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Let's get this fired up for the 2011/2012 season in Hokkaido. The first snow fell up on Asahidake last night!
It'll be a while before we have regular snow updates, but it's nice to see winter is on its way!
Looks like quite a few Snowheads are heading out here this year, lets hope for another amazing winter!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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 and not even going there this year, save some of it till 2013
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Excellent.
Keep 'em coming please.
Hitting the island just after Boxing Day this year
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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MagSeven, nice off-season photos.
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Snow up on Yotei last night.
Feeling very autumnal everywhere now.
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Yotei this morning
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Great view from the balcony this morning of the hills behind Sapporo
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Snow across the ranges all over Hokkaido nowadays - even some down in Nagano when I was there a week ago... Time to dust off the gear and start getting fit!
This season in Japan will rock! Many of the non-skiing Hong Kong types will stay away so nowhere's going to be crowded at all... plus there's deals going with everyone at the moment so you can get some great accomm specials anywhere you want to go.
Mountains of pow? Fewer people? Better rates? What's not to love ?!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Not really much cover other than on the big boys up in Taisetsuzan and a few patches elsewhere. There have been occasional flurries around the place, but any snow usually melts within a few hours once the sun hits it. Most of the mountains are a gorgeous red/orange as the leaves are all changing colour. A beautiful season!
'Yuki mushi' (snow bugs, tiny white flies that look like snowflakes) are all over the place, they're said to signal that the snow is just around the corner!
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Not alot to report from the past week or so other than the lovely weather. The odd flurry here and there, but nothing significant. The temps are still too high for anything to stick around.
Kurodake is scheduled to open next weekend, but that isn't going to happen - look at the picture below!
Nothing to get too concerned about, it seems ski areas are overly optimistic with their advertised opening dates here. (although last year a rogue snowstorm allowed Nakayama Touge to open for Halloween weekend)
Sunny weather forecast for this week, but temperatures are dropping daily. Will update more as soon as there's any decent snowfall.
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You know it makes sense.
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How is snow in Japan around New Year usually?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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MagSeven, quick question, do you know if the Mammut Pro Shop n Hokkaido is selling the Mammut Snowpulse airbags???
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Timmaah wrote: |
| How is snow in Japan around New Year usually? |
On Hokkaido it's normally rock 'n roll.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snowing now in Sapporo, forecast is for 20cm on the mountains with a few cm on the Pacific coast plains, yeah! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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... sounds like it should be just about ready when I arrive on the 1st Dec
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I'm in a good mood this morning! Pulled back my curtains to see this:
It was around 10cm on the car. Will no doubt be more in the mountains. More forecast through the week, with a warm burst Saturday, but back in business Sunday onwards:
Down in Niseko, this is the Hirafu cam:
And this is Nakayama Touge, where I'm hoping to get the first turns of the winter in this weekend:
livetoski, Don't know off hand, but will certainly be in Sapporo over the next couple of weeks, so can check for you.
Timmaah, as Mike said, you'll likely have pow, although there may still be sasa leaves poking through, depends on how much falls through December
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Looking promising can't wait to get out there in Jan.
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great news, reckon this will hang around for a start of a decent base??
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from Clayton at BDL in Niseko this morning.
Going green already...
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Some locals got first tracks in Niseko this morning!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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way to get after it Glen & co 
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febuary is going to take a long time coming 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Looks fabulous. Where please?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Beautiful! I am unbelievably envious right now.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Some more amazing photos to wake up to! Can't wait to get back to Niseko in january
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mike Pow, at Mikasa, in the hills between Hokkaido Expressway and Lake Katsurazawa.
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kitenski, 73 days.
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kitenski, not that I'm counting or anything. Have a month of skiing between now and then.
But I am getting excited...
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Will need to ramp up my shadowing to get my ski legs sorted in Jan I reckon!
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| kitenski, 73 days. |
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