RobBright 35 Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 it's deffo not going to be a day for the camera though Doh! Turning out not to be my season for photos. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I take that back. Some blue sky and sun over Minamiuonuma at the moment. Forecast to get it totally wrong by the looks. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 So very almost decided not to bother, yet here I am, train to nozawa and way less busy. Still free seats available! Definitely feel like garbage though and only really the zerker turned it around for me. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Only a few clouds in the sky. Temps feel slightly warmer than expected. But definitely looking camera friendly at the minute. Pity only camera I have is the tablet (must buy anew iPod touch) and I doubt I'm taking that up. Should be a nice day for a cruise in the yamabiko pow. Definitely staying off tanuki today. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Clouded over quite a lot here in Minamiuonuma. Looks like it might even snow. Can't make it's mind up!! Perhaps eventually the forecast will be right. Whatever though snow should be great. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Snow update: The snow at the station is soooooooooo fluffy. No crud, pure powder. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Nice Started snowing! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 To be honest, just looking up the hill its looking kinda tracked out up there. Even runs like the small black steep off skyline into karasawa that no one ever uses looks completely shredded. Clouds moving in, temps definitely warm at minute and heard my first ever stay on piste please, warning from ski patrol in English. Guess there's a decent slide risk going into the afternoon. Or... maybe they're finally clamping down on it. Either way, I'm all about the cruising today. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Screwed up again. I think I, getting senile. Not once, but twice. First one though was HILARIOUS (if you were watching). Goggles fogged up a little bit coming up for my first line on yamabiko. Figured I'd head the skiers right line in the trees and then under the lift... super flat light, poor visit in my goggles, rolled off to where I thought the trees were when suddenly I was in some kind of free fall. Turns out there's now a path cut in to make the line easier to climb from the lift. Didn't have the slightest idea what was happening and slammed into an icy path 2 meters below where I thought I was. If you saw it you would have killed yourself laughing. Second one, ducked the rope on skiers right to ride those trees. Great run, but I knew I was coming too low. Thought I could recover, but snow was way too deep to traverse. Had to boot pack it around the flat line to get back. Took just over an hour. Would have been MUCH longer, but was blessed by having four skiers who also popped a bit too low break the trail through. Almost ended the day right there. Took another couple of yamabiko lines down the creek beds, then headed to mizunashi to play. That cheered me up no end.had a fun blast down ushikubi saw the gondola queue stretch beyond the restaurants and decided to call it a day. Definitely have a couple of stress injuries for my bother. conditions were great, loads of powder, but as ever, too deep and slow up yamabiko. Ushikubi back to life though so might still pop out tomorrow for another one down the ridge lines. Eta: there's serious amounts of snow around iiyama right now. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Got a flat organised......I'll be moving to Sapporo the end of March!!! Look forward to next season shredding and talking up Hokkaido-most-consistent-powder-on-the-planet!! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 Well done. Can we expect a place to stay too? Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Nice! Will see you in the mountains (hills?) of Hokkaido. Teine was at its absolute best yesterday, deep and lots of fun with a big crew. Just heading out now to Mt Racey. Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 What part of Sapporo will you be in? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Sure Rob! There's a capsule hotel just up the road Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 What part of Sapporo will you be in? Maruyama koen Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Congrats, TB, on getting to Live the Dream. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Good one TB - do you have a job lined up? yeah I know I sound like your mum Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Nice! Hope the move up here goes smoothly. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Sure Rob! There's a capsule hotel just up the road It's OK. You can also stay in your flat when I'm there. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Good one TB - do you have a job lined up? yeah I know I sound like your mum Yeah.....I can get a transfer with the same company. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Nice! Will see you in the mountains (hills?) of Hokkaido. Teine was at its absolute best yesterday, deep and lots of fun with a big crew. Just heading out now to Mt Racey. Care to 'show us' these places, MagSeven? Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 grats on the set up dude. As for me, missed the train again. Stuck behind the barriers for 2 needless minutes while train to ueda pulled into the station, sat around for a bit and then finally trundled out. Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Cool TB great to hear Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Congrats, Tubby! Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Nice! Will see you in the mountains (hills?) of Hokkaido. Teine was at its absolute best yesterday, deep and lots of fun with a big crew. Just heading out now to Mt Racey. Care to 'show us' these places, MagSeven? Cheers. Sure! In the Teine bowls Under the summit express at Teine Pow and sunshine at Mt Racey Link to post Share on other sites
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