Video time!
1st and 2nd Feb - Hirosaki Zone
Time for Tohoku! Here's the start of the footage from our season in Japan, this time our Tohoku trip from the 1st to the 12th of Feb. This is combined footage from day 1 and 2 from the same resort during the Hirosaki part of our trip (1st/2nd Feb).
Day 1 was nice. We started inbounds, in the trees but most of the sidecountry was pretty tracked. We put the skins on in the afternoon and went up higher for about an hour and found really nice snow. The trees in this area are probably my favorite in all of the places I've been to in Japan as the spacing is perfect and it's reasonably steep.
The next day (2nd Feb) we'd had some new snow overnight and most of the tracks were filled in, so we had several laps on the double chair, skiing the trees to either side of the main run. We had some nice runs. Then after lunch, a few of the guys wanted to go skinning again so we decided to head up higher than the day before.
It started snowing really heavily and we skinned for over 1.5 hours. By the time we reached our high point, the snow was really accumulating. We dropped in and it was past boot top deep and we were getting lots of faceshots. We had a great ski down with several fun pitches. What a great way to start the trip!
- Matt
1st and 2nd Feb - Hirosaki Zone
Time for Tohoku! Here's the start of the footage from our season in Japan, this time our Tohoku trip from the 1st to the 12th of Feb. This is combined footage from day 1 and 2 from the same resort during the Hirosaki part of our trip (1st/2nd Feb).
Day 1 was nice. We started inbounds, in the trees but most of the sidecountry was pretty tracked. We put the skins on in the afternoon and went up higher for about an hour and found really nice snow. The trees in this area are probably my favorite in all of the places I've been to in Japan as the spacing is perfect and it's reasonably steep.
The next day (2nd Feb) we'd had some new snow overnight and most of the tracks were filled in, so we had several laps on the double chair, skiing the trees to either side of the main run. We had some nice runs. Then after lunch, a few of the guys wanted to go skinning again so we decided to head up higher than the day before.
It started snowing really heavily and we skinned for over 1.5 hours. By the time we reached our high point, the snow was really accumulating. We dropped in and it was past boot top deep and we were getting lots of faceshots. We had a great ski down with several fun pitches. What a great way to start the trip!
- Matt