hokkaido (2020) in pictures: sai-ko japow with a side of gyu katsu
after my first snowboaridng trip to hokkaido, i knew i had to get back there so the four of us (efka, gleb & simon) organized a two-week trip together to pop their japow cherry. with a toyota hi-ace minivan and…
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 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…
weekly recap #3 – asahikawa, sapporo, otaru
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. asahikawa for one night (fujita kanko washington hotel), sapporo university district (airbnb) for two nights, otaru for four nights (smile hotel) that we just extended to six nights q.…
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…
