damian 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 I reckon one of the best parts of a snow trip is finishing the day with snow just dumping then during the night it keeps dumping. As the night progresses I always wake up and look outside to see if my dsignated snow depth marker has been covered up. At about 3am I usually do my last 'wake up and check the snow' and when you see the depth marker has been buried you get really excited and cant get back to sleep. On top of the anticipation that it builds, I find that white snow fall against a black sky looks really cool. Link to post Share on other sites
Kurage-Taro 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 There will be none of that this season. Perhaps next year. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Yeah, that's right. Damn! but that's an awfully suspicious looking name... Link to post Share on other sites
Kurage-Taro 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Just kidding. Bumper season starting next week. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 it isnt me, i do not even know what "-taro" means. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 > I find that white snow fall against a black sky looks really cool. You're right darls, it certainly does. Especially after a nice Baileys. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 Very weak effort! My expression didn't even sound gay. If you want to hear something that sounds gay, ask SBF for his thoughts on the matter. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 2 years ago in hakuba we went to bed after getting pissed and deciding to sleep in. when me buddy woke up 8:00am and looked out the window he said "there is 30cms on the car and its dumping". I said thats BS you just want us to wake up. The car was full of snow and it was an epic storm. Skied untracked all day lapping up Happo. No one wanted to go up high cause it was so cold and windy. Rabbit and anying around kurobishi was thigh deep and our tracks were filling in every 20 minutes. we would rip down one side use it hit the other come back and find no tracks. What a day (it snowed so much it buried the snow guns put out the night befroe. I know cause I hit a buried one). Had it not been for my buddy checking before he pissed we would have missed half of an epic day. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Snow at night is best when you're in a car. If you start watching it, the way it swirls into the windscreen is really hypnotic. You've got to watch out for it when you're driving otherwise you'll probably end up in a ditch. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 My thoughts on the subject - "I'm in touch with my feminine side." Anyway, back to the real topic, I find falling snow very interesting. I dig being outside when snow is falling. It's very relaxing. As NoFakie said it's hynoptic. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 When the flakes are really big and falling very densely and there is not wind. It is almost surreal. What business does something like that have falling from the sky. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 What business does something like that have falling from the sky=the business of making us "cream are pants" There are three days I can remember no 4 #1 kawaba the first place I saw snow freakin go nuts, 500 inches that year 1995/96. snowed every 3 days with storms up and over your chest after 3 to 4 days. Best day, weekday riped runs infront of the forest service all day. Got a warning from my buddy on patrol after. He said you knew the forest service were here. This guy was a bum from whitewater he gave me the warning but he knew, know he wished he was me. choke deep sometimes. HAd to shovel during the night just so we could get out of the house in the am. watching it snow stoked you or bummed you. stoked day off, bummed dam bastards have the day, off i dont. #Cortina 4 days the first being thigh deep. Everyday after that waist deep. Most of the first pics I put up here were of those days. A friend and I were about the only ones lapin that pow. sick. Drove and slept in the car, decided after watching the snow fall to drive over to COrtina after the first 15 minutes of snow. Sun peaks and fernie 2 in one. sking 2 crazy lines one a mellow 3000 vert bowl with a 30% falline knee deep. the other thigh deep with Alisha Cline and seth (not morrison) last day at the peaks hittng the Back country and hiking after lifts closed till the sun was going down. Watching that chick try 360s on her board. Best skier I ever met, that I never saw ski. Couldnt sleep that night stayed with a friend then hiked at 6am just to try and get a fix. #4 last year driving to hakuba watching the snow fall. 10 hours to hakuba slow driving but... the wind in hakuba was a blessing and curse. First many people just gave up. This made the bottom of the mountain a pow heaven but cold as fuk. runs that were near or around the gondola line had know one going down them cause, you had to traverse 2 to 5 minutes. The next day the top opened and the lines I got were dreamy and so dry. All day powder was had. A whole night of driving with Oufreeki2 knowing that it was going to be something to remember. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Quote: When the flakes are really big and falling very densely and there is not wind. It is almost surreal. Thats just tops isn't it!? Especially when its in the evening and you know you're going to be riding it the following morning Link to post Share on other sites
sweetaz 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 especially ....when you are out in a small town, very early in the am(walking home fr pub)..... the fat flakes seem to blanket everything in a peaceful silence beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites
Siren 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Oh Sweet, you are romantic. Link to post Share on other sites
sweetaz 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 **blush** Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 ...excuse me. Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 After driving up from Osaka, taking the ferry across the 'gap' and landing in the promised land, (Hokkaido) I drove until the snow was deep on the road. Pulled into a rest area, lay down in the back and looked up at the falling snow. No memory quite like it for serenity. Lying in the back of my van watching the snow fall makes up for any lack of accomodation in my book. Hopefully i'll have got my camper by next year, best of both worlds! Waking up to snow piled higher than the car ledge is pretty damn exciting too, I might add... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 I would love to do some of this driving and camping in teh car, getting piled with snow etc. Either with a few mates or female company, either would work well. My little brother lived in a big Dodge van at Big White for I think his first 4 seasons there. He was certainly 100% van bound for his first 2 seasons and I think 50/50 after that. Either way, I recon a full season living in a van in a cold place like that is hardcore. Link to post Share on other sites
RayInJapan 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 slow big flakes falling is cool...especially if you're sitting in an outside onsen (co-ed preferred)...sometimes when the snow is like that, and the wind is swirling just a little, Momo and I fill the tub with hot water, open the window and relax with the snow blowing into the bathroom - very cool... FT - I hear you about the snow falling so fast it buries your tracks - last winter we went to Ajigasawa for Christmas and it was like that all christmas night and all the next day. It was a weekday so we practically had the slopes to ourselves with fresh powder all day long - strong candidate for my best day on the slopes in my short 2 (soon to be 3) seasons of snowboarding... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by RayInJapan: ...especially if you're sitting in an outside onsen (co-ed preferred)... g'day Ray. I know what you mean by co-ed, but i just have to point out that when I read that term I for some reason always think it means "with school children" - then I cringe and remember what it actually means. Sick, I know. I promise that I am not infering that you mean this, I just had to say something. I have a German friend who on a business trip was suggesting that we all go a sauna (in Germany). He said we would enjoy it as he knew of a good bisexual sauna. His intent was honest, but the wording was easily confused. Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 back to the hypnotic snow while driving, sometimes i feel like i'm in a star wars movie bc the snow turns into lines as i drive past. does that make sense? Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 oh and whats the j word for co-ed onsens- like konnyaku, kongyaku something like that? i always get it confused with the oden thing. regardless they are super fun Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 nekobi, that's because you're driving too fast. Driving in a snowstorm on the highway gives you the odd illusion that you're actually standing still so you put your foot down harder - then look down at the speedo and realize that you're going at 160 kph on a snowy road with 10 m visibility. It's kon-yoku. Link to post Share on other sites
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