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[Toque]

7 of us went up 2460 metre Yakedake on the border of Gifu and Nagano on Saturday April 22. Yakedake is at the south end of the North Alps. I'm not sure if it is actually in the North Alps proper as it is a lone volcano outside of the main Alps range and as a volcano is geologically different. The mountain sits over top of route 158 and is just north of Norikura.

We found about 20-30 cms of heavy wet snow down low and nice buttery powder up high on the north facing slopes of the little crater

From the forums there was Fattwins, AK77, and Toque

Great time

[muikabochi]

Looking forward to those pics sounds great.

[Toque]

Gillagen (FT) with Dan nipping at his heals




Wes, Will and AK77


Mother nature playing some jokes


Final bit of wind blasted snow to the top. Hakusan is in the background on the other side of Hida Gifu.


Cool double layer of clouds on Kasa. That large gully coming down below is where the 3 mountaineers and 1 skier were killed in an avy a couple weeks ago. Access Kasa from ShinHotaka.

[Toque]

AK77





FT showing that after skiing J-trees for many years he can still hold his own in the high mountains

[Fattwins]

I changed my mind and im gonna make a cd for anyone that wants one. chime in if you do. so toque dont make a cd at all.

[Toque]

I was supposed to make a CD?

[Bushpig]

Good to see you are on the ball BeanieBoy!

[Toque]

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Originally posted by Fattwins:

I really liked yakedake a great work out! I know cause im still feeling it in my legs.

It's a fun mountain eh
I wish we had had more time to do some laps in the bowl
I would have liked to ski that straightline right next to the one you hit
But I had to pull the plug. I just made my enkai.

[Bushpig]

Looks sweet fellas. Nice.

[doubledragon]

Awesome photos dudes.

[Fattwins]

top down toque it looked tight. was worried about it cause the speed and the kink. i told ak77 that you will more than likely head back there and one up me by doing that line. lol.

[Fattwins]

toque ill pop up some pic of you later in the day. my pic of jer and will didnt turn out bummer. we had so many cameras that day.

[Toque]

A few pictures from Dan


Jer fell into a hole. What up with us and holes???????


FT and I on the windy summit. Hotaka peaks in the background


FT edging into his first line. I couldn't take pictures of this as I was in the clouds beyond.



And myself skiing out in the big bowl. Low angle mushy turns

[AK 77]

Thany you to those who made that trip possible (although no thanks from my legs which are dead!) it was a good one - sorry to the advance party on skins who had to wait for the snowshoers to yomp it up there - it was hard work! But worth it for the views and lines available at the top -if only legs weren't jelly by the time i got there, thanks to the new snow!

[AK 77]

good pics!
FT has mine, so there are some more shots of you all to come.

[Kumapix]

ak77 nice drop there! I'm so jealous!

[Fattwins]

dan and ak77 on the hike up after fixing the trekkers
will and wes genki at this point still

2 shots of the snowshoe king jer.

[Fattwins]

dan or toque on the hump

forgot the morning cars

ak77 looking down toques line.

Me FT and dan checking the stability

[Fattwins]

now the action
2 shots of toque showing us how its done in your own backyard


will and jer near the vent

[Creek Boy]

toques line looks fun. Wish my chauffeur was still in Kansai...bummer