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[tsondaboy]

 Originally Posted By: Kingofmyrrh

Can you believe it, I do Fuji twice without any problem and then I get a blister on my heel doing a light jaunt at Kagura!?! I knew something felt a little sore but I never dreamed that the skin had actually ripped... hope it sorts itself out quickly!

Thats because we had a faster pace than Fuji last weekend. We did twice a 400 m vert hike in 45-60 mins when on Fuji it took us 3.5 hours to do 900 m. We had a far better pace last weekend.
speaking of which, I am tempted to do 1 more day trip to kagura.
It seems that its going to be pretty cool up there all week.

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Cool. I actually quite liked our route as we basically walked up the area we were going to ski so it was easy to check conditions. But it was probably one of the steeper approaches.

Like Dan said about our route, we would not have taken that route in mid season and would be definitely skiing it down before 10-11 AM. We hiked straight up an avalanche path. In new snow I would prefer the Yasuda route.

What webcam is that?

[Kingofmyrrh]

You could rephrase that to 2.5hrs to do 800m, as the first hour was so painfully slow... we were slipping around and I was a bit worried!

I'm not that keen to hike Fuji outside of spring... I know it's unlikely to slide, but are there any safe zones on the other side? When I hiked it it was just basically one vast face. Also it would be a real slog to break trail in fresh snow, and the weather would be most unpleasant unless we got another sweet day like this time, although certainly not impossible.

That webcam is Tateyama. I think I want to take things in that direction going forward, although it would take a lot of planning. Kagura was totally sweet on Saturday but I would normally prefer it as a light powder hike, I think spring may call for bigger things in the future. Am just checking out a great TR on Yarigatake (the one in Kamikochi, not the one next to Shirouma).

[Fattwins]

Tateyama got new snow you can see the new slides.
Kamikouchi is a debris mess this season, Heard from friends.
Tateyama wouldnt take much planning if you stayed in a lodge there.
Stay in the one in that saddle and you can be on the peak very quickly. I would carry crampons just in case. the little cheap 4 pin ones wounld be fine enough really.

Fuji in November??? No mountians to shelter you usally means shear ice. My father inlaw spent 2 months in the hospital after death sliding down Fuji.

[Stuntcok]

Yah king, Dukes on Gotes with Alpine boots are not for long hikes at all. I was most impressed that you even tried, to be honest. Dan did something like 20 tour days in a row this spring and sports touring boots with ultralight touring bindings and skis. The difference is massive.

[Kingofmyrrh]

I would probably stick with the gotes for the time being, they're not super heavy or anything and I quite like their shorter length specifically for picking my way through obstacle courses, and I'm just really comfortable on them in general, but I am 100% ready to swap the dukes and alpine boots for something a little sleeker, to say the least...

[tsondaboy]

How about swapping them for a splitboard then.

[Kingofmyrrh]

Sleek...?

Since a splitboard is a wannabe ski, why on earth would I do something insane like that!

[tsondaboy]

 Originally Posted By: Kingofmyrrh

Since a splitboard is a wannabe ski, why on earth would I do something insane like that!

right on!!!

[Fattwins]

Then again it is amost 1500 bucks!

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Didn't see this TR until now. Nice.

Originally Posted By: Kingofmyrrh

Dan, fresh from a few weeks at altitude in Hakuba, didn't seem particularly bothered by the height and provided a further nice surprise by pulling out a summit beer.

That's a true friend

Good thing about Fuji is that when you tell your friends back home they'll be like: 'Cool.' But if you tell them you did Tateyama they'll be like 'Tatty-what?'

Hey Daver, check out the new smileys. Everyone's been on about them for a week now so I'm probably but there are some pretty cool ones.

[JapaneseSnowBunny]

I don't know anyone who has skied down Fuji. Thank you for photo.