mattlucas 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Pictures to come but Fattwins and I went up to Tateyama for some backcountry skiing and it was amazing. We scored some pretty nice powder. It was about 10-15 cms deep. Really good. Saturday the weather was kind of the poops but we were able to skin up over 2800 metres. Had to boot up some really hard ice to a ridge but it was pretty fun. The ski down was difficult in the clouds but the powder was pretty nice. Sunday we awoke to bright blue ski and we spotted a beautiful line coming right off the summit of the 3000 metre peak Tateyama. 3 hours later and after a fun scramble up an icy ridge we were standing on the top and looking down at our line. The top part was pretty icy but lower down turned into really nice powder. AMAZING turns and a steep 700 metre descent back to camp A really good weekend and I'm sporting a funny burn just along the top of my eyebrows where I didn't lather up. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I heard youre gonna be blistering mate! Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 I was wearing a bandanna above my sunglasses so didn't lather up there but I guess it road up a bit and I got fried on my white winter forhead skin. Feels not so nice. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 take a pic and post it Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Powder. It still exists. Sounds great. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 God damn it! I really need to go for a ride really soon. Roll on winter......... Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by Yamakashi: take a pic and post it Not before a pic of you and your helmet goes up. I've still got a smile across my face from skiing powder at the end of April Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Got a pic of me and my helmet on the site Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 Well I have no way of getting a picture so you will just have to imagine Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 What a weekend toque! great weather on Sunday for sure. We bagged three very nice lines for sure. I do wish raichou zawa would have cleared up but them is the breaks. I want to hit that line again in clear weather. The chute slash face off of tateyama was pretty nice really long line too. top was all about keeping an edge, but it was great cause it felt like ontario again. That powder about 150meters down was sick too. super high speed type powder. I can still remember telling you on the radio to giver on the way down. Cant wait untill thursday man its gonna be good. Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Sounds like a fantastic trip! When we get a car Tateyama is definitely on the must-visit list. We managed to hook up a ride so this GW we are gonna hit up Mt. Shibutsu in the Oozei-area of Gunma. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Sounds good post some pics when you do. Ill post the pics from toque when I get them. My dumb butt forgot my digi cam at toques house along with my sunglasses. FF was in fine form almost running out of gas on a dark and lonely road to Toques house also. From Tokyo Montoya I would train it to nagano or matsumoto and bus it from there much easier to relax on the way home. Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Powder!!! Powder!!! Powder!!! I hate powder. Really Glad I could not go... Really looking forward to seeing the pics guys. Was it cold in the tent? Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 toque was fine all warm and toasty but the bag I had sucked poo. I was a bit cold and spent the nite in and out of sleep layering up. the nite cleared and the temp dropped to minus 6 and dried up all the snow. That helped to keep the powder nice at least untill we skied it. I figure by 1 or 2 alot of the snow was turning bad. Saw lots of avies at about 2200meters due to solar heating. friday might see a bit more of spring like weather. Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Bad luck with the sleeping bag. I wonder if some of these warm-up patches would have helped? What type of bag was it just out of curiosity? Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 I got it off of the inlaws. a down bag with a cover but it just didnt cut it. Im stepping it up to a better bag for thursday. I didnt think the temps would drop to -6 and neither did any one else. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 Fattwins skinning up towards the summit Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 This is what it's all about We woke up to this sunday morning We skied the obvious line off the summit from upper lookers right all the way back to where the picture is taken from Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 The snow walls from the bus Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 More mountains from camp. There was a group skiing off of the backside the day before. Turned out to be the guide we had met in November leading a group. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 The icy descent off the summit. I kind of went a different way as we could tell this line was icy. Mine was just as icy so Fattwins decided to ski this one. Made it look good but the sounds were not so nice. Just below where I was standing the snow turned to really nice fast powder. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 > Sunday we awoke to bright blue ski Two Canadains in a tent with bright blue ski above them. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 This japanese guy insisted on putting his Pocket Rockets in our tent. We didn't want it there at first but he was very persistant. We just gave in in the end Why you bother pointing crap out like that is beyond me but if it makes you cream in your pants pointing out spelling errors then by all means carry on Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 toque thanks for the pics I will clear my boxs out soon. A bit busy this week but looking forward to the next trip. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 Just sent you a load more Enjoy! Link to post Share on other sites
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