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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.

We are down the southern end of the large Shiga Kogen complex today. The weather has cleared to make it easier for us area novices to navigate and find the fairly abundant sectors of lightly tracked powder. Today’s lunch is a value record. The ramen 1000 yen or about 6.50USD and the pork...

@jamesdeluxe I know you love ski resort signs. Japan’s answer to the Euro Insta signs below. And below is yesterday’s 8USD ramen. Today we are at a snowy Shiga Kogen. Kylie is enjoying the roughly 5 inches of snow on the groomers. It’s her idea of a perfect powder day.

The American west might be having a relatively lean season snow wise so far but there are still plenty of great beers to drink. I met a couple of Ikon wielding Americans from Colorado at Myoko who were enjoying lamenting the conditions back home. Of course they got lucky being here now. In a...

There are some lovely pitchy runs off the top with hero snow (or Alta snow as Kylie calls it). Perfectly north facing from what I can tell. Below. Some great natural halfpipes in the trees. And lastly a couple of shots from the lofty 4000 feet high summit.

I am sure there are plenty of these ‘pizza box’ single lifts but we have never ridden one. Novelty value.

Madarao today. Almost bluebird. Pretty scenery with the snow on the trees. ^^^ Trees with nice snow. Spaced for gapers like me.

I’ve never skied the east so I have zero perspective sorry.

Oh. And interestingly there were a lot of conifer type trees at the top of the ski area yesterday. Most of the trees I’ve seen in other ski areas have been deciduous types.

Most of it is renowned for being mellow pitch and from the limited amount I’ve seen from the two times I’ve been here that seems to be the case. As far as gradient is concerned like most of Snowmass or Grand Targhee or Northstar etc. The area under the tram at Ryuoo yesterday was a little...

No. I’m on my 102mm Rustlers. They keep me buoyant enough as I’m a lightweight. Any flaw in my powder skiing is the driver not the ski. Kylie is on 92mm Blizzards. She could do with something a bit wider I guess.

I don’t ski powder well but Kylie is struggling. A bit too much of a good thing. Funny to watch.

The second tram was delayed because they don’t run it with less than 10 people on board. 😂 I had to share that run with someone else.

Got the rope drop at the top of the tram. Recency bias and all but that could be the best inbounds ski run of my life.

The tram is luxury. Has seats. Eat your heart out Jackson/Snowbird. Oh. And less people.

Change of plans. At the recommendation of some people at breakfast we’ll go to Ryuoo Snow Park. The consensus is there will be less competition there.

It snowed about 20 inches on the hills last night apparently. We’ll head to Madarao in a few minutes in search of some powder turns. It’s about 30 minutes drive from our digs. Had a pretty stunning dinner at a local joint last night. About $45 USD including two beers and a bad red wine.

@ChrisC those nicely spaced trees you spoke of.