Poster: A snowHead
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That's what we like to hear! I was getting worried that it seems to be quite a dry season, for Niseko in particular, I can see Kiroro has been getting consistent goods, hope this pattern of snow continues for the next month!
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I have a question please for anyone familiar with Haneda airport - I am taking my snowboard bag with me and have 1hr 55mins between flight landing and the flight to Sapporo in the domestic terminal, I am just wondering firstly how quickly the baggage is generally dealt with there (having experienced some long delays at places like Geneva) and is oversized luggage brought in on the belts like at Gatwick or through another area?
Secondly the transfer to the domestic terminal, do the buses have luggage areas like a coach that would fit a snowboard bag or should I be thinking of another way to transfer between terminals due to the size of my bag?
This all might seem simple stuff but I worry I will encounter problems after travelling almost 24 hours (I leave home 7amish Friday and land Haneda 1pm Saturday!) and would like to be as prepared as possible as may not be thinking clearly.
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@Minion1980, The oversized bags on my flight were delivered to the same arrivals hall, but in an area to the side. No problems transferring with my 2m bag.
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@PowderAdict, Awesome thanks, that's good to know, nothing worse than not knowing where your bag is going to be, happened at the main Geneva terminal once, it was chaos and there were lots of people who didn't know where we were picking up our ski bags from, I imagine they should hopefully be a bit more organised in Japan
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element wrote: |
Today was unreal. It's all true! Face shots all morning. Was pretty tracked out in the obvious places by about 11am, but was still a lot of fun. Steady light-moderate snow at the minute. |
+1
Top lifts on windhold at Kiroro today (Thursday 12th), but lower mountain was giving over the head shots for fun.
Great first day back on Fantasy Island 👍
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@Mike Pow, Awesome!
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See you next week maybe!
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@Mike Pow, again, Awesome!
Did you have to duck ropes or exit gates to access that?
I've been considering my plans and am now hoping to split my time fairly equally between Niseko/Rusutsu and Kiroro over the 9 days I have available for boarding.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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New toys at work - Drove both of them to their current location
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@Minion1980, we missed our connection to sapporo as london-tokyo flight was delayed by half an hour. They just stuck us on the next flight half an hour later. Our bags didnt make that flight, but they came on the next flight not long after. Still made our original bus transfer and no extra charges. Dont worry!
Hirafu today was a bit mental. The first bus to hanazono drove past us full so we took the ace quad. There was a massive queue 15mins before it opened and it was tracked to bits instantly. Gonna look at a guided backcountry day to make the most of this recent snowfall.
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You know it makes sense.
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@element, sorry to hear that, half an hour and you missed the connection, worrying I have a stop in Frankfurt too, still it sound slike it was resolved with ease. Bag not arriving with your plane is worrying, happened to me when I went to Sauze via Turin and my bag was dumped on the street outside my hotel at some point during the evening! Glad you got there ok.
How long are you out for, are you planning to take day trips to near by resorts? Also these queues, once dispersed did the mountain feel busy? Like French resort busy?
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Sorry! I do have a very short memory, I had a very miss spent youth, apologies!
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Minion1980, As far as I am aware that is what your youth is for
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Minion1980 wrote: |
@Mike Pow, again, Awesome!
Did you have to duck ropes or exit gates to access that?
I've been considering my plans and am now hoping to split my time fairly equally between Niseko/Rusutsu and Kiroro over the 9 days I have available for boarding. |
Cheers.
I don't duck ropes.
No, all within resort off-piste terrain
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Dabber wrote: |
nice day for intro to touring |
Well played 👍
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Over a meter of fresh in the last 24hrs. But piste only. Naeba has silly/strict boundary rules , human powered is no go and mechanized toys burried
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It looks like Honshu is being absolutely hammered the last few days, while very cold and quite dry across Hokkaido. Currently on the plane flying from Tokyo to Chitose (with free wi-fi!) and you can see the snow clouds rolling over the central mountain ranges of Honshu. Looks very white down there. Hope we can find some good stuff in Hokkaido still despite this!
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Its absolutely hammering down in niseko at the minute. At a rough estimate about 10cm has accumulated from 10am till now. Crazy!
