Planning to go riding here in Jan-Feb-Mar
Anyone been here?
Advice on accommodation?
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Niseko Japan - 16m Annual Snowfall
Planning to go riding here in Jan-Feb-Mar
Anyone been here?
Advice on accommodation?
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you know who else gets that much snow and is slightly cheaper and closer? revy...
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Been there. Done that. Next!!Originally posted by ercchry
you know who else gets that much snow and is slightly cheaper and closer? revy...
(Will probably ride Revy or Baker for this New Years)
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i think i may be in bangkok or shanghai at the time so I might try and do the same thing
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if you happen to see someone napping in a snow bank new year's eve in revy please wake them up... cause it will probably be me repeating last yearOriginally posted by broken_legs
Been there. Done that. Next!!
(Will probably ride Revy or Baker for this New Years)
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Well I'm here now.
Bit of culture shock for me, I feel like I'm in Australia. :nuts
Heres the snow reports for the last few days:
Today: Puking snow, couldn't see anything had to call it in early
Feb 16: 35 cm
Feb 15: 20 cm
Feb 14: 20 cm
Feb 13: 5 cm
Feb 12: 25 cm
^ thats from the snow japan website. I think in real life its actually much more. There was way more than 35 cm in the village yesterday.
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/nis...12&thismonth=1
Then there's www.snow-forecast.com According to these guys it never snows here. American propaganda snow reports? Were getting a couple feet a day and they have 0.6, 1, 2 cm for the whole day.
I've never experienced "Waist deep" powder before. Ridden all over and never seen it puking this much snow. I almost wish it would stop - I've been spoiled with too many blue bird riding trips lately.
Beers are 500 yen about 6 dollars
I paid 1500 yen for a hamburger on the mountain today...
a lift pass for all 4 resorts here (all mountain pass) was 84,000 yen for 20 days. That includes night skiing. (one of the largest night skiing areas in the world supposedly.
I'm staying a pretty nice hostel called the Owashi Lodge.
http://owashilodge.com/
Cost was 45,000 for 10 days, may stay a little longer. Very close to the lift.
Will add some more details later...
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Damn man that sounds so dope. can't wait to go back to japan, and head up north this time
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Amazing. Someday I will go there!
I am user #49Originally posted by rage2
Shit, there's only 49 users here, I doubt we'll even break 100
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Hope you write up a big review... I have only been to Japan once but was more South.
I am hoping to go back and see some of the other islands, or go back in the fall as we were there for spring. You had good timing for the snowfall, my brother says it doesn't happen every year (to that extreme).
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More pics !!
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I will write up a review with some more details later... Still waiting to see what happens with the rest of the trip.Originally posted by bignerd
Hope you write up a big review... I have only been to Japan once but was more South.
I am hoping to go back and see some of the other islands, or go back in the fall as we were there for spring. You had good timing for the snowfall, my brother says it doesn't happen every year (to that extreme).
Funny about what your brother said. Everyone ive talked to here (5 season veteran Aussies) say it always gets this much snow. Last year was a "Bad" year, and they averaged 16 powder days per month.
EVERY SINGLE DAY I RIDE, im in a foot of new snow at least. Most days it's waist deep ridiculousness.
The resorts at Niseko get tracked out within hours, never any lines at the lifts, but all the Australians smash all the powder in herds and most of it is gone until a few hours later when it starts snowing again.
Theres some other less busy resorts just around the corner from here, and I will be day tripping to those and report on the conditions.
This is what I did all day today:
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Jealous.
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Looks like a good place to learn for a novice, no trees or people, tons of powder not retardedly steep....Originally posted by broken_legs
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Dang, that's like heli-skiing.
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Last edited by Cos; 12-31-2016 at 06:33 PM.
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IMO learning in powder is harder then groomed runsOriginally posted by Graham_A_M
Looks like a good place to learn for a novice, no trees or people, tons of powder not retardedly steep....
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