Ocean11 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Wada Toge WON'T be getting teleporters this year. It's official. No teleporters. In fact, Wode Toge won't be having lifts that move this year. They didn't more very fast last year either, but they won't move at all this year. This has been the word on the street for a while, and I just phoned the Wada Mura Municipal Office as there seems to be some snow up that way, and they tell me, in their rude, barely comprehensible yaffling way that the place is not going to open this year. Not 'nuff customers y'see? It might open again at some time, but matey up there in his no doubt overheated office reckons it won't be anytime soon. Wada Toge is a decent place. It's small, but it has 5 runs, each with a different flavour. The steepest is really quite hairy, and the others sweep down the hill with diminishing pitch. It's great for people who are learning. Then there's the unoffical back run that is never groomed and sprouts kickers. It is satisfyingly steep and quite long enough for the purpose. And there are some good trees to ride through too. But that's all going to go to waste from here on. I mean, how do they hope to increase customers by closing? The lady with the wart on her nose who insisted on popping out of the restaurant to yell 'You can't go there, you won't be rescued if you hurt yourself!' wasn't attracting customers. Nor was the grooming routine that seemed to start at 10 am on some days. Nor was the fact that it was pretty hard to find and didn't have easy directions online. Well, I think it's a damn shame. A local, thoroughly respectable snowboarding option is now no longer available. Look out Arai, you're next! Link to post Share on other sites
mani 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 That is a shame. First of many perhaps? Did they only just announce it. Perhaps they were investing too much in the teleporting technology - hopefully they'll pass it on. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Ocean, they're closed for the season is that? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Author Share Posted November 27, 2002 Well that's the official line, but I don't think they're going to be able to identify new demand if the place is closed for a season. So it looks like it's closed for the foreseeable... What they need is a 2-seat, coin operated lift - put your 100 yen in and it starts up. Groomers, rescue, who needs 'em in a place like that? Link to post Share on other sites
Antonio 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Elegy....nice one! That had me going to the dictionary. Could i suggest that perhaps Snow Japan has found a location from which the "Run your Own Resort" crew could launch their new product? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Author Share Posted November 27, 2002 Yes! YES! Great idea Antonio! We need people like you on the team. Massive salary, huge. Get up to Nagano on the next helicopter, sort out the paperwork later... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 First of many I am guessing. Japan is over and done with. Give it 10 years and you may as well live in Indonesia (well, not quite). Japan has big time goosed it up in Asia, they should be ashamed. The upshot of it all is that resorts are going to shut. Are there any resorts in China? 'cause marke my words, that country will be the Asian gravy train for the next 2 decades. They will eclipse the Japanese economy in size very soon. Ski China. Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 but its a... eulogy! I'd love to hear your elegy for the place, though. C'mon Ocean, let's hear you connect your heartfelt emotions to your literary past. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Yes Ocean, lets here your eulogy. But don't go to water on us, all sad and flabby around the jowls. Be stoic. Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 No No No, I want to hear an elegy!!! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 good point, come on Ocean. give us a poem composed in elegiac couplets. A poem especially as a lament for a deceased ski resort. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Author Share Posted November 28, 2002 Tighten your seatbelts for some serious pedantry here, ignoramuses. The following brought to you by Merriam Webster's Main Entry: el·e·gy Etymology: Latin elegia poem in elegiac couplets, from Greek elegeia, elegeion, from elegos song of mourning 1 : a poem in elegiac couplets 2 a : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead Main Entry: eu·lo·gy Etymology: Middle English euloge, from Medieval Latin eulogium, from Greek eulogia praise, from eu- + -logia -logy 1 : a commendatory formal statement or set oration 2 : high praise Now, although I have some praise for Wada Toge, it's principally the terrain that I have loved and lost, and that I now mourn. So what I sing, thickies, is an elegy. I have no high praise, and only contempt for the people responsible for it closing. As deebee no doubt has for the people who screwed up the Japanese economy, and which I share heartily. OK, I admit this is something of a set oration, but as the author of it, I get to choose whether its an elegy or eulogy. PS, anyone heading to Hakuba tomorrow? I'm going... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Geeez, first you call us all ignorant. Then thick..... and then you tell us you are going to Hakuba tomorrow to ride the no doubt 50cm of fresh snow on the summit! I hate you! Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Poetry and song take a ... dive? Mr elastic I wish Link to post Share on other sites
TeleSkier 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Just got up to Hakuba about an hour ago - lots of snow and still coming down. Should be good tomorrow-hope the winds stay away though. Most likely be at Hakuba 47/Goryu. Might need those gondolas tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 ocean11... perhaps you could get Peters to drive a snowmobile up and down wada toge for you....or does that not fit his job description either.... danz Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 If yer drive a snowmobile, better be armed... Link to post Share on other sites
mani 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 And I was so looking forward to the Wada Experience Link to post Share on other sites
LARD 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 What was it REALLY like then this Wada Toge place. Just like any of the other 200 little tiny places struggling to keep open? Link to post Share on other sites
guzzler 0 Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Never heard of the place. Sounds like a treat we can't enjoy anymore. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted November 29, 2002 Share Posted November 29, 2002 So sorry to hear that. And I was all up for it too. I'm sure they'll sell the teleporting tech and re-open soon enough. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 29, 2002 Author Share Posted November 29, 2002 LARD, what are you REALLY like then? Are you in fact a big block of pigfat useful for making pastry, or are you just one of the many people posting here under an assumed name? I already told you what the place is like... Link to post Share on other sites
nagoid 4 Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 And I never made it there. OH well. have to stick to dumps like Nozawa, Hakuba, Myoko et al Link to post Share on other sites
Blizzzard 0 Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 I'm actually surprised that we don't hear of more places closing down, got to happen surely. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 No news of any other places going down (oo-er) or not opening. Link to post Share on other sites
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