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[Toque]

Pictures to come but Fattwins and I went up to Tateyama for some backcountry skiing and it was amazing.
We scored some pretty nice powder. It was about 10-15 cms deep. Really good.

Saturday the weather was kind of the poops but we were able to skin up over 2800 metres. Had to boot up some really hard ice to a ridge but it was pretty fun. The ski down was difficult in the clouds but the powder was pretty nice.

Sunday we awoke to bright blue ski and we spotted a beautiful line coming right off the summit of the 3000 metre peak Tateyama. 3 hours later and after a fun scramble up an icy ridge we were standing on the top and looking down at our line. The top part was pretty icy but lower down turned into really nice powder. AMAZING turns and a steep 700 metre descent back to camp

A really good weekend and I'm sporting a funny burn just along the top of my eyebrows where I didn't lather up.

[Creek Boy]

I heard youre gonna be blistering mate!

[Toque]

I was wearing a bandanna above my sunglasses so didn't lather up there but I guess it road up a bit and I got fried on my white winter forhead skin. Feels not so nice.

[Creek Boy]

take a pic and post it

[scouser]

Powder. It still exists. Sounds great.

[snowboard_freak]

God damn it! I really need to go for a ride really soon.

Roll on winter.........

[Toque]

 Quote:

Originally posted by Yamakashi:
take a pic and post it

Not before a pic of you and your helmet goes up.

I've still got a smile across my face from skiing powder at the end of April

[Creek Boy]

Got a pic of me and my helmet on the site

[Toque]

Well I have no way of getting a picture so you will just have to imagine

[Fattwins]

What a weekend toque! great weather on Sunday for sure. We bagged three very nice lines for sure. I do wish raichou zawa would have cleared up but them is the breaks. I want to hit that line again in clear weather.

The chute slash face off of tateyama was pretty nice really long line too. top was all about keeping an edge, but it was great cause it felt like ontario again. That powder about 150meters down was sick too. super high speed type powder. I can still remember telling you on the radio to giver on the way down. Cant wait untill thursday man its gonna be good.

[montoya]

Sounds like a fantastic trip! When we get a car Tateyama is definitely on the must-visit list.

We managed to hook up a ride so this GW we are gonna hit up Mt. Shibutsu in the Oozei-area of Gunma.

[Fattwins]

Sounds good post some pics when you do. Ill post the pics from toque when I get them. My dumb butt forgot my digi cam at toques house along with my sunglasses. FF was in fine form almost running out of gas on a dark and lonely road to Toques house also.

From Tokyo Montoya I would train it to nagano or matsumoto and bus it from there much easier to relax on the way home.

[SerreChe]

Powder!!!
Powder!!!
Powder!!!

I hate powder. Really Glad I could not go...


Really looking forward to seeing the pics guys.

Was it cold in the tent?

[Fattwins]

toque was fine all warm and toasty but the bag I had sucked poo. I was a bit cold and spent the nite in and out of sleep layering up.

the nite cleared and the temp dropped to minus 6 and dried up all the snow. That helped to keep the powder nice at least untill we skied it. I figure by 1 or 2 alot of the snow was turning bad. Saw lots of avies at about 2200meters due to solar heating. friday might see a bit more of spring like weather.

[SerreChe]

Bad luck with the sleeping bag. I wonder if some of these warm-up patches would have helped? What type of bag was it just out of curiosity?

[Fattwins]

I got it off of the inlaws. a down bag with a cover but it just didnt cut it. Im stepping it up to a better bag for thursday. I didnt think the temps would drop to -6 and neither did any one else.

[Toque]

Fattwins skinning up towards the summit

[Toque]

This is what it's all about
We woke up to this sunday morning

We skied the obvious line off the summit from upper lookers right all the way back to where the picture is taken from

[Toque]

The snow walls from the bus

[Toque]

More mountains from camp.
There was a group skiing off of the backside the day before. Turned out to be the guide we had met in November leading a group.