muikabochi 208 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 The next resort I am covering in my highly acclaimed, award-winning & excitement-filled "This is" series is, da-dah... Joetsu Kokusai. This resort is a less than 10 minute drive from where I live in Minamiuonuna (Niigata). It doesn't look that big from the road, but theres much more to it than can be seen at first, and the best parts are unseen. While there are a fair few really flat areas at this place, there's also some decent courses to enjoy. Good for beginners and intermediates I'd say. The snow often varies a lot here because it is relatively low... today the bottom the snow was a bit 'noisy' but in the Atema part it was really good conditions. I will upload photos either tomorrow or Monday but in the meantime, here are the 2 parts of the video I took: Vid Part 1: http://www.snowjapan.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=c962aa0d22ac97d69b79&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr Vid Part 2: http://www.snowjapan.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=cf82ab059bfccbd02be6&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr -------- Other info if you're interested Info on sj: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=17 Location: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/maps/japan-ma...su-kokusai.html http://www.snowjapan.com/e/maps/snow-jap...namiuonuna.html Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Photos! It wasn't the best weather for photos today, rather grey for most of the time so not much contrast going on. But I took a whole bunch anyway. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/member_photo_gallery.php?userGallery=186 That's looking towards Yuzawa. On the left of the photo you can see the Maiko resort (see vid & photos for Maiko I did). Just to the right of center in the distance you can see Kandatsu. A bit further to the right is Yuzawa Kogen and then on the right hand side you can just about see the top part of Ishiuchi Maruyama. You can see my house on this one, looking north east toward Muikamachi. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Beautiful views. Looks like some decent pitch, too. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Good pics as always muikabochi. Don't you just hate it when the weather isn't perfect. Link to post Share on other sites
Curt 1 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 You put so much effort into these. Good work. Thank you! Link to post Share on other sites
Jyves 0 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 The powder at the top looked pretty nice! Much better than in Dynaland yesterday, that's for sure!!! Thanks for the report. How's the patrol there, by the way? Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Nice one muika! Here is your emmy! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Thank you kokodoko. Glad the screenwriters strike didn't affect anything.. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 So which one is your house then? Link to post Share on other sites
the snowboarding vicar 1 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Lovely. I really like your photos and reports muikabochi. Thank you for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 It's that one over there me jane! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Muika, doing more for the JTB than JTB themselves. :thunbsup: Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm actually getting lots & lots of free beer and yakitori from SJ#1. Link to post Share on other sites
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