Left Hirafu Sat afternoon new years day hazy and hungover and got back tonight - Woah. Took a drive up to the welcome center and it was pretty funny - look like any car that had been parked there over night was smashed.





Yeah thought it was really funny until i got back home and saw (well i actually couldn't see) my car park.
Tomorrow should be interesting - not that cold right now...we'll see what the POW is like soon enough.

Beautiful dawn today in Niseko.

Hey Glen where was that last shot taken from? Near St Moritz bridge?

Spot on champ ! zoomed in a bit.

thanks for the new wallpaper

Jishipi, I think we saw you taking that picture as we were driving to Kiroro, it was a beautiful morning, the mountain looked so good I almost felt bad to be leaving it!!

Hey Jimmer - bet Kiroro was sweet.
Hirafu was nice but i spent so much time waiting in lift lines.
Check out the nightmare at Alpen this morning.

Back view

Clouds rolled in around 9 ish - the single chair opened and people thought the peak was on but alas not yet just gate 4 and another mega line - will be interesting to see if the resort plan on making any improvements to lifts for next season... improvements...pretty please

I'll never moan about 'empty' slopes again!

Love the colours on the night pics there Jishipi.

Man I am so glad I went to Kiroro istead of Hirafu today! That's insane! Their lifts were so much better than ours, I don't understand why if we are busier Tokyu can't buy some decent detachable quads!!

Fantastic pics. keep 'em coming

Interesting stuff, thanks dude

I spent the morning over in Hanazono. No lift queues like that over there! One of the main reasons I don't ski in Hirafu much during peak season.

This is really good stuff. Real Journalism here ...
By the way, I go snowboarding, forget about lining up whatever the snow condition is It's like waiting for an amusement park ride ...

Jishipi those queue's are HORRENDOUS!
So glad I was carving it up in RUSUTSU!

MB, there was absolutely nobody at Hanazono that morning. I'll upload a picture later that I took that morning specifically because it was so empty. It was actually a little creepy...

Yeah I had fresh tracks in Strawberry Fields for most of the morning until I fell awkwardly and dislocated my shoulder again...

Wonder why Hana was so deserted when there were so many queues at Hirafu? Were the top lifts not open?

I think everyone made a bee line for the top and stayed there hoping that the peak would be opened... and it wasn't!

Yeah ...think lots of people were hanging around for the peak to open which it didn't - opened today right ? Dislocated shoulder...bummer
I did manage one shot in 'The Zone' skier Adrian Camp