public places in Japan are pretty useless. No chairs, no bins, no fun. Sorry for starting to rant. I love Japan.

Sunglasses, pair of police but sun tan lotion gets in my eyes in a bad way. So usualy going down the run with one eye closed. I personaly cant stand the type of glasses shown in that photo. Maybe I will upload my photo to show you what I am wearing this year.

Nope, I think I will hold it in. I was just thinking back to the days of the SNES vs. the Megadrive. SNES has so many million colours and all the press said it was unnessesary and the SNES would never make it against the Megadrive. In the end Nintendo is still in the black and sega is almost non existant. I think sony might win in the end. Yeah its a bit expensive. But the calls for boycotting it is just history repeating itself.

If you do can you put a message here. Especialy if you have run into problems you managed to resolve. I dont want to be held liable but their pppoe software is craping all over my pc.

samurai nice line

True story: I was following my friend snowboarding on a rail. Camera in hand. He falls off the rail and I take the same rail on one blade. ( it was a pretty easy rail too) Any time I have tried jumps or rails with normal skiis, the kicker part of the jump, tends to cause to much pressure (as in bending the skiis a lot) at low speeds.

Snowblades.. They have their uses, especialy if you are carrying a camera and want to get in close to your moving subject.

Quote: Originally posted by Bushpig: linux nerd! Yeop! Actualy when I am not using linux sometimes I will use a dos based text browser so I dont get in trouble in work for browsing. Or sometimes I use cygwin on windows. (proxy out of the office if the internet is firewalled) That being said, I think that the whole theme isnt great when I use it at home. I could make a mockup to show what can be done(something more like the snowjapan.com main page) I often make mockup templates for sites, but these days I am too busy to do with out the dollarooos