snowdude 44 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Originally Posted By: muikabochi So cold there? It's 5 degrees here at the moment. Raining too. It's crystal clear sky here, thats why the temps are low, think this area can get down to around -10 in mid winter, not so cold compared to some places but never the less quite cold! Another reason, here is a bonchi climate and as I am living in the mountains at the foot of them means large temp variations. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 yeah Fuji was Killer this morning!! a huge snow blanket covers most of the mountain Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Gala Yuzawa are opening!!!! (No snow though, you will be skiing on brushes!) Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 so what are people gonna do there? Picnic? Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Snow mat... Isn't that the same thing Marunuma uses for their "summer gelaende"? What is that like to ski on? Wouldn't it be rough on your skis? Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Kumanoyu up at Shiga Kogen has 2 lifts and one course open. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone though, best to wait. Forecast not looking good for the week ahead. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: SKI Every year it seems to be the same with opening dates at places like Kagura, Nozawa. Either a real struggle or just totally not happening. Perhaps Naeba got it right after all by saying 5th Dec. The two week forecast that now reaches the weekend of the 5th looks grim for snow. Nozawa kind of boast of having no snow machines, but it would be better if they did. It can take a while to get going there and coverage late season disappears very quickly lower down. Not that its actually cold enough to make snow without lots of energy just yet. Experience says everything can change very quickly if a good system comes through. Not on the radar just yet though. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 Looks like fun hey! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: Metabo Oyaji Snow mat... Isn't that the same thing Marunuma uses for their "summer gelaende"? What is that like to ski on? Wouldn't it be rough on your skis? It depends what kind of mats they are using. I've skied on the old style bristle-lattice mats, which are horible and it hurts if yu fall over and I've skied on the newer kind Snoturf matting thats more like the stuff they use for artificial football pitches, this kind is actually quite good. The way they pad it underneath mean that if you do fall over then it's not sore. Both of them mess up your skis though. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: muikabochi Looks like fun hey! Nah. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Sapporo Kokusai, Sapporo Teine, and Kiroro opened this morning. There was a nice snowfall from midnight, so it should be good! Teine only has the gondy to the top and one lift running, so not much open there. I don't think Kiroro is fully open either. I can't go until Tuesday, so someone get out there and get some for me! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Hokkaido wins. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 It was looking really dire there for a moment, but although it hasn't been snowing in Sapporo all that much yet, it has been dropping in the hills for the past week-and-a-half or so. Hopefully there will be some nightly "fill in" snowfall until I can get up there! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: pie-eater Hokkaido wins. not surprisingly. Wish I lived there....the girlfriend is having nothing of it though!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Originally Posted By: muikabochi Looks like fun hey! tbh it is fun, nothing as good as the real thing, but I did enjoy the times I skied on the dry slope Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Thanks for the feedback, Tubby. Might be fun to give a shot some summer (on rented equipment!), with appropriately set expectations. Looks like Kagura is debating opening on Monday, with final decision due by Sunday morning at 9:00. Good luck to them! Personally gunning now for Gran Deco's planned opening next Saturday, 11/28. Snow depth on the live cameras looks to be all of about 3 mm at the base... hope Mother Nature helps out this week. Link to post Share on other sites
Matt 0 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Looks like nothing until the 3rd or 4th of December after which theres a nice system shaping up on the medium range wx forecast. http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Early days yet, but should keep an eye on it. Link to post Share on other sites
best skier in hakuba 5 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Whoah planned desired opening today but nothing until 3rd/4th December, 12 days later. Us sad. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 22, 2009 Author Share Posted November 22, 2009 Kagura will open tomorrow after all. Sounds like an effort to me, but... info on the Naeba Now page. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Cool. Not for me but will look forward to some pics. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Nice sunny day for it anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Originally Posted By: muikabochi honshu = why would anybody wanna be in Hokkaido is beyond me. Link to post Share on other sites
ILoveZao 8 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 At least we had 20cm of snow to play in. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Fukushima is out for now: both Gran Deco and Nekoma have declared no go on their planned openings this Saturday. Casting furtive glances in Marunuma's direction. Link to post Share on other sites
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