Snow in Japan

[Fattwins 0]

Toque I might have a line on a pair of TNF gortex zip pants, butt and legs for 50 bucks cdn. now when you decide to sell your jacket im set up prefectly.

[mattlucas 0]

Did I say I was selling my jacket?

[Fattwins 0]

I thought it was up for grabs at 5000 yen plus a smile and a happy face.

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[mattlucas 0]

and a special favour in the tent if I remember correctly

[Fattwins 0]

thats why we are bring your girl along next time I thought? I was gonna try to be like PN. She can hump in the food and cook for the lads when we come back down.

[mattlucas 0]

Mid July and still skiable lines on Tsurugi near Tateyama. On my weekend I was hiking on continuous snow down to nearly 1500 metres. Amazing.

 

This couloir starts just before the main summit climb

 

It cleared up just a bit further down the valley so this is the top of the previous picture

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Tsurugizawa

This is where you usually camp when climbing Tsurugi. A nice line off the summit in the back there which is at about 2800 metres. Snow went down this valley and stopped around 1800 metres. Most of the way in the narrow valley out of picture the snow was continuos and very very deep

 

[mattlucas 0]

Lower part of the classic line off the summit of Tsurugi that FT wants next spring

 

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I thought that it would be cool to ski off of Tsurugi next year and then traverse out this valley. Looks a wee bit challenging to get skis along this

 

The last day of my hike out to Keyakidaira in Toyama. This was the trail for almost 5 hours. Intense.

 

 

[Fattwins 0]

dude I aint sking that without being roped up for sure. that is the most intense climb Ive seen here. were there many people.

[montoya 0]

man, looks like a pretty good-sized cliff! glad it didn't rain on ya.

[Fattwins 0]

Toque are you serious about wanting to skin that?

[mattlucas 0]

I thought it might make a good exit.

But when I was hiking it relized that it's quite a dangerous route. It's out now as a route.

I was glad it didn't rain as well. I wouldn't have been able to do parts of it if the rivers I had to cross were any higher

 

I was alone for 2 of the 3 days. Not another hiker in sight. Very remote and unmaintained area.

[Fattwins 0]

Dude did you get the willies?

[mattlucas 0]

I did because it was a hiking trail so I was trying to go fast. If it were a rock route then I would have been planning each move but as it was a flat trail I wanted to make some distance.

Would have been nice to have somebody on the "interesting" parts but couldn't wrangle anybody into coming.

[Fattwins 0]

I can se why no one wanted to go that is a billy goat trail. Did you find that via the map and where did you park your car.

[montoya 0]

dude you and fattwins should be writing articles for the outdoors magazines like Outside, Powder, or even Yamakei. get published and get famous.

[Fattwins 0]

If I could write regular engrish I might think about it.

[mattlucas 0]

I parked at Tateyama station

and then from the exit took this touristy open sided train north to near the town of Kurobe and then local trains back to Tateyama Station

[mattlucas 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by montoya:
dude you and fattwins should be writing articles for the outdoors magazines like Outside, Powder, or even Yamakei. get published and get famous.

That would be cool
My writing isn't very good and I'm not so good with a camera
Maybe something in the future

[Fattwins 0]

then you would have to come back here

[mattlucas 0]

I don't think anybody is going to have to twist my arm too much to come back to this country

 

I do need a good long vacation of many years away from it though

[Fattwins 0]

You going river swimming today?

[mattlucas 0]

No. But I should be

I want to load some pics onto Ofoto and that will take my entire afternoon working through them. And my bathroom is horrible smelling so I think I will clean that.