The Blister crew just put up a quality video from their recent trip to Niseko. It looks like they had pretty amazing conditions for the whole trip. The video is all POV, but still worth a watch. Especially enjoyable was the Lincoln Loop (?) at 2:30, and punching the mostly buried chairs at 2:53. If you haven’t heard of Blister Gear Review, they write some of the best gear reviews around, and no doubt will be soon be telling us what skis to use for slaying the Hokkaido blower.

Incidentally, Unofficial is currently in the process of invading Hokkaido. Stay tuned for plenty of deep pow photos and videos, but here is a little tease from today:

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Pillows in Furano.

Photo courtesy of Patrick Fux. For more shots from Japan check out Patrick’s site, Powdermania, as well as Powdermania.com on Facebook.

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Lee Lyon is the primary author and contributor to Unofficial Japan. Lee has done seasons in Utah, Colorado, Switzerland, India, Japan and Argentina. He has now settled down to split his winters between Hakuba, Japan and Las Lenas, Argentina.

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