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When do the crowds really kick in? Over Dec 24, 25, 26 or after NYE?

 

I have managed to get the 3 key xmas days off work this year and thought I would go to the mtns for xmas. This will of course be an incalculable improvement on last years xmas period which was spent in a very empty office and Tokyo on my own.

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last year when i was out the few days before and after xmas, the slopes were empty. at first the snow was crap, but it started dumping on the 24th i believe and we got pow for boxing day. work holiday doesnt start til the 27th, so thats when it'll probably get busy.

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There will be no one on the slopes around then.

 

On analysis of the last 3 seasons

2000 - dumped about 1.5m (at my house so approx 2x more on the slopes) on Christmas day and coverd the car so that there was not one single bit showing.

2001 - Boxing day evening the dump arrived and just kept coming until about the 17th Jan

2002 - Christmas evening it started and didnt end until well into Jan

 

so by my (crude) analysis you should be sweet. Be paitent my son

 

and personally I dont think there are THAT many people on slopes at NYrs. I think a feb weekend is much much worse

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What a shame you still dont have that place in Nozawa!

 

My life has actually turned around a little with the discovery that tuesday 23 dec is also a public hol.

 

Pitty I cant get the monday off.

 

ps - for any one that cares, when I go away it costs more to board my dog in Tokyo than to board myself in the mountains!!

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db: We may be heading away ourselves at that time, but we won't pull the trigger until mid-December. If we end up being stuck in Tokyo, we'd be willing to take in your homeless pooch at no cost. Touch base with me in mid-December.

 

Of course, he would have to deal with the bitch that shares our place with us...

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I ate gyoza for my very quick dinner on the way home last night. Quickest 3 beers and gyoza I have ever consumed.

 

Goemon: thks for the offer. Very cool. No comment on that bitch you live with though. ;\)

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db: Lloyd would be more welcome than those two smelly, flea-infested mongrels we had at our place recently; I'm sure you'll agree since you experienced it yourself last night. ;\)

 

"Gyoza" are sometimes called Chinese dumplings in other parts of the world:

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