Mick Rich 78 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Lots of the white stuff has fallen and is still falling in Niigata :-) Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Have fun Mick. I'm off to Niigata in an hour or so, so no skiing for me this weekend. Perhaps Tuesday. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted February 22, 2013 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted February 22, 2013 Sorry Chris......I would've IF I had gotten ur msg.....but SnowJapan thwarted me (��) Going to kags on Sunday, with a Shonan crew Oh, very sorry Tubby! Kagura should be good though Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 As good as Kags will be, it can never be as bottomless as Haks. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Neeeee-mu!!! On the train, feel super rough, loadsasnow though. Train to nozawa is less busy mind you. Plenty of people with snowboard bags, but nothing like the last two weekends Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Passed iiyama now and just soooo sunny. Fun to be had out there today I reckons if the snow down my end bears mY relation to the snow on the resort Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Ippy you headed to Nozawa? Pics from this morning there look great. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Sorry Chris......I would've IF I had gotten ur msg.....but SnowJapan thwarted me (��) Going to kags on Sunday, with a Shonan crew Oh, very sorry Tubby! Kagura should be good though I was rudderless yesterday....stuck with all this free time and didn't know how to fill it up Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Sorry Chris......I would've IF I had gotten ur msg.....but SnowJapan thwarted me (��) Going to kags on Sunday, with a Shonan crew Oh, very sorry Tubby! Kagura should be good though I was rudderless yesterday....stuck with all this free time and didn't know how to fill it up Haha, me too, I must have checked if it was back online 20 times or more 1 Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 same pretty sad isn't it Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I just want to know how good Ippy and everyone else got it today. If im stuck at work I'd sure like to know someone was getting good turns. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Fun day, waist to chest deep in the trees when er, you had to um boot pack it on piste surprising,y less fun. Way tracked out somehow. Basically stuck around slackcountrt stuffs today. Feeling more comfortable now reaching the middle line and decided my favorite way in us vua the mizunashi trees. Great fun in there. Totally untracked since everyone's either in tanuki or want to ride the chute on the middle from higher up. Cut in lower down and once you get past the gnarly bit, it flattens out leaving a yummy powder field on a nice pitch with fun trees. Good day... not much really to say though. Still mad busy, but it feels like they're thinning out now. So couple of weeks and resorts mine again. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Knackering day out on the slopes today but got introduced to Skyline at Happo-one and I don't think I've had that much fun with my clothes on in a looong time. Grinning from ear to ear. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I reckons tomorrow might be a day to check out sugadaira. Might even pull out the scope since I have this feeling its a day for just cruising (preconceptions already forming). Who wants to tell me its better than I assume? Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Cracking day at Tomamu. Shredding pow this morning then hitting the park once the sun came out in the afternoon. Snowing now, and looking forward to Sahoro in the morning. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Going to Kagura.....just hope the wind doesn't spoil things too much Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Tomorrow afternoon I will be off to Kiyosato for a few hours to work in my snow office. Its hard work but someone has to rip up the pow. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Good on you guys. I'll be working tomorrow but I'm happy to know that someone will be getting the goods. Smash up that beautiful pow for me Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Woohoo! Somehow I made the 7.39 train. Its off to sugadaira I go! There's a **** tonne of snow out there, and since sugadaira is a mere twenty clicks behind my house that info may in fact be relevant for a change. pity I have to travel twenty minutes to ueda and then another fifty or so minutes on the bus though to reach it. I had a look at the trail map yesterday... its annoyingly spread out. But there is a massive open face on it that looks fun. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 There's a proper storm blowing out there. Visibility is on the low side. In ueda I'd say its around 300m. The wind has all those little flags looking furious. Its war on snow. You can make out the sun though, so possibly it'll calm down. Eta: bus was super east to find. The stop is right outside the station. Its the first one you see. Bus is a local bus, so about twenty seats and nowhere to stick your boards... pack lightly when you come. almost no one on the bus though, but I have a feeling what with it being Sunday, that there's going to be a war for seats back home. Initial thoughts on the map and what I remember when I cycled it in summer.,. Davis looks like the best area, the pine whatsitsface looks completely separated and may require a shuttle to access which could be irritating. Lifts look short, veg is only about 400 meters, so that 6km downhill is going to be needing plenty of uphill if its going to claim that name... About 200m above the station now. Condition are mellowing Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Blowing a gale here I see Gala and the only part of Kagura open is Mitsumata. You guys iz nutters wanting to be out in this! But, have fun. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Me and sugadaira aren't really starting off as best friends :-) got off the but in the wrong place, turns out everyone else thought everyone else knew what they were doing... then I had to get two lifts up the hill to find a locker. The slopes themselves are perfect... if you're terrified of skiing or snowboarding. Just enough pitch to keep you moving, but pretty much wide open and flat. Gonna be a longish day I reckons. Fortunately ended up in Davos area so at least I'm not in the boonies part. But yeah, not a great start. Lockers, for them that's interested are at the base of lift 6 in a shack that says toilet on it dislike dislike dislike. Free ticket or not the place won't be getting much of a ringing endorsement. Its akakura onsen all over again Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Just get out there and then tell us at the end, ippy! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Shut up 1. I want updates at least every 5 minutes! It's the least ippy can do in this day and age. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Yep....bored to tears of mitsumata...snow is awesome but runs r short and limited Link to post Share on other sites
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