This storm began as rain at valley floor Friday night (3/24), with snow accumulating up high. Saturday night precipitation got quite a bit heavier, and snow fell to the valley … Read More

  The Giri-Giri Boys are an informal group of Japanese alpine climbers who have been ticking off some of the biggest peaks and baddest routes around the world in recent … Read More

For once, it sounds like snow totals in Japan are falling short of those around North America (glad that everyone is finally getting some). However, that is not to say … Read More

Rad Films understands something that few “production” companies get. People don’t want to see Five minute clips with Four minutes of  brobra skiers talking about what it’s like to ski … Read More

Don’t pack up the powder skis just yet, because it’s still winter in Hakuba. After a temporary lapse into spring-like conditions, winter is back, with a foot and a half of … Read More

…especially if you live in the Western USA where this winter has struggled to even be noticeable.  These Swedish boys spent 5 weeks in Hakuba, Japan and hit it perfectly. … Read More

Jones Snowboards rider Miikka Hast put together a nice POV video of his trip to Hokkaido and Niigata Prefecture this winter. It is all POV, but it is really worth … Read More

Exactly one year ago today, the three part disaster of  an earthquake, tsunami, and multi-reactor meltdown devastated Japan’s population, infrastructure and economy. On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake ever … Read More

This is a very un-japan-like  video. Blue sky and lines that could double in a Alaska picture book are the last thing people think of when they hear Japow. But … Read More

This is a collection of Powdermania’s favorite photos from a recent trip to Hokkaido, Japan. Powdermania.com is the hard work of Swiss photographer Patrick Fux. For years, Patrick has been … Read More

MSP just released the second episode of their POV webisode series, Contour Moments. This one features Sean Petit, Richard Permin, and Riley Leboe in Niseko, Japan. It looks like they … Read More

Here in Hakuba, the end of February tends to mark the conclusion of powder season and the beginning of spring. With the forecast looking decidedly unwinter-like for a couple of … Read More

Anyone who visits Hokkaido dreams of skiing the stacks of avalanche barriers that line many of the mountain roads.This video is all shot on the sides of roads in the … Read More

You kinda just have to watch this one.  The opening is some pretty impressive AV work to get the 2013 Atomic Bent Chetler in those Lord of the Rings shots. … Read More

After a few fantastic days of powder skiing under sunny skies last week, the forecast for Hakuba began to look much more gloomy (rainy). Not yet ready to give up … Read More

A recent period of high pressure in Hakuba yielded conditions that were pretty much perfect. Sunny and clear, good snow, and reasonable stability. It has been really good to ski … Read More

Recent high pressure in Hakuba has presented the opportunity to ski some of the bigger lines in the valley. We decided to take the opportunity and go after the Y … Read More

While waiting for the sky to pop blue and the snow to become stable the resorts around Hakuba were an all you can eat buffet of faceshot. We stayed inbounds … Read More

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 … Read More

This POV video is from the past two days in Hakuba Japan.  Hakuba has finally gotten a cycle of sunshine for the first time since New Year’s.  Aussie boys Luke Kneller, … Read More

Shooting in Hakuba backcountry JPN. we late woke up. couple of skier and snowboarder rode a slope when we hiking.we wants ride that… so we have to go far way … Read More

This is Takume Oike’s edit for 2011, filmed and produced by Mighty Jamming. Oike-san lives in Hakuba, but this segment was shot last winter in various spots on Hokkaido. Oike drops … Read More

  here is today’s HAKUBA CORTINA ski area. I ski with Jake Cohn and Mile Clark. that is POWDER.  Little blue bird in morning. north face’s snow was awesome.YES!! 朝のうちは天気良。次第に風雪強まる。気温は体感で低め。 … Read More

Car Danchi, which literally means “car apartment”, is a seres of basic yet magnificent snowboard films by Neil Hartmann that follows a society of Japanese freeriders who live in their … Read More

In Japan, vending machines are everywhere. The majority of them sell simple things like soda, coffee, or beer. However, some offer much, much more. Here is a list of the … Read More

my friends Ryuya Yoshida studied math for bungee jumping. you see the Japanese man. his math is off. he looks the jumper “Mike Willson”   この数日、白馬にてスキーヤーの取材。メンバーの一人で輪ゴムで手作りのバンジージャンプをしたり、立山で特大のジャンプを繰り広げてきた吉田竜弥。