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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, even the toilet paper. we moved down the street to the washington hotel and it […]
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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 had changed. aside from the ski resorts, sapporo was my first city… when did we […]
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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 when you can eat three bowls of rice and not have to think twice about […]
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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 decent dump coming, i wasn’t completely motivated to ride. i checked the report at 7am […]
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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 the northwest, kiroro sits on the edge of the sea of japan so it was […]
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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 good terrain and is easily accessible from the city by bus. we stayed in the […]
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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 our stay up north and i’ve only logged one day at kamui with relatively average […]
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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 the lack of crowds keeps the snow fresh for most of the day. I […]
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apologies for the lack of posts in the last week. our five days in rusutsu was the most jam packed amount of riding i’ve ever done and then i’ve been laid up the last two days with a flu and a stomach bug since we made our way to sapporo. hopefully this flu hasn’t burnt […]
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day three on the mountain and it might be our last one of the niseko portion *insert sadface*, barring any magical dumps in the next 36 hours. with the snow forecast predicting 1-3cm everyday during our stay, we’ve had some mercy from the snow gods and have had knee deep runs every one of the […]
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after a 24 hour travel day, we arrived in niseko to clear skies, no crowds and cold & crisp weather to boot. a 2.5 hour bus ride from the airport to rusutsu & finally niseko grand hirafu. they’ve gotten about 1-3 cm everyday for about a week before we got here which isn’t ground breaking […]
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