Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Actually, it was yesterday, just a sprinkling, and already gone today it seems. But snow nevertheless. And an excuse to try out the new topic prefixes. From the Grandeco web site: Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Did it glow at night? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Always good to see snow coming in. Link to post Share on other sites
Zer0star 0 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 nice! Grandeco gets a fair bit of snow considering where it is. If you're lucky the season can start in late Nov and continue till early May. It's like a little bit of Hokkaido transplanted into Fukushima. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Never been there. Not really wanting to bring it all up but.... just how far from "Fukushima" is this place? What are the readings like there? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Gran Deco is a nice compact ski-jo. Good for a day trip for sure, pretty good for families i reckon as all the courses come together at the bottom of the resort, if any kids get lost, then you can always tell em to just ride to the bottom of the slope and uyou'll get em there Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Never been there. Not really wanting to bring it all up but.... just how far from "Fukushima" is this place? What are the readings like there? Looks like about 85 km from the power plant, from google maps. As for readings, their web site quotes the Kitashiobara and Inawashiro city hall readings, which are 0.14 and 0.12 uSv/h respectively. However, someone seems to have taken a radiation monitor to their slope on July 8th, according to this map (on the earthquake page of this site): http://www.nnistar.c.../fukushima.html There are 4 readings at the ski area itself, and one in the nearby woods: 0.33, 0.34, 0.23, and 0.25 uSv/h, plus one somewhere between 0.1 and .2 uSv/h (exact value not given). So... somewhere around 0.26 uSv/h on average as of July 8th. It'll be a little bit lower now, but close to that. There is also Prof. Hayakawa's contour map, based on the same measurements as in the map above, which puts Grandeco right at the 0.25 uSv/h contour line: There are also government helicopter-based measurements on this map: ...where it looks like Grandeco is right about on the 0.2 uSv/h contour line. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 0.2 is similar to background radiation in most places. So absolutely to worry about there. Link to post Share on other sites
best skier in hakuba 5 Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 What a wild situation. Poring over radiation contamination maps to decide which skijo are 'safe' or not. Link to post Share on other sites
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