far away 0 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 I stumbled across this site when trying to tell people about skiing in Japan and am well impressed - wish I had had all this good English language snow info when I was skiing/boarding in Japan pre-www days. Good work. Now I am living as far from the snow as its probably possible to be (Singapore). For all you enjoying what looks like, from the messages, an excellent season, make me jealous and tell me: How close do you live to the snow? Sad to say that will have to keep me going until I can come back to Japan. well, can't stay chatting I'm off to the beach. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted January 28, 2003 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 28, 2003 Thanks for the comments, far away. Please do tell your friends about our site. OK, to make you jealous - SnowJapan.Com HQ (!) is located in Yuzawa (Niigata), and many of our main contributors are located in snow towns - so we have lots of resorts in sight, and many more nearby. But just to make you feel a bit better - we are so busy running and developing the site, there's hardly any chance to get out onto the mountains. Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 Poor dears. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 I can go from my house to the carpark at Nozawa in 15 mins, 10 mins in summer. Getting out of bed and getting on the lift takes about 1 hr I reckon with a konbini stop for snickers. rubbing it in Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 i live in singapore. well part time anyways. its a real bummer living here. the closest thing to snow you can get around here is either a) the bath foam they pump out at around xmas time outside tanglin mall and the foam ontop of a tiger beer. im heading to japan on friday morning. im stoked. Link to post Share on other sites
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy 0 Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Too far. I'm in north eastern part of Saitama. Link to post Share on other sites
hem now 0 Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 My house is 30 min from the Hakkoda car park in summer, and about 45 min in winter. Far away - welcome to this forum, and a jolly big gomen for all those living in Singers! I worked in Indo for a while - you know what you can do with your 120% humidity and 38 degrees... cheers, hem now Link to post Share on other sites
barok 0 Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 1 hour from my doorstep to the Goryu gondola, barring laggers. Link to post Share on other sites
Dokumanju 0 Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 5 hours in the car for me, from Izuhantou to Hakuba with about 3 conbini stops on the way. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 close coz its snowing outside now! Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 20 minutes from sick Alpine Valley, located right in the center of Carhartt territory. http://www.skialpinevalley.com/ I'm trying to track down the perfect used snorkel parka, jeans/snow gaiters look in surplus stores around here. The preferred look is to bomb straight down the hill on rental or garage-sale skis, bent/lit Marlboro Red in your mouth, with dirty parka unzipped to reveal a can of Budweiser in the breast pocket. Link to post Share on other sites
Scaramanga 0 Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Not nearly near enough. Link to post Share on other sites
sachiko 0 Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 I am close to much snow, but not close to many big resorts. I must travel quite much for some bigger resorts. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 I'm about a 5 hour drive from the snow here in Australia. Not nearly close enough! Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Fairly near. Yuzawa and Arai/Myoko regions within easy reach, some Fukushima resorts not too far off either. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 yo joshnii where abouts are you? Im about 15-20mins on the expressway from Myoko. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 back in singapore now. and it most royally blows. its hot and been raining for the better part of the day. i dont really think i will ever have the opportunity to live in close proximity to the snow. Link to post Share on other sites
sexer 0 Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Getting closer. In Sapporo tonight, on to Rusutsu early tomorrow morning!! Yeeehaaaa Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I'm in Hakuba right now! Yipeeeeee! I hope it snows, though. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Just living in da snow. Jealous? for removing snow?? LOL Link to post Share on other sites
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