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| Neilski wrote: |
kitenski, probably twice what i would budget in austria , so in round terms of lunch and dinner out and about plus beer tokens about 15000 yen/£125 pppd inc incidentals ???
on the guiding front , i am definatly going to do a couple of guided backcountry days to get away from the madding crowds, suppose it depends on when you are there , if at peak time think things would get tracked out quickly, but if quiet then i reckon if the snow is falling then fresh tracks will be avialable striaght off the lifts all day without to much hassle.although i allways think local knowledge can save a lot of wasted time if youve never been before.
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I'm out the end of Jan...counting the days and waxing the fat skis 
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Great pics thebongolian
Today should be rather good 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mike Pow, indeed though I'll be digging snow pits and doing beacon searches somewhere near Moiwa 
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| thebongolian wrote: |
| Mike Pow, indeed though I'll be digging snow pits and doing beacon searches somewhere near Moiwa |
With Black Diamond Lodge?
How was it?
Conditions were fantastic in Grand Hirafu.
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Mike Pow, Chuck from Hokkaido Powder Guides not Black Diamond. Found it really useful.
Conditions at Moiwa were fantastic too: waist deep just outside gate 6 - really nice and not many tracks - just our snow pits. The few turns I did get were over-the-head.
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Back at work now, watching snow pounding down outside. The nighta yesterday in Hirafu was awesome, lap after lap of blower pow.
Back to Niseko Thursday evening, hopefully early enough to catch the nighta, and Friday. Then Asahikawa area again this coming weekend. Forecast is for snow every day through this week!
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thebongolian, pics appear broken to me????
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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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aaaaarrrrrgghhh i'm sooooo excited!
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kitenski, you probably don't want to see them anyway...will only make you jealous
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You know it makes sense.
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Great pics, great area
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Just leaving work now to head down to Niseko. Anyone gonna be nightskiing tonight? Will be at Hirafu, yellow pants, red jacket, white helmet, Black Diamond skis, English accent (!) Say hi if you see me! (My name's Andy)
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Poster: A snowHead
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MagSeven, legs buggered from this morning's skiing so won't be out tonight. What are your plans for tomorrow.
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Another 20cm or so this morning. Upper lifts were shut so headed for Hanozono, the waterfall gate then Miharashi before boosting my nutrition at the Niseko Village Hilton buffet.
Mike Pow, I need to get some skis waxed - do you have any reccomendations on who does a good service?
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Hi everybody. I'm heading to annapuri in a week or so with my girlfriend, and I'm struggling to arrange everything for our trip. Does anyone have any tips info on good ski hire / lift pass promos? Thanks.
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Wow, good nighta!! Ran into Eric Pollard, Chris Bentchetler, Andy Mahre and Pep Fujas! Just another day in Niseko!
I'm riding all day tomorrow at Niseko, gonna get an all day all area pass and see whats good. Fancy taking a few runs? Drop me a pm!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Should be a cracker tomorrow.
Absolutely nuking down as I type.
thebongolian try Joel at NBS in Alpen Ridge
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Mike Pow, enjoy it!
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Sweet day in Niseko. Snowing heavily at times - almost enough to fill in tracks between each lap. Hit the peak for faceshots all the way down to cat track. Some good runs off Hanozono 3. Then headed over to get my ticket for Mizuno to Sawa which was amazing despite having to go at the patroller's pace.
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I thought it was snowing heavily in Niseko, till I got home this evening! So much snow here, up to second floor windows. Railways stopped running (very rare for Japan!), expressway closed. I swear if we had a decent sized mountain here, we'd blow Niseko out the water!
Have really enjoyed riding Niseko this week. My buddy ended up riding with a random group of American telemarkers, who subsequently turned out to be the Sweetgrass crew, who made the excellent Signatures film in Hokkaido a couple of years ago. So it's been quite a pro-ho couple of days. I'm very proud to say I GNAR called out Eric Pollard etc last night with "I can't believe you're pros, I'm so much better than you"
So back to Asahikawa tomorrow for Kamui, then Asahidake for a couple of days. Should be really really good, although cold, but hopefully not too windy. Will try and get some photos.
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| MagSeven wrote: |
| I'm very proud to say I GNAR called out Eric Pollard etc last night with "I can't believe you're pros, I'm so much better than you" |
 Good work
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182cm of snow in 2 days in my town. It made the national news. I never ever thought I'd say this, but I want it to stop snowing! My car's in a random school carpark as I can't get in to my apartment's carpark. Snowbanks at the side of the roads are 3 metres plus!
Riding at Kamui and Asahidake this weekend was really really good, especially Kamui. Will add some pictures to this post tomorrow.
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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.
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thebongolian, nice pics! How much was the guiding if you don't mind me asking?
Leaving the UK in t minus 13 days!!
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Looks good thebongolian. I will be there from 28th January with my WD Redeemers too. Hopefully I will get to put them to good use.
kitenski, I believe we may be skiing together? You going with rob@rar?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Touchguru wrote: |
| kitenski, I believe we may be skiing together? You going with rob@rar? |
yup! I have skins and Dukes, but don't think Rob does (unless we get him down to the shops!) ..... hence wondering about packing my skins or not!!!
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kitenski, it was just over ¥10,000 for the day.
Touchguru, you're coming to the right place for the Redeemers. So far they've proved to be a practical day-to-day ski for conditions here. Which says it all really in terms of the snow hereabouts...
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Poster: A snowHead
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thebongolian, cheers, is that per person per day??
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kitenski, yep that was per person per day. Depending on your skills you can do a lot round here without a guide I reckon, particularly if you have wheels.
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thebongolian, cheers, that is the dilemma, to guide or not....we won't have wheels though....
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kitenski, what do you want to do while you're over here? Any particular objectives?
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thebongolian, ski lots of powder without breaking the bank basically
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| kitenski wrote: |
| Touchguru wrote: |
| kitenski, I believe we may be skiing together? You going with rob@rar? |
yup! I have skins and Dukes, but don't think Rob does (unless we get him down to the shops!) ..... hence wondering about packing my skins or not!!! |
I don't have skins for my Redeemers either. Have them setup for my Mantras but I won't be bringing those with me!
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| thebongolian wrote: |
| Touchguru, you're coming to the right place for the Redeemers. So far they've proved to be a practical day-to-day ski for conditions here. Which says it all really in terms of the snow hereabouts... |
Great to know!! 
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Touchguru, You need to split your skins! Thats what I did, simply cutting a line down the middle, now they fit my 90mm and 112mm wide skis
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kitenski, if it's been snowing you won't need a guide. If there's been a few days off it could be helpful to get to some more out of the way places or quieter resorts.
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shall look forward to a great trip report 
