SnowJapan.Com#3 0 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 A new Setting Journals feature - "White Season 2005-2006 Report" - has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-28.html "Summer 2005 in Japan was the kind where tarmacs at airports soften to the point that loaded down planes sometimes get stuck & need to be pulled free. There was little respite from the heat during daytime, but nights began to cool significantly. Occasionally a typhoon would blow over the Japanese archipelago, cooling things down at the upper elevations. A few years back in September the resort hosted a country music festival (featuring Roseanne Cash, The Charlie Daniels Band & others) on a neighboring plateau about 1,000 meters above sea level. The bands that day (who had been expecting to play at the resort) froze in the typhoon at that elevation. Upon return to the resort, a shivering band member came off the bus and immediately asked for directions to the nearest bar (whiskey was required to warm her up). The Plateau concerned actually closes each winter due to the amount of snow there, & is only accessible via Pisten Bully..." http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-28.html Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not necessarily those of Snow Japan. Discuss it here... Link to post Share on other sites
97 0 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 We are going again to Arai this coming week, really looking forward to it. I'm happy to hear there is a lot of snow left! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Quote: At the start of the month the mountain base had no snow but a little over two weeks later it was a solid 2.5 meters. I remember those days Link to post Share on other sites
Blair 0 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Hello 97 The lifts are to open an hour earlier April 10 - 16, so try to make the most of it. brit-gob Glad that you remember December 2005 too! I wonder for how many years it will be talked about. People in the area still talk about Winter of 1986... Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 So what was 86 all about then? Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Quote: For years I had pestered management to bring Santa to the resort, but it never came about until this year. Were you Santa, Blair? I hope he went out skiing as well.... Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Pics please. Link to post Share on other sites
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