Snow Forecast was calling for light snow all day today, with 1 cm falling in the morning, and 1 cm in the afternoon. Personally, I took the opportunity to sleep in a bit, not expecting to find much on the hill.
Exclusionist Japanese signs. Photo Lee Lyon, Confused Skier Zach Paley.
However, conditions were a bit better than the 2cm of fresh forecasted today. We had a fresh 50cm of the lightest snow that has fallen so far this year.
Powder turns through avalanche barriers. Photo Zach Paley, Skier Lee Lyon.
It snowed hard all morning and into the early afternoon. The sun started to show itself later in the day, but the snow remained surprisingly light and unaffected.
Pillow lines starting to fill in. Photo Zach Paley, Skier Lee Lyon.
Overall, a day that started with low expectations turned into to one of the better ones on the season thus far.
Caked. Photo Zach Paley.
More Pillows. Photo Zach Paley, Skier Lee Lyon.
Zach's turn. Photo Lee Lyon, Skier Zach Paley.
One more. Photo Zach Paley, Skier Lee Lyon.
Late afternoon, with the lights on. Photo Zach Paley.
With my fluency in Japanese, I will give you the correct translation. “To ensure the safety meeting of all snowboarders, skiers not ride lift.” The untranslated section at the bottom is the real kicker, because most think it’s a Thank You from Mgmt. This may hurt a few of you, but it makes me want to go back to Japan like yesterday. It states, “You are not huge in Japan. It was better when you hated us.”
Can we annexe it, like Hawaii. Then just build an interstate …..
Think it is time to plan a trip for next week.
once there, what are the good spots to hit? doing some reaserch thre is a good amount of terrian there, just no “knowledge” of where to go for the goods……
Was thinking the same thing, the region is huge. Where’s are the best locations in the valley? Please help!
A lot of what I ski is accessed from the Happo-One ski resort in Hakuba. Not going to give away much more than that! Come explore…
Way to get out there and live the dream, I’ve always wanted to go shred Japan.
Stoked on those freshies ya’ll scored.
I just hope we can get more then just radioactive raindrops over here Northwest. Send us some of that sweet sweet snow.
Oh wait, did I see 3rd in the nation snowpack?
That’s right, Baker Baby…