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Originally Posted By: nagoid Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board? er, no, that would be DSSSB. The recognised acronym is DSHSB (dry smash her shit box), which I adapted to DSYSB (dry smash your shit box). Anyway, we had a nice drink last night and I think things might get intimate, so maybe I'll be able to talk her round after all.

Originally Posted By: gnarly-dude Tell us when you do it and if you get the female to go, I'll take some pics. My friend asked her last night and she said yada! Probably didn't help him saying he'd film us. Emi-chan, if you're reading this, I want to DSYSB!

I'm going there again this Saturday, but not if I can't ski from the peak. Are you saying you're *never* allowed to take board/skis up? Surely that can't be so. Here's a quote from a brochure: "Home to one of the steepest ski slopes in Japan. Runs averaging 35 and up to 45 degrees. Test your nerve and brave the slopes of Kijimadaira." Interestingly that tour goes on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so some punters may be disappointed.

Originally Posted By: tokabochi Are you a practising 'naturalist' then tripler? Like down the beach and hiking and stuff? Only the onsen and the shower.

Originally Posted By: seemore Great Tripler I have heard that ski patrol actually applaud this and they would also let you jump the q to ride the button lifts naked. Seemore Seriously? That's frigging rad! If we do it I'll post a full trip report with pics. Hopefully there'll be a female amongst us, though I haven't asked her yet. I think I mentioned here last year that in the Hakuba 2007-08 season the instructors of a well known Happo ski school are supposed to have done it. I don't know whether they wore gloves or helmets or took photos, but I believe it was a mixed group.

Some friends and I are thinking of finishing the season with a naked top to bottom run, about 1000 meters. Does anyone have any experience of this? For example, would Ski Patrol be on our arses? (no pun intended). Is being naked in public an arrestable offence in Japan? My plan is to carry clothes in rucksacks for a fast change, if needed; just wear gloves and a helmet. I'm thinking tree runs would be too dangerous in terms of foliage whiplash, so it would be groomed and managed powder runs. Thanks

I've sometimes wondered about this, and gondola speeds too. I'd like to see comprehensive data about it on the resort info pages. One thing I particularly hate is gondolas with a mid-station. Wastes so much time! I would seriously consider not visiting a resort with that style gondola. Though with lifts and gondolas, steepness of the slope as well as speed, has a lot to do with how much vertical you're gaining per second. The most relevant stat would probably be vert per second rather than distance per second.

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude You must be right! I seem to remember that you have always been right in the past. Well done sir! Shit, you took that much too well. I was hoping to be banned for flaming!

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude Originally Posted By: tripler They do service the same terrain. Well, no they don't, actually. Not exactly the same. Saying it more than once won't change it! No, not exactly the same but very close. Nothing much would be lost by closing pair lifts 8 and 6. Can't you see from the piste map you kindly posted, that it's very easy to ski from the top of lift 7 to the run served by lift 8? In real life it's even more obvious. Go back to Iiyama City dolls museum, where you belong.

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude They probably heard that tripler was going. I did consider storming back down to the ticket office and demanding a refund. But then I remembered, this is Japan. Incompetence must be embraced with a smile. Another Kijima warning - DO NOT eat at Milky May, a place on the right going up I pair, their food is shite (even when paying for it with a voucher included in the lift ticket price). Pizza set was disgusting, coffee tasted bad. I tried a bit of tuna cream pasta, it wasn't much better. To cap it all, they thought it acceptable to do a spot of carpentry

ok, I forgot the pair is actually 2 lifts: I and F. I pair starts from exactly the same spot as D quad. And its sister lift, F pair, arrives about 100 meters from D quad. They do service the same terrain. So they're actually running 2 unnecessary lifts at the cost of 1 essential one. A good example of Japanese logic... Another thing that made me laugh was F pair stops for lunch from 12pm to 1pm! Jesus Christ, Kijimadaira, are you running a ski resort or a donkey sanctuary?

Originally Posted By: dyna8800 Judging from the numbers of skiers/snowboarders going on weekdays, most places simply cannot afford opening all the lifts. But they have 2 lower lifts open, a quad and a pair, which literally go from and to the same place. The lift to the peak I think is a 3 man (maybe a pair), so they've not saved any manpower costs. It's just stupid. Admittedly at the moment it would be a long icy steep run. But to have it closed on a powder day would be a tragedy.

The top lift at Kijimadaira (25 mins drive from Nozawa Onsen) is only open on weekends. It covers over half the vertical and all the steep terrain. With two lower lifts going to the same place, it's hard to understand why they close the one to the peak. So not worth visiting weekdays.

I'm looking for an XL or XXL one-piece to buy online. None of the usual ski gear sites don't have big sizes in stock. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

Warmest ever day in Feb maybe but not warmest ever Feb. JMA have already put up the average for this Feb as 2C, a lot colder than last year at 4.2C. Warmest ever Feb, at least since 1886, was 5.6C in 1990, 2nd coldest: 5.1C in 2007, 3rd coldest: 4.9C in 1979.

Happo (Hakuba), 28th of March 2009. Lift accessed. But probably it will be slush with huge patches of earth.

Those temps match very well with my experience and what I've heard of good and bad seasons over the last 5 years. I agree on any given day a cold temp doesn't mean it's going to snow but averaged over a season it does. I doubt there's ever been a really cold season with a lack of snow.

Originally Posted By: TJ OZ Not sure what the stats were 5000 thousand years ago however I reakon every day and every year would have been different then too. Global warming - not sure. Average monthly temperatures for 1889-2010 on JAM's site make for interesting reading. I just looked at Nagano in January. At -4.9, 1945 must have been one awesome season! (January this season was -0.2, last season was 0.9, the season before -0.7 and the legendary 2005-06 season was -2.1) The data shows temperatures varied at lot from year to year even in the 19th century but also clearly shows the 1990s an

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver The other day I saw this well 'ard guy walking through the station That was probably me.

How common is it for Ski Patrol to come save people in the BC? The deaths, which is what resort owners worry about, mostly couldn't be prevented by Ski Patrol. If you get buried by an avalanche there's 30 seconds to dig you out before brain damage happens, quickly followed by death. Far too short a time for Ski Patrol to get there.

just don't rescue them, much simpler.

Ping Tian in China is supposed to be the next big resort in the Orient. But their website's been saying "we're almost open" for 3+ years.

what kind of "other" things?

sorry MB, no insult meant; I also very firmly inhabit the world of unreality.

Interesting thing about Hakuba is how many properties are empty.