SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted January 7, 2013 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 7, 2013 SnowJapan Giveaways 2012/2013 At the time of writing this, we have already sent out 40 lift tickets and the winners of the first three Giveaways this season on SnowJapan should have received (or soon receive) their prizes. Congratulations! We very much hope you can get to enjoy them. This season we are announcing the winners in new threads which will also act as a place Resort Reviews and Photos from the trips. Some winners may of course only visit much later on in the season, but we do ask the winners to please share your their on the resorts, write a Resort Review and upload any photos, to SnowJapan after using the ticket. As explained here, feedback from trips helps us keep the Giveaways going in the future as well as providing more good content on the Forums for other people in the future. It all helps. Anyway, you can find these threads in the Trip Reports area of the Forums: http://www.snowjapan...w-trip-reports/ Yoroshiku! Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Good idea. Hope to see my "name" up there soon! Come on winners, don't let us down. Link to post Share on other sites
Moops 0 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 anyone been to shiga this season? what's it like out there? Link to post Share on other sites
Moops 0 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 cool just reached 10 posts. great site by the way guys. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 woot woot! got my madarao tickets! Cheers dudes! will be there either saturaday or sunday this week, and maybe one day in a couple of weeks for a proper second impression. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted January 25, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 25, 2013 OK we have decided to not create a 'pinned' thread for each Giveaway in Trip Reports as originally planned: -- It seems people that would prefer to post their own thread -- which is probably actually better anyway; -- The Trip Report section would end up being pinned topics with very little activity at the top and look rather strange. It doesn't mean that we don't want those reports and photos though. Oh no! So anyway, winners, please do post your reports and photos and we'll be showing the resorts are planned anyone once the season is done. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted January 25, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 25, 2013 We will instead list up the winners in this thread so they are all in one place. (A bit later). Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Madarao Review: http://www.snowjapan...e-titans-day-1/ Hope you guys (and the madarao guys) like it. It lacks bare bones details as do all the reviews i write - actually, as does everything i write - but hopefully catches some of what makes it a decent place to play on. Ill add a second day review in the comments rather than in the review itself. This should cover the majority of it. Second day will be less about exploring and more about just enjoying it, hitting up some of the lines i really wanted to play on a bit more, maybe spending some time over at tangram and hitting up the cruising lines as well as the powder lines. Fun place to be honest. ETA: pic quality is kinda poor, sorry. New ipod touch, looks great on teh screen, but kinda crappy once you enlarge it to a proper screen size. last pic was literally me realising at 4.20 that i didnt have a pic of the mountain. So its a bit dark since its shooting into the sun. Kinda spoils it, but ya kna! needed that pic. Ill get a better one to replace it next time. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted January 29, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 29, 2013 Thanks ippy. Top tip to everyone... entering the same Giveaway 20 times does not increase your chances of winning 20 fold. If anything it probably decreases your changes by about the same amount! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Tickets arrived for sugadaira. Depending on conditions/visibility (no point in going there in a white out), will head up there this weekend or next. Thanks dudes. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I won one of those tickets too! It also just arrived. Let us know what you think of the place Ippy. For what it's worth, their website shows some pretty interesting things involving off piste and snow cats... Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Willco! Never snowcat, you can tell us all about it. Ill probs just stick to the groomers unless i see some obvious poachable lines. I gots a review to write on it. So its more like alpha testing than retail release. this means finding the unclipping spots, the shit slow boring lines, and riding rubbish crapped out lifts with screwed up placements just so i can pad out any review with a tonne of moaning. Because moaning = "balance" Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Interested to hear. We expect photos and impressions. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 you will get a discernment-free double helping of both! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Sugadaira review done! http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/blog/11/entry-125-sugadaira-review/ I tried to keep it as balanced as i could, but yeah, it was obviously not going to be glowing. I think i kept my own voice out of it until the last part though and tried to show the positive as much as possible. Link to post Share on other sites
alexeiw123 2 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Well, I'm well and truly out of holiday mode again with work piled up, Uni assignments that need doing and no ski trips planned in the foreseeable future. The Ski trip was great and the free day in Niseko a bonus. I haven't forgotten about providing a trip report, I just honestly have no time right now, but I plan to do one in the coming weeks, including hopefully some edited footage from my piles of clips and photos. Thanks SJ. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Trip report done for my day at Maiko. http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/22731-tr-sj-giveaway-maiko-korakuen-niigata-sat-2nd-march/ Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 I enjoyed using my tickets at Hakuba Goryu and Tsugaike Kogen last week - trip reports to follow in the next couple of days. Thanks guys! Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Here are my trip reports for Hakuba Goryu and Tsugaike Kogen:- http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/22832-hakuba-goryu-19th21st-march-2013/ http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/22833-tsugaike-kogen-20th-march-2013/ Thanks guys!! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted March 28, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted March 28, 2013 Thanks everyone who have posted reports. Link to post Share on other sites
sand 17 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Thanks everyone who have posted reports. Your welcome, and a big thank you SnowJapan for the awesome giveaways and of course site! Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 About the reports, would it be better to wait until the new site goes online to post it over there... or is that no longer going to be necessary? Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted March 29, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted March 29, 2013 Thanks for the trip reports. It's probably best to wait until the new site is online so that I can more easily explain how we see things working best, Black Mountain. Trip reports on the forums are great, but would be fab if these could (also) be posted as "Resort Reviews" on the new site too. For one thing, that will get many more times the attention than a forums post, and be a much more useful resource for everyone in the long run.... On the new site, everyone with a Forums account will be able to login to a new members area using the same username/password. So it should be quite simple to do these things. Anyway more on that once its all available to see! Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted March 29, 2013 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted March 29, 2013 Sorry, I seem to have got carried away there on the wrong track..... to answer your specific question ( ).......yes, best to wait to post. Link to post Share on other sites
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