Snowboarding

  • looking back at asahikawa

    when did we visit and for how long? late february for 10 days what kind of accommodations? two hotels.  we barely stayed in the first one for 30 minutes because it was so disgusting.  smoke was seeping out of everything,…

  • looking back at sapporo

    i’m trying my hand at maybe my last ‘regular’ series of posts… to look back upon the cities that we’ve stayed in this trip and to compare that to our first day to see how our opinions of the city…

  • weekly recap #4 – sapporo

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. sapporo (university district) for 1 week, extended to 11 nights q. favourite meal a. crisp tonkatsu with equally crispy cabbage and three kinds of rice.  dericious.  even more dericious…

  • looking back at kiroro’s epic storm week

    so after just one day of riding i had kiroro and niseko at neck and neck however i had a feeling that that was going to change very quickly.  i got up the next day and though there was a…

  • the infamous kiroro migration

    talk about a hectic morning.  last sunday was our checkout from sapporo and checkin at otaru however the snow forecast had a sizable dump coming to all of the coastal mountains around sapporo.  as the winds were coming in from…

  • a lazy sunday at sapporo teine

    prior to our recent otaru stay, we ventured back to sapporo for two nights and one of the motivating factors to come back to the city was so i could make a daytrip to teine.  i’ve heard that it has…

  • from asahikawa to furano in search of the great dump

    so with our asahikawa trip coming to an end and plenty of lounging around, i wanted to make the most of our trip up to the region that claims the ‘lightest powder on the island’. we were 8 days into…

  • daytrip to kamui ski links

    after 5 days of sitting dormant in asahikawa,  the weather finally turned around so I decided to head up to one of the local hills, kamui ski links,  for the day.  from what I’ve read,  there’s some great terrain and…