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Originally Posted By: MitchPee Please please please do not download ski movies. I have a lot of friends that are seriously affected by this as they put their entire lives into skiing and hardly make anything because people download movies. I want to make it clear I watched The Fine Line on an original DVD, though there were about 6 of us in the room at the time. If 5 had downloaded it, would that be any worse? I sympathise with your friends but I don't think downloading is to blame. You're talking about very niche films which will never get a regular cinema audience so are never going to

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couldn't be bothered trawling through 4 months of archives. I think one month of a good snow year is a fair sample.

They're everyone's favourite but there aren't lots of them in Japan unless you define "lots" as "one or two per season". A look at your Yuzawa link for January 2008 shows 3 fine weather days, none with any fresh snow. Er, yeah lots...

Originally Posted By: muikabochi No, there are quite a lot. In this region anyway. Last year there were more of them than there were snowy ones. Maybe we're not talking about the same thing. I thought you meant blue skies after an overnight dump. In my experience they are extremely rare in Japan. I can only recall one in Hakuba last season.

Originally Posted By: Sciclone I wish I could find more Japanese snowboard vids. Our LBS doesn't stock many and they are way too expensive. Have you tried thepiratebay.org? Not really into snow porn flicks but watched The Fine Line last season. Interesting film and the girl who gets it at the end is hot!

Originally Posted By: Creek Boy I wanna hit up that log riding festival in Nagano thats every 7 years or so. Every 6 years in Suwa, next one this April. Like the fire festival, it usually has several fatalities.

Originally Posted By: muikabochi awesome snow conditions on a bright sunny day That's about once a season in Japan, isn't it?

ok, I get you. Thanks and great pics. Skiing in Wales! lol

Originally Posted By: BagOfCrisps Isn't XL, LL in Japan? Never quite sure about the sizes in Japan. I'm tall and find LL a bit on the small size. Some brands do an OX which is a lot bigger than LL, maybe equivalent to XXL. And some Japanese brands do XXL sizes. I got a one-piece from a Japanese company over the net this season which is a great fit.

Originally Posted By: SJForums Thanks. That's the only one that we own and control I'm afraid (it's looking out of the office window) so all we can do is perhaps show some resorts and suggest it - in fact I think my colleague has, though I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. I posted here last month in off-topic about how you could do this with any webcam (ie. it doesn't have to be yours). It's some linux code which can automatically grab info from a website at a set time and save into a file. There may be a windows equivalent. Looked a bit hard for my computer skills but not very diff

Originally Posted By: MikePow Bolierplate, dust on crust, dry packed powder on a solid base, breakable crust and frozen tussocks. What does packed powder mean?

Originally Posted By: MikePow Originally Posted By: Mr Wiggles What would you call that? Sole deep?! Soul deep Rubber Soul

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain Planning on heading to Madarao on the 23rd or 24th of this month to take advantage of a free ticket I won courtesy of SnowJapan think I won one of those, was wondering where it is. Thanks! Friend's visiting Japan for 2 weeks so will combine it with Nozawa, then head to Niigata and then possibly north, skiing on dump days and doing other touristy stuff the rest of the time.

Originally Posted By: thursday you can't. He fell off, hence no progress. Go into the Hirafutei and ask to sign his cast. You mean get them to show you his headstone.

Originally Posted By: Mudguts Plus ducked the ropes and had the ridge at the top of the giant to ourselves all morning. You ducked a rope? You heathen scum, get out of Japan NOW! We don't want your sort here! Originally Posted By: Mudguts The patrol are alot more chilled out at Cortina this season. They were absolute nazis in the past. Maybe dey is chill because dey smoke da 'erb...

if you let a container fill with snow and divide its weight (minus the container's weight) by its volume, does that tell you the quality of the snow? ie. the less weight per volume, the better it is. Or is champagne powder something else?

a time delay film of him shovelling the roof all season would be nice. Like the one SJ did of the view from his office window.

Originally Posted By: MikePow Having skied on 5 continents I'll take quality over quantity every day. I value your oppinion, MikePow. So you think powder in Japan is actually better? Because I see a lot of North American resorts claiming champagne powder. And I'm no snow consistency expert but I'm sure lots of the powder I've skied this season hasn't been champagne, maybe not even cava. Double typo on the Chamonix vert, oops... 2,8002 meters should read 2,808 meters. Why don't they build a little tower at the top to ski down from and call it 3,000?

good catch, GN. He can't wriggle out of that.

doesn't every resort claim to have shed loads of champagne powder? But 2,8002 meters of vertical is indisputable. Any resort in Japan claimed that and they'd soon be banged up under the trade descriptions act.

Originally Posted By: Leaf Girl I'd also like to have a private hot spring as I have a tattoo on my back and have been told that I won't be allowed in the public hot springs. Lots of hotels have their own "public" (ie. you get naked in front of the other guests) onsen and there are often people in there with tattoos, both foreign and Japanese. Often they'll have both Japanese and Western-style rooms. Making a double bed out of futons is easy. Occasional Japanese-owner accommodation may not really want to deal with non-Japanese speakers but they probably won't come up on your web searches an

Originally Posted By: ger I think we can sum up that it's best NOT to smoke pot or do illegal drugs in Japan. Weed is illegal in Japan, same as it is in most countries in the. People still smoke it. I don't see anything special about Japan. Personally, even in a supposedly lax place like the UK I'd never consider it worth taking a drug if I knew I was going to get caught. But in reality the chance of getting caught is very small.

what d'you mean by "tracked out"?

guess I can always swill happoshu and read my book for 5 hours while I wait.