smitty484 said:Resort sking still sounds like it will be offering some good turns at the moment.
Yep, going tomorrow with my wife to cruise groomers and enjoy ourselves together.
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smitty484 said:Resort sking still sounds like it will be offering some good turns at the moment.
damian said:MG - yes, that grid sounds about right. And for comparison sake, we had 55cm of settled snow here in the last 2 days.
Sandy - regarding skiing, my personal take is conservative: I don't need any additional risk right now, so am not doing any skiing (in the backcountry). A serious injury now would be PITA if this over-hyped nuclear situation did actually get worse. I'll do two half-days of relaxed intermediate resort piste skiing with my wife over the weekend. But the backcountry can go on hold, along with off-piste tree skiing.
smitty484 said:Because commercial media can't help but over-sensationalise everything.
Heinz said:smitty484 said:Because commercial media can't help but over-sensationalise everything.
and they are idiots. There was some comment on the concern in Tokyo because some people were wearing masks over their mouths, clearly not knowing that the Japanese do this when they have a cold.![]()
Heinz said:smitty484 said:Because commercial media can't help but over-sensationalise everything.
and they are idiots. There was some comment on the concern in Tokyo because some people were wearing masks over their mouths, clearly not knowing that the Japanese do this when they have a cold.![]()
Sandy said:damian said:MG - yes, that grid sounds about right. And for comparison sake, we had 55cm of settled snow here in the last 2 days.
Sandy - regarding skiing, my personal take is conservative: I don't need any additional risk right now, so am not doing any skiing (in the backcountry). A serious injury now would be PITA if this over-hyped nuclear situation did actually get worse. I'll do two half-days of relaxed intermediate resort piste skiing with my wife over the weekend. But the backcountry can go on hold, along with off-piste tree skiing.
Sounds like a good thing for you to do.....![]()
I'd just like to get away from the city, and it's strange lack of normality.
Go Native said:You should just come up north Sandy. Not one aftershock since last Friday. No power issues, no fuel issues, no shortage of food due to hoarding issues, in fact no issues whatsoever. Life is as normal as it has ever been. And the snow is still pretty good. You'd love it! Niseko is almost deserted so for once you'd have the mountain almost to yourself. Be like Honshu resorts midweek in peak season!!![]()
sfo said:AAC Niseko's club thinks they'll be great deals for winter 2011/12 and the Hong Kong-based property developer Pacific Century Premium Developments Ltd recently announced that it will invest more than 100 billion Yen to construct two hotels, a hot-spring facility and 3,000 condominium units in the vicinity of the Hanazono Ski Resort. A Japanese subsidiary will spearhead the project and plans to begin by constructing four condominium buildings and a roughly 200-room hotel that will open in 2014. Currency converted, this represents an investment of A$1.25 billion, probably one of the biggest alpine resort investments anywhere.
cin said:I didn't have a mask handy, so i had to improvise;
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Charles said:cin said:I didn't have a mask handy, so i had to improvise;
Reminds me of something I have seen before...
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yep yep yep yep ah hu !!!
Petesguitar1 said:was just a little bit firm
Petesguitar1 said:Yeah, I realized all too late that I didn't have any cabbage to put in but figured I'd just have a crack any way. I was really surprised at how good they came out, although now I gotta be careful because eating 10-12 Gyoza as a main meal is delicious, but possibly not the healthiest![]()
ratherb@thesnow said:Been researching a bit more info for the forthcoming trip and although I have seen the place mention in this thread numerous times I had never given any thought to doing a day trip over to Kiroro until today, now i think back and seem to remember GN and other post TR on the place. A bit of a quick search on the web and it looks quite achievable to hire a car and head over there for the day.
Seeing as this thread is so long, i may have missed the relevant info on Kiroro but is it similar in that it gets snow in the same weather patens as Niseko? I know that people have mention that Rusutsu sometimes can get snow when Niseko doesn't even thought its only a short distance away.
Any advice on Kiroro welcome.