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[SJ-Taka]

A new Setting Journals feature - "White Season 2005-2006 Report" - has been put online.

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-28.html

"Summer 2005 in Japan was the kind where tarmacs at airports soften to the point that loaded down planes sometimes get stuck & need to be pulled free. There was little respite from the heat during daytime, but nights began to cool significantly. Occasionally a typhoon would blow over the Japanese archipelago, cooling things down at the upper elevations.

A few years back in September the resort hosted a country music festival (featuring Roseanne Cash, The Charlie Daniels Band & others) on a neighboring plateau about 1,000 meters above sea level. The bands that day (who had been expecting to play at the resort) froze in the typhoon at that elevation. Upon return to the resort, a shivering band member came off the bus and immediately asked for directions to the nearest bar (whiskey was required to warm her up). The Plateau concerned actually closes each winter due to the amount of snow there, & is only accessible via Pisten Bully..."

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-28.html

Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not necessarily those of Snow Japan.

Discuss it here...

[97]

We are going again to Arai this coming week, really looking forward to it. I'm happy to hear there is a lot of snow left!

[brit-gob]

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At the start of the month the mountain base had no snow but a little over two weeks later it was a solid 2.5 meters.

I remember those days

[Blair]

Hello 97

The lifts are to open an hour earlier April 10 - 16, so try to make the most of it.

brit-gob

Glad that you remember December 2005 too! I wonder for how many years it will be talked about. People in the area still talk about Winter of 1986...

[brit-gob]

So what was 86 all about then?

[snowbender]

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For years I had pestered management to bring Santa to the resort, but it never came about until this year.

Were you Santa, Blair? I hope he went out skiing as well....

[Blair]

Ho Ho Ho ...

[BagOfCrisps]

Pics please.