Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Nice pics!!!! Looks like lots of little fluffy white thingies everywhere! Saw some nice snow shots from around Japan on the tellie this morning. Looking good! Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 thanks for posting those pics toque they look good. Ill go get mine done on the weekend sorry too busy about to give a speech. Link to post Share on other sites
brett_jackson 0 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Great shots guys. Looks like you had fun. Just curiously, how far did you have to travel on foot before you could strap on the skis? Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Looks SICK as guys! Very jealous ... I would love to get into the backcountry more! The more I think about it the more I want to ride pow pow. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 30mins for the first 1000 vert or less run, but couldnt see the first half at all. others you can choose. short 300 to 700 foot vert lines you can lap up easy say 8 or more in a day. the biglines if your genki 2 max if your going home that day 3 if your the king of the mountain. Im not the king of the mountain and 2 might be pushing me. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Sounds like you did very well there Fatty. Toque's summer journals suggests he's no slouch at going uphill. Most of your off training has been sitting in a boat. Toque, send me a link to your summer pics kidcreole@japan.com Some inspirational stuff in the journals man. Well done. I was going to head up to Tateyama today, but I drove my missus to Nagano instead. The mountains were very cloudy all morning but the forecast suggested that it might just clear for a couple of pics before the last cable car back down. I suppose there's always spring.... As Telleboy says, snow last night and subzero now, so winter is upon us! Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 thats good news mr wiggles. we got lucky on our trip the clouds lifted up every now and again to let us have a good ride down. but the light was flat and most of the cameramen I saw had only their tripods out. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Author Share Posted December 2, 2004 I sent you my 7 day North Alps traverse and Kitadake hike. Hope you enjoy. If you want more I have albums for alomst all of my hikes. I get up the mountains fast in my hiking boots but slap ski boots on and I slow right down. Different muscles I guess. And for some of those lines that we skied you can pretty much slap your skis on out of the bus station. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 You wusses need to get yourselves to a slope with some lifts to ride under. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 I wish they put a lift in there Ocean I really do. it was freaky to see 10 meter high wood poles planted into the ground around the buildings. They were there so that the snow clearing machines wouldnt crash into the buildings come spring removeal time. Toque got the pics thanks for that not so busy today my thing went off well too no more presure. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Yamakashi kun you gonna come down and pick up the skis this week or next? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Author Share Posted December 2, 2004 Left side of the Murodo Plain with Tateyama Peak being the big one on the left. Wish I had looked at this pictures just before we went up there. So many more lines. Next year we are going to rip this place up Right side of the Murodo Plain with 3 of our ski lines marked in black and our camp site in red. The real tent area is right at the bottom. Looking up to where the top 2 photos were taken from the tent area at the bottom of photo number 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 it looks so much different when you can see eh. We will get are fair share of the goods next time though that is for sure. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Toque my thoughts I adjusted the 4th line on day 2 i think we hit it up a bit higher. Also te terrain shows maybe I couldve done my surf like turn in the adjusted line. Also added the first skin line in and then the out. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 Yah man You are right. I got our 4th line where we skinned up. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 it does help if you paste the picture in there you idiot fattwins Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 There you go You can even go in there and put our first line on the other picture Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 sweet - so jealous of your turns, the pics are great and so was your journal toque. You can even spell!! You spell checked it first didnt ya? Cant wait to get some turns. 18 days to go but whos counting! Still plenty of time for some huge dumps. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 I should spell check. Write it into word and then copy and paste. hmmm. But really I just read it over a few times and then post em up. Whose counting??????????? You have to say that?? I would be counting sleeps, minutes, hours, seconds, bike rides, movies, dinners, lunchs Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Thanks for the pics link. Great stuff. It looks like you camped next to the Murodo Hut (the one with the cam) and hit lots of north facing runs over by the onsen. I've never been over that side. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 That is exactly what we did. Really it was all we could see. Would have hit some bigger stuff if the weather had been better. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 At a place tateyama that gets enough snow to cover 2 story buildings.... you gotta expect alot of bad weather. I like the fact that all though I envy the guys who went off the top, we played it really safe and had no problems finding are way in sometimes horrible conditions. My idea of BC sking is to get the most fun if that means the bigline is there then Ill take it. If it means the the small stuff is all I can have then live to ski another day. April is not far away man. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 No snow lower down here, but it's a nice day. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 got my pictures back yesterday and Ill send them on later toque I forgot the cd at home. Youll be pleased to know that the piss picture didnt turn out. Shouldve used a flash damn it. Most of my pics sucked ass though. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 The piss pic would have been funny. Not like I was facing the camera. I guess you get what you paid for with the disosable cameras. Oh well. Next time I guess. Link to post Share on other sites
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