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musehead wrote: |
It looks like Honshu is being absolutely hammered the last few days, while very cold and quite dry across Hokkaido. Currently on the plane flying from Tokyo to Chitose (with free wi-fi!) and you can see the snow clouds rolling over the central mountain ranges of Honshu. Looks very white down there. Hope we can find some good stuff in Hokkaido still despite this! |
You'll be OK. Face shots at Kiroro today.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Mike Pow, glad you're getting it good over there!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the conditions at Furano are poor at the moment. Was expecting sidecountry areas to be tracked but even the untracked areas up to an hour's skin away from the lifts are heavy and dense - there's no powder here right now. Nothing of note in the forecast for the next week+, this area needs a serious reset.
We may head to Asahidake tomorrow, which apparently had some snow last night but also very high winds. We're considering cutting our losses here in Hokkaido and going down to ski the Nagano/Nigata resorts instead. Which would be a shame in some ways as I really like Hokkaido - but powder comes first!
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Unusually warm inNiseko, and rather less snow so far this season than is normal.
There was some genuine powder to be found yesterday, but mostly the off-piste was mid boot deep and a little heavy.
Stll lovely to ski though.
Today I am off to Moiwa while The Lad is skinning up Mount Yotei...a quick 6 hour skin up....those days are in my past!
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You know it makes sense.
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Didn't get to Moiwa...missed the bus!
Niseko was good though, about 10-20 cm of fresh overnight, very little wind and not too cold.
Mt Yotei was very tough...The Lad does Olympic Triathlons and said those are a lot easier
They are knackered...
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musehead wrote: |
@Mike Pow, glad you're getting it good over there!
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the conditions at Furano are poor at the moment. Was expecting sidecountry areas to be tracked but even the untracked areas up to an hour's skin away from the lifts are heavy and dense - there's no powder here right now. Nothing of note in the forecast for the next week+, this area needs a serious reset.
We may head to Asahidake tomorrow, which apparently had some snow last night but also very high winds. We're considering cutting our losses here in Hokkaido and going down to ski the Nagano/Nigata resorts instead. Which would be a shame in some ways as I really like Hokkaido - but powder comes first! |
Thanks for the heads up.
Hope you get your fix
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rungsp wrote: |
Unusually warm inNiseko, and rather less snow so far this season than is normal.
There was some genuine powder to be found yesterday, but mostly the off-piste was mid boot deep and a little heavy.
Stll lovely to ski though.
Today I am off to Moiwa while The Lad is skinning up Mount Yotei...a quick 6 hour skin up....those days are in my past! |
Very unseasonal weather at the moment. Snow is forecast and can't come soon enough.
Even so, I've skied boot top to knee the past three days at Kiroro and Asari.
Asari was particularly enjoyable today. Mellow terrain down to the golf course. Untracked all day, boot top creamy powder. Fast.
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Had a good day today at Asahidake. Weather was clear so we hiked to the top. Light winds although was cold on the peak. The snow was very wind scoured above the tree line, some of the biggest sastrugi on the way down I've ever had to tackle! Lower down, we found some deep soft snow in the sheltered forest area to the skiers right of the ropeway (a short steep pitch) although it was pretty heavy, not really powder.
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We are staying in niseko at this moment, the powder is very hard to find. Dus any one have a good tip?
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@john hoeben, go to Kiroro....it is getting a different micro-climate and looks like it is just getting more.
We are in Niseko too at the moment and are day-tripping there tomorrow.
Get the tickets from the Welcome Center...costs jpy7,500 including the lift pass.
Tomorrows bus is full though...we got the last places.
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We have just changed our plans...next stop was supposed to be Furano but we have cancelled that and booked into Otaru and we will use that as a base to go to Kiroro and various other micro resorts.
After that Sapporo is a base for a few days for places near there.
The forecast looks much, much better for this new combination.
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We went there yesterday a lot of touring groups, but also there it was much tracked out.
Now first a beer at tamashii
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Took a daytrip to kiroro yesterday. It might be the most picturesque ski resort ive ever been to. We found some nice snow in the trees off nagamine lift, but its been a bit thin on the ground the last few days. Looks like tomorrow might be the day.
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@element has it been dumping today?
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Im staying in Niseko and im in Tamashii too at the minute so im not sure about kiroro today. Forecast looks good for tomorrow though. Im wearing an orange down jacket with yellow zips, say hello if u see me!
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I dont see you? Blue hoody. And the guy with wepowder beany
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