Japan Jongified

**fattwins** · 09-11-2007, 05:41 AM

Oh I have flab but im trying to loose it quick. Biking up mountains for 1hr helps loose weight.

**StuntCok** · 09-11-2007, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by fattwins

I love skirts! but that is deffinatly a no fall uniform.

I had a great weekend I figure I biked at least 70kms over 2 days. 35% of that was up hill. Fark if biking isnt an expensive sport! Ive dumped 100 bucks already in a month of riding on broken parts and I still have to spend more.

cb if you can sell the dukes then sell them I cant buy crap for a while. It is hard for me to walk into rappie and get him to mount the things when he offered me 44000 mounted.

here was my weekend
http://hakubapowderlodge.blogspot.com/

70kms! I am glad I couldn't make it, I would have died! Anyway, I got a cold on sat so it wouldn't have been great driving back on Sunday night.

DZ · 09-13-2007, 04:38 AM

Hohes / db

if you're in t-town fri drop me a line

dizzy

**neck beard** · 09-13-2007, 04:49 AM

Diz! I will be in T killing time on Saturday, working Friday.

**addict** · 09-13-2007, 06:56 PM

WTF, dizzy's on here too?

You be in the valley of goodness around christmas/new years? It'd be good to get some hits in, I'll be putting in a little time exploring Nozawa too.

**satori** · 09-13-2007, 10:45 PM

Lets def hit Nozawa, Ive been wanting to go back there for quite some time!!

**addict** · 09-14-2007, 01:36 AM

Got some siiiick pow there last dosojin, and there's some big cliffs and amazing treed slidepaths that I'd love to re ski and film. Amazing scenics even for Japan. Not the biggest and cleanest lines, but really different. My bro will be there for a month. I should be touching down in mid dec, maybe go see Kyoto and party in Tokyo a bit while I wait for the snow to dump, then hit HPL and the Noze. Also keen to see Shiga, I've never been and it loks like a massive resort.

**neck beard** · 09-14-2007, 01:52 AM

FT - Snow last night? Nice. We should be there tomorrow evening checking out homes on Sunday (if we get our shit together).

Hot and humid in Tk today. And from memory, this is a cool one. Glad I missed summer.

Diz - I am in town all next week and free up until 3pm each day if that suits you for a beer and something.

**fattwins** · 09-17-2007, 08:05 AM

noz is sick when its on. last year it struggled with a low snow pack.
db sorry i was mtbing all weekend.

**neck beard** · 09-17-2007, 07:58 PM

No probs, next weekend maybe. We were pretty busy visiting houses anyway. One was cool: $85,000, solid, 20 years old, 1050m2 block, 4 bedrooms, very secluded, no garden or such crap, private onsen bore, two monkeys hanging out on the property.

Monkeys. In the back yard.

Buy.

**StuntCok** · 09-17-2007, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Hohes

No probs, next weekend maybe. We were pretty busy visiting houses anyway. One was cool: $85,000, solid, 20 years old, 1050m2 block, 4 bedrooms, very secluded, no garden or such crap, private onsen bore, two monkeys hanging out on the property.

Monkeys. In the back yard.

Buy.

Wow, there is going to be a whole maggot community up in Hakuba... Mine doesn't have any monkeys until FT comes to visit

**neck beard** · 09-17-2007, 11:39 PM

Hakuba is 2.0

**fattwins** · 09-18-2007, 12:56 AM

Well when its that cheap and there are biglines I draws the players out.

DZ · 09-18-2007, 08:48 AM

Hohes, you'll have to rename your website hakuba90210.com

until 3 pm this week? i guess i'll see you when it snows

i was camping here in Nagano until monday:

lodge and tents 2300m; summit in the clouds 3190m

**neck beard** · 09-18-2007, 08:52 AM

...and you will be snowboarding that very line with me in 6 months time, or earlier if conditions permit. I have a spare winter bag if you need it.

90210 wa have I missed some bitch scratching drama?

DZ · 09-18-2007, 04:55 PM

It's a spring line. Fattwins has skied all of the lines there.

congrats on your purchase. when r u moving in?

**neck beard** · 09-18-2007, 08:13 PM

Didn't actually buy it. But I probably would if it wasn't so rushed. Shop around, all that stuff.

**addict** · 09-18-2007, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by DZ

It's a spring line.

You never know, coulda been a winter line last season for the time I was there. That shit was super stable for a week or 2.

**neck beard** · 09-19-2007, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by DZ

lodge and tents 2300m; summit in the clouds 3190m

So... I guess it aint Niseko.

There is no reason not to try it in late winter rather than waitring for a corn-out. Spring lines become important if winter is super cold and the delicate thin pack just wont stick to the underlying glacier ice above the 'schrund. The Kita Alps isnt really like that, it can be warmer with a sticker faster settling pack and obviously no ice. Hopefully it lets you carefully think about lines a little earlier in the winter.

I am planning a couple of weeklong winter trips up into Kamikochi, mostly just poking around with less emphasis on flat out riding.

**Mike Pow** · 09-19-2007, 02:32 AM

Is it me, or is that a dodgy place to have a lodge?

**fattwins** · 09-19-2007, 05:36 AM

that place only opens in may. I wouldnt want to be there in December actually there is no save way up or down that valley, unless you go the very long way around. That means a few camps or one camp depending. The Bluecliff team go in there alot. I like it but its a slog and the weather has to be right to spend 3 days in there.

From the top

**neck beard** · 09-19-2007, 06:42 AM

Great pic!

>only open in May...

Yeah, but you can skin the road before it opens to traffic. There is a limited bus service right up until the permenant summer barrier to private cars. Skin from there.

Its a multi day trip for sure, but the valley is quite wide and mostly safe-ish until it narrows, or maybe not. I'm planning on building and stocking on igloo right up towards the end of the valley. I'm talking the Kamikochi valley bending round on the right with the river.

**fattwins** · 09-19-2007, 08:37 PM

You can get in there that isnt the problem. The valley that is Karasawa is a death trap when its got fresh snow. I was there when a class 3 ripped out and rolled close to camp and the was just in May. Slept with my beacon on that night.

db with teh lodge and a full time job I wont be able to do these types of trips. Only lucky retired guys get to dream this big.

**addict** · 09-19-2007, 10:31 PM

Convince a heli driver or pilfer a sled and you'd get in there pretty quick. I'm sure no one would see you in there on your sled despite the legalities....

If the snow/weather's like last season when I'm there I'd be in on such a trip.