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Gotta say – pretty stoked to see bears for the first time!! Even if it was from a boat, fairly far away it still triggered that childish rush of… ‘look daddy!! – BEARS!!’ Last weekend we made the…
October 18 2011, 10:02am | Comments »
The temperature in Hirafu has plummeted since yesterday afternoon. Last night the thermometer went down to -2 and this morning there was a dusting of snow almost to Hirafu Village.
October 18 2011, 9:51am | Comments »
October 13 2011, 11:31pm | Comments »
October 13 2011, 11:13pm | Comments »
There has been no fresh snow today but we just found a yukimushi (雪虫) or in English snow insects… Folk law says that the appearance of these small insects is meant to signify the arrival of winter and…
October 13 2011, 3:20pm | Comments »
Yesterday was another spectacular day of weather… well maybe in our little bubble at Toya! It seems with the snow and ominous weather, somehow Lake Toya was immune and, as I guided a Groove Cycles group around Toya…
October 4 2011, 12:30pm | Comments »
The “First Snow” posts have been hitting the press hot (cold) and fast over the last few days, Today i took a drive and tried to capture some of the gloomy weather we are having of late…The weather…
October 4 2011, 3:07am | Comments »
Looking out the window after i saw Hachi’s post of Facebook, confirmed the fact that indeed snow has fallen on Mt Youtei today, and here’s just one post of what will undoubtedly be a flood of similar photos…
October 1 2011, 5:53pm | Comments »
This week yielded 24 hrs that were undoubtedly some of the most memorable of my time in Niseko so far. Setting out around lunchtime to hike a mountain that seemed to be shrouded in mist seemed like an…
September 30 2011, 7:37pm | Comments »
FRANO LAVENDER COLOUR – Another beautiful flower world 2011. Frano summer 2011, it was wonderful journey from Niseko, took us about 4-5 hours drive through Chitose and Tomamu area. There were two summer festivals at that time, the…
September 16 2011, 9:00am | Comments »
The last few weeks has seen Japan hit with some crazy weather including a couple of typhoons. Nothing overly exciting to report from Hokkaido but Honshu received a battering. We were lucky in that the typhoons delivered rain…
September 10 2011, 5:00pm | Comments »
Yesterday was one of those mornings you wake up and just get that ‘wow’ feeling, it’s the feeling that makes you love to live here and makes you appreciate Hokkaido’s summer. Having spent 3 weeks in Honshu recently…
August 20 2011, 3:11pm | Comments »