Fattwins 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 anyone know anyone selling or any good sites or links even links to yahoo auctionsb Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Hey FF, for you 100,000 post SJ will buy you one. why dont you ask tatsu? And theres no place in Hakuba/Nagano that doesnt sell em? My mates got 2 in Hiroshima... Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 i'll ask a mate of mine, he got one from somewhere recently i think hey you could ask rappie, order one from him lol Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 what?? You need a link to yahoo auctions?? WTF? Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 yep i just checked i rappie is selling off last years snowmobiles on the cheap, check them out they are parked round the back. bp he needed a letter with a phone number on it from yahoo bb personally delivered to his house by me, rather than just looking on the website anyway, i will ask a friend who will know places to get snowmobiles. do you think many people have them in japan? what about approaching the ski resorts, they might have one they want to sell? Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 My firend who works for a NPO researching forest dwelling mammals in Japan has been stidying the increased use of snowmobiles in winter times, mainly in Hokkaido (similar studies have been done in Canada also). He found that the use of them over about 4 years has been increasing quite significantly and has increased winter mortality of large mammals due to wildelife displacement and expanded home ranges therefore meaning more energy expended and the loss of land normally used by these mammals, for example bears. Also samller mammals have been effected by the compacting and erosion of the subnivean spaces (space between snowpaack and ground surface) as they depend on this for winter survival. Snow compaction often prolongs the melting of the snow also and thus leads to muddy trails and roads, which are then highly susceptible to significant damage and enlargement. For the same reason, snow compaction can lead to altered melting and discharge regimes, further increasing soil erosion. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 damn snowmobiles! Yet another way we **** up the environment without really realizing what we are doing eh! Link to post Share on other sites
chop 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 check these guys out 3w go - nsa. or search niseko snowmobiles Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 Im at a loss of what to type in japanese for Yahoo auction BP. My wife wanted the letter so she could better understand what she was calling about ebc, ie we had no net at home then. I want a mobile for the resorts that are closing down not to access anything else. That will have low impact on the environment. Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 yes no worries just joking ok i just emailed my friend to ask what they call snowmobile in japanese... Link to post Share on other sites
KRUSTY 2 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Try this.... http://list4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/25238-category-leaf.html?alocale=0jp&mode=2&apg=1 If it doesnt work do a search for "SKIDOO" and you should be able to find a few. Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 old skool http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/94478175 Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 How about one of these? Standing quarter mile in 8 seconds. That way you'll be at the top of the mountain so fast, you'll have very little environmental impact. Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 these are environmentally friendly i think Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 C'mon Fats, do your touring on foot, stay close to the snow. It would take little more than 2 hours to skin to the summit of Arai from the carpark. Its hardly steep, its a hill with 950m of vert. You wouldn't even need to maintain 10m/min of vertical rise. It couldn't be easier. In response to global warming and rising fuel prices some resorts will shut, others will access higher and colder terrain to make a quid. Guess how they will do it? With helicopters and sleds. Doesn't make much sense. The Swiss are already about to roll-over to less restricted heli drops in an attempt to maintain ski industry revenue. Although I use some of their services and facilities, I dislike the ski tourism industry (resorts, lifts, heli-guides) Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 i LOVE it - that's the answer, get a pack of husky dogs to pull you up the hill. screw skins, i'm buying dogs woooo Link to post Share on other sites
chop 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 check these guys out , they have sleds 4 sale www.go-nsa.com maybe abit $$ Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 thats a good start thanks Link to post Share on other sites
ianbc 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 nick make sure you get a pow machine, most sleds are gonna be useless in fresh hakuba pow. those scandics(in the links) are work horses but not the sled for the deep stuff. wide tracks and big lugs (2inch) and power ... a600 and up, better around 800. unless you like digging all day and throwing your back out. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 i was thinking a resort wide track would be ok for a start Link to post Share on other sites
ianbc 0 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 not sure what skidoos there using but resorts usally run on groomed roads and packed runs, if the resorts is closed there wont be any groomed roads or runs. just something to think about. but a great idea to get sleddin'. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Quote: for you 100,000 post SJ will buy you one. Only about another 90,100 to go then Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Got this ad posted on the company board. Might be of interest to you: Helcopter: - 2nd hand in good condition - full set document will be provided - price around HKD4.5M (CIF South East Asia) negotiable - Helicopter is in Gold coast, Australia at the moment we're not even an aviation company. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 thats funny Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Fats, I am being a bit annoying by pushing my point here (lost of people on the forum ignore me when it suits them, don’t worry). But are you really going to use a snowmobile to tour Arai? If so I’ll call you on that one: you can’t shoot down Niseko for being a small gentle hill and then turn around and use a sled to tour Arai, which is in the same gentle hill category as Niseko (with a cliff thrown in.) You could skin up either hill and ride back down in time for lunch. I would understand a little more if you had a 10km approach along a 15 degree glacier or an alluvial valley to access some serious descents, but that isn’t the case. Arai is a local pimple, not mile after mile of terrain. (perhaps for another topic, but has anyone ventured the terrain visible from the summit of Arai, looking over the back and to the left. I recall that looked pretty steep and unquestionably deep. Certainly a lot better than the Arai front side) Link to post Share on other sites
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