Thanks to this site, I was able to check out the Maiko resort in Minamiuonuma yesterday. I had never heard of it before seeing it on here and entering the giveaway. In fact, I know very little about skiing in Japan in general so I was so happy to win that and get a ticket.
Anyway my friends and I drove up from Saitama early morning. We knew that it was going to be busy so decided to be there for the first lift at 8am.
We were on one of the first gondolas and then the first quad lift over at the bowl (thanks muikabochi for all the info and photos you posted before, we knew where t