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One more desk? Surely if they win, they will need a whole new airport with many new immigration desks.

Haha! Seemore...never miss an opportunity to flog the excess spoils of the gear whore I've got piles in my loft too! Mt Granview. One day I shall tick it off the bucket list!

oh you dirty boy!!

What? Not interested in focussing on NH activities?

Snowing at Perisher, and some cryptic suggestions it might also be snowing at Thredbo...but unconfirmed as yet. But it is definitely end of season. Time to focus on NH activities.

Welcome to the forums jpek (from another West Aussie). You will find a lot of what you seek simply by reading past threads here, or doing some research on the other bits of SnowJapan than the forums. Given that this will only be your second season on a board and tree's and powder are going to be new to you I would expect that you would not be spending a lot of time off piste, and if you did it would be piste edges, not straying too far from patrolled area's. Most resorts in Japan will give you what you are after. Niseko (not Nisenko, I assume that was a typo), is pretty busy over

Only those travelling during school holidays.Families and teachers. School goes back end of Jan/beginning of Feb.

They apparently still use oil, just a very small amount.

Ya... eyeball licking....Pinkeye is in...get with the program Nags.... Waterbeds died with sideburns, elbow patches, lava lamps and disco.... TRUST ME....let them rest in peace. Was put to bed at Aunt and Uncles place as a child on a Water Bed. Brother on the other side. I get motion sick, and he kept moving...needless to say I puked. Waterbeds. Do Not Like.

I've got $2 worth for ya Goz One on each hand.

2020 is too early for them even IF they were to make it Stem. But I reckon we will know at least one player, if not a few...which is why I am so keen to get tix

How did I know that would be the answer

Am I missing something here? Sarcasm Well I assumed so initially, but when it continued to be asked I started to wonder. So who do I hand the fat envelope to to ensure tickets to the Water Polo?

Am I missing something here?

see....its all in the translation of that flowery Japanese

That's the LAST ice age GN.... I want the NEXT one

Would've been a lot more scary if the board had connected with his head - imagine the BLOOD! Bottom line: Nighta at Niseko wins.

It is your first time in Japan. There's tracked out, and then there is tracked out. Niseko/Hirafu is a good start and might meet your needs and desires, especially as you don't want to carry Avi gear. It's relatively easy to get to Rusutsu for a day trip, and if what you find in your 10 days leaves you wanting more, then do an avi course, get some gear and book for some more extreme locations next trip.

Needs DOME for that ^

Imagine my children's disappointment when they nagged us to take them to Thredbo's Nighta offering after 4 weeks of riding Hirafu Nighta... That was the event where baby bear split his helmet when he scorpioned on the most unforgiving of hardpacked refreeze and the board edge connected violently with the rear of the helmet. They've never asked to go Nighta ANYWHERE other than Hirafu since.

I think what Tubby meant was that your posts read as if they are written by someone with English as a 2nd language, therefore he doubts you are a natural born Australian.

Maybe that stereotypes are not always accurate?.....

Not sure about that, Tubby. The Sydney Olympic park precinct is a well utilised venue! Sporting and cultural uses abound. The village was sold as individual units, some transported to other locations, and the rest (as I believe) used for a local housing development. The water sports centre is a highly used facility. brings plenty of money to the western suburbs of sydney, too! Large scale developments like this can bring revitalisation if they are managed right - they can be a very good thing. If they are managed poorly, then yes, the result can be decaying white elephants. We could do

really? WOW! I would've called wetter also. My place has not dried out at all. Paths are all slippery and green it has been so dark and wet.

Jeezuz WVS...there's no need for that kind of nonsense!