Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Night buses are awful for sleeping but that first ride is usually enough to get the adrenaline to wipe away the sleepiness. You get there for first lifts and sometimes for sunrise!! You tend to wait around every 2nd or 3rd road stop for an hour or so on the way up there, then depending where u go, u have to sit on the bus in the car park till the resort actually opens. Day bus......waste of time IMO, u get there about 10.30-11am and then leave about 3.30-4..... Waste of time. Best option is deffo the shink, fast, comfortable and not much more expensive than the night buses Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 After that snow we had we now have a sharp frost and as they bulldozed all the roads, which has left them wet they are all now like an ice rink everywhere with the new snow frozen onto the old snow, should make for some interesting driving tomorrow morning! I think in some ways leaving some snow on the roads is less slippery than scraping it all off and leaving the roads wet so they become icy. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hmm, it is snowing again here! Not supposed to either so doubt it will be much, but who knows... Link to post Share on other sites
u-tan 2 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Peetan, Mick and Tully, Thanks for the info. I will look into that overnight train to Aizu Takatsue/Takahata. That is an interesting option that I didn't know about. I will miss being nearish to the small but almost never crowded resorts up here though. For what it is worth, brutal, stoke dissolving rain outside right now. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Snow at last! Looks like about 10+cm outside and coming down now too. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Snowing in Sapporo.....a bit windy tho Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Yesterday was so miserable with heavy rain for pretty much all of it. Good to see snow back and the kind that delivers cm. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunma Boarder 14 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Maybe 3cm here over night but I'm not sure if it was falling or more blowing out of the mountains. Snow is now definitely blowing out of the mountains. It is also pretty dry. Looks like the kind of day that delivers the goods Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hope so.....I'm en-route to Teine Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Teine Highland is on wind hold.....only the paradise lift running and after 1 run that's enough of that I could scoot down to Olympia for a few mellow turns but after about 30 mins I'd be bored with that....currently having a coffee and hoping the winds die down Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Hike it! Did that last year when I was fed up with a morning on wind hold. Had a dream run down bowl 1, totally untracked and deep! Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 & naked, of course ;-) Link to post Share on other sites
MagSeven 40 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Yes, clothing optional, and definitely not encouraged. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Just did a few short hike laps of paradise and the lookers left slope......fresh tracks of course but heavy, wind packed snow.....not really encouraging me to further exert myself Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Was this fully clothed? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Of course not!! Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Sporron-clad I trust!! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 Take the bagpipes as well, be the Lone Piper up at the top there. And of course eat some haggis once finished. And a deep fried Mars bar. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 There was a hairy bag n pipe on show.....dunno if you'd wanna play it tho Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 No thanks!!! Take the bagpipes as well, be the Lone Piper up at the top there. And of course eat some haggis once finished. And a deep fried Mars bar. Can we please have some piccies to go with those stereotypes!? & any thoughts on my Myoko news??? Link to post Share on other sites
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Mick Rich 78 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 That's more like it!! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 After yesterdays nice new snow it has been sunny here but nice and cold lovely weather to be out skiing although I am working got to much to do and tomorrow so will be the weekend before I get out. Skiing Saturday and competing in a ski race Sunday. Link to post Share on other sites
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