tripler

Originally Posted By: Gtrain Tripler, have you tried a board without one? Yes, briefly. Made removing snow from the boot less easy but using the bindings instead did the job. I don't remember it affecting getting off lifts. These days I try to strap up both feet before I reach the end anyway. If it was 500 yen I probably would get one for snow removing convenience. Just the principal of the thing, paying 1000 yen (that's £7) for literally a piece of plastic, that galls me. Maybe 100 yen shops stock them.

I borrowed someone's powder board for a few days and it didn't have one. I think I just scraped snow off on the bindings. I don't recall getting off lifts being harder.

Wondering whether to get a stomp pad for my new snowboard. My previous (first) board had one and I did find it useful for scraping snow off my boots and gripping the board coming off chair lifts. But browsing in Sports Depo today I saw they're 1000 yen even for their own-brand. It pains me to pay 1000 yen for a piece of plastic. And now I'm a better boarder I wonder if I really need one. pic in case you didn't know it's called a stomp pad (I didn't)

Originally Posted By: BagOfCrisps Where is that tripler? It's Miseto in Azumino, Nagano prefecture - 30 miles south of Hakuba.

Originally Posted By: SantaCruz Mamabear, I've been told that broken wrists are the most common SB injury, so wrist guards seem like a good idea. There is a school of thought which says wrist guards *cause* broken wrists. But I still wear mine even though I'm a pretty experienced boarder. Feels weird without them, though I do wonder a bit what they're supposed to do as the guard is only on the inside of the wrist and I'd have thought it's more common for the hand to get bend away from the arm in a fall.

Originally Posted By: thursday which prefecture is that in? Not heard of it. not sure about the prefecture but it's the High Tatras mountains. If you're thinking that looks pretty steep from the top, well apparently you can't ski it and the section below is all black runs. (I wonder if you literally can't ski it or if there just aren't any official pistes.) The cable car's supposed to date from 1950.

Originally Posted By: 2pints,mate Perhaps "most site" are correct. but a slovakian told me resorts there opened in october this season.

Anyone know a website with historical snow data from there? I'd heard resorts in Slovkia were already open but most sites say Tatranská Lomnica (or anywhere else) doesn't open till December. Anyone skied there early in the season? Thanks

You can find big sizes online. Works out cheaper than buying in japan even with shipping. Google backcountry.

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i always wear helmet, knee pads and wrist guards but never transceiver, probe or shovel. When I go backcountry it's just between me and God...

Originally Posted By: roscoe You could always call it the Daily dump.And hope it happens with a pic of a dude's hairy arse defecating on some fresh POW...

Originally Posted By: SJForums With things like this we'd like to ask that people please either send it to us via PM or by email. We're happy to hear about these things but that way it gets sorted quicker by us and also leaves this thread uncluttered with this kind of request. You could have a Feedback/Admin forum. I've seen that work well on an unrelated bulletin board. Bug reports, bans, suggestions, etc are all made in the feedback forum. That keeps the other forums uncluttered and allows the webmaster (or whatever you call yourself) to easily see if anything needs fixing.

Azumino this morning. Thanks for the fix, SJ.

Originally Posted By: TJ OZ Tickets are about 2600yen up and down. So if you ski down, you're paying 2600 for one ride up gondola, alpen and *maybe* grat quad? That's a bit steep. Shame you can't buy a day ticket.

and they won't stop you taking a board on cos the resort's not open, or anything like that? Are day tickets on sale? Also, are the goryu and 47 gondolas running too?

Originally Posted By: ausi ski bum Plenty of snow on the cam in Furano I love this cam and how it updates once every second, its fun to watch http://furano.miemasu.net:85/ImageViewer?Direction=Direct& Great webcam, wish they all updated that quick.

Originally Posted By: TJ OZ This is the mid mountain area of Happo One. Is the gondola running?

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Yuzawa got a Shink stop right next to the Gondola station? You've just made me want to visit Yuzawa a lot more.

all I'm saying is at happo, the hill I know best, warnings about going out of bounds are ambiguous and conflicting. I admit I don't know the details of when people got tickets pulled but I know it has happened a few times. That said, I always ski the "wrong" side of the rope and never had any problems. My advice is if you get apprehended, play the dumb gaijin and pretend you thought YOUR side of the rope was the RIGHT side and the OTHER side was out of bounds. Failing that, suddenly spot a 1000 yen note on the ground and say "You saw it first - it's yours". That's like a week's pay to them so

Originally Posted By: SKI Out of bounds. Think about it. I wonder what those words MEAN? to me they mean "you pay the cost of rescue by us [snow patrol] and if we can't be bothered to interrupt out tea break we won't come looking for you". Totally fair enough as far as I'm concerned. Just don't go nicking tickets.

Originally Posted By: SKI And anyway, 'honest' punters would not be 'out of bounds'. signs at happo are pretty ambiguous. Most just say "ski here at your own risk". I don't think I've ever seen one mention confiscating lift tickets, but it does happen.

and what about when the snow police steal passes off honest punters caught out of bounds? They're ripping off the customer there, so they deserve to be ripped off a bit themselves. What goes around comes around...

Originally Posted By: Mamabear Also...ski resorts continue to function because we use and PAY for the facilities they provide. If we, the consumer, tries to find ways to rip the resorts off more and more resorts will be force to close as they are unprofitable. Is lending out a season pass really ripping off the resort? Staff of bars and hotels always share one belonging to their establishment. The lift companies must know that. If you buy a car and drive it some of the time and your wife drives it some of the time, are you ripping off the car manufacturer or the highways agency? Should you

Originally Posted By: Mamabear Great! Let's start lobbying some construction company's then.. Tell them to make it stop right next to the gondola, not 25 mins away. And maybe build everything underground to not disturb existing roads and buildings. And if possible get it ready for the 2009-10 season.