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Niseko’s Winter – Strike III and out?

By Simon | March 25, 2009

Just off the mountain, great runs on Niseko Annupuri in the backbowls. After 4 days of cold snowy-ish weather 20cm had accumulated on a firm base with some deeper wind blown stashes. Really can’t complain being the 25th of March. Is this the last of it or not? will check the weather and download the [...]

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In Hokkaido

By Joel | March 16, 2009

As last weeks warmer weather showed us spring is on the way, but as you can see from Simon’s photo’s the winter still has some bite left. The snow arrived just in time for the weekend and word on the street was that Rusutsu had some great snow.Unfortunately being the weekend and due to a [...]

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Niseko Winter – Strike 2

By Simon |

Well, we got another taste of winter on Saturday night making yesterday pretty good on the mountain. Searching the mountain for pockets of powder I managed to snap this shot. Is winter ever going to end?

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The First Snowfall 2

By Simon | November 26, 2008

Every year when it snows for the first time and the landscape is covered in this magnificent blanket of white I am amazed at how different things can look. Almost nothing else can compare to this as mother nature paints the ground white and finishes its work of art with small dabs of snow in [...]

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