I was happy to get this ticket late in the season (Thank you Ryuoo and Snowjapan!) because of how high elevation a resort Ryuoo is. I was hopeful that the coverage at the top would be good despite being so late in the season. It didn’t disappoint. The snow wasn’t the best, but there was still plenty of it! The courses above the gondola don’t have the cleverest names (A, B and C), but that makes things easy to explain. I spent my warm-up runs on the A run which is the longest and easiest slope. It has a nice wall on the left, so I was able to practice some backside 180s and even hit a couple of