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The reports don't show pictures of my frequent linked recoveries. :) But yeah. We've probably progressed past the intermediate phase. I might be an 'enthusiastic but sometimes flawed advanced skier'. Kylie might be an 'overly cautious advanced skier that doesn't give her ability enough credit'.

I was there about the third week of January last time. In hindsight I suppose it had probably been just opened. That may have had something to do with it. Early April should be better timing.

Nice report and pics. That version doesn’t seem too difficult.

The best way for me to coax Kylie into doing it is on the morning of doing it. If I try to talk her into it now she’ll find some negative report and talk herself out of it. She would be aghast at 3 feet steps on ice wearing crampons. When I went to Cham last time and tried to do it I described...

To be honest part of the reason for not watching TV is the lack of quality content on free to air. And I don't have enough time to justify subscription TV so it's easier for me to spend time watching the first 15 minutes of news on our national broadcaster channel (ABC) and on two internet...

I’ve never heard of it sorry. We don’t have any subscription tellie. In fact aside from the odd bit of free to air sport we watch no TV at all. It’s a lack of time thing.

Hopefully.

I intend to be there in the first days of April to have the VB experience. Barring some very unusual weather between now and then of course.

I’ve had two early April trips to Banff although quite some time ago. We had great cover and multiple overnight modest top ups of fresh snow both times. I distinctly remember getting a very cold spell one of those years as my kids struggled skiing in the early morning. It got to minus 5 F for a...

On the change of weather this time of year. The hotel presented us with a special festival dinner last night to celebrate the end of winter. Edit. I don’t know why the hotel has us back in February 2020. I certainly don’t want to relive the couple of years after that time.

We are both not accomplished skiers. Kylie in particular doesn’t carve turns regardless of what skis she is on.* I can and do get my Rustler 10s (102mm) on edge in good conditions. They are so fun. I love the feeling of being propelled out of a wide turn. There is no doubt I couldn’t get them up...

We got lucky with conditions but statistically the last week of January is the best time for central Japan. From here it generally gets warmer and thaw/freeze comes into play between the snow events. Shiga Kogen may be the exception to a degree because of the higher base elevation. I’ll touch a...

There was a bit of snow forecast for last night but we woke to about 10 to 12 inches. It was a great day. We were skiing powder all day. We headed to the northern most area of the Shiga Kogen complex. The run above was only about 1000 feet of vertical and mellow pitch but we lapped that...

I have no idea what guts are. That’s why I took the pic.

At Ryuoo the punters were mostly on boards. Powderhounds explains that the snowboard culture there is strong because it was one of the first areas to allow boarding. https://www.powderhounds.com/Japan/Honshu/Ryuoo.aspx The other areas seem to be more like North America with more skiers than...

Oh. And we went to the Crumpet Cafe which was a bit novel. They serve coffee and crumpets as the only food option. We went for cream cheese and apple which was surprisingly good. We are still trying to work out what ‘guts’ is. See the sign below.

Another day another ramen lunch….. Nothing terribly exciting to report on the skiing front for today. There was only about half an inch of snow overnight. We skied with a couple of Australian fellows. They were groomer skiers so we only dabbled at the odd bit of off trail snow. It was nice to...

She hasn’t. As per my reply to Tony above.

She was given the option. She declined. She is careful with spending. I’ll buy her new skis before we go to Europe in a few weeks. I’ll make them wider so they will be more suited to Japan for next year.

The 92’s. She likes them.