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Today I swore that I was going to sleep in. I was dedicated to it. I woke up to the call ‘…Az. It’s bluebird…’ So I didn’t sleep in – thank god. Heading a little further afield after…
January 30 2012, 7:51pm | Comments »
Here’s a video we made for the Martin Crew on a day of Cat Skiing – extended version to include some GoPro and additional footage. Anyone keen to get on the cat for a day’s skiing, or interested…
January 22 2012, 10:05am | Comments »
January 20 2012, 9:09pm | Comments »
January 20 2012, 7:08pm | Comments »
One of those epic combos of blue bird and dry pow today. wow. Here’s a few pics from a day hiking around in Niseko’s back country. Standing on the road. Shred Crew. Youtei - always there. Gettin Pow.…
January 19 2012, 7:47pm | Comments »
Chasing powder turns in the back country and skiing good lines has got to be about the best thing you can do with your life… well, it’s up there for me anyway. That and a bit of AC/DC…
January 18 2012, 3:33pm | Comments »
So yesterday was a pretty deep day, seriously, proper deep. We headed out on the cat for the 8th day in a row and rolled up to no tracks, 40cm of fresh on fresh and then copped another…
January 9 2012, 5:48pm | Comments »
New years day was our first day of adventure on the cat. We went out to the skiing zone, dug a couple of pits to check the avalanche conditions and then snuck a couple of cheeky lines in…
January 7 2012, 7:16pm | Comments »
It Keeps Coming *14.8cm of fresh snow has fallen since yesterday morning and at 6:35am today the temperature was -3°C. It is still snowing and looks set to do so all morning. Useful information from other places Snow…
January 6 2012, 7:07am | Comments »
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 IN NISEKO – frozen moment. Started with frozen morning of 2012, beautiful frozen trees and light. Year 2011 was such a difficult year for Japan as we had the Tsunami disaster, especially with Tohoku…
January 1 2012, 2:04pm | Comments »
MT.ANNUPURI PEAK GATE OPENING -powder snow wonder world in Niseko. Today was opening of the peak gate for Mt. Annupuri. It is very unusual to open in December, and this much snow over 3 – 4 m. We…
December 28 2011, 6:49pm | Comments »
Today we fired up The Cat for the first time this season… It’s fair to say THE CAT IS BACK! We’ve been monitoring the area closely and with a ton more snow than last year we are ready…
December 24 2011, 10:38pm | Comments »