K2_SCS takes on Japan!

Will keep updating here.

So yeh we had major delay in our flights yesterday on at different airports due to mechanicals and an apparent volcano eruption in japan. Eventually got to the hostel before reception closed, checked in and went for a walk to get some sushi and vending machine can browsing. Staying Anne Backpackers which is a cool place. Bout to clear out and make our way too Nagano then hakuba.
Shred time!
K2

Those vending machines are awesome. Beer, hot coffee, what else could you ask for?

The bullet train to Nagano is quite the experience too.

Can’t wait to hear your shred stories! 

At hostel bar now having bevies. First day of pow tomorrow and they are expecting some more!

Which mountain are you going to ride first? Happo-One and Hakuba 47 were my favourites for freeriding terrain. Hakuba 47 probably has the best terrain park in the region too; you have to check it out, two lifts servicing just the park, with music pumping all the way through.

Went to happo one today. Was an awesome day getting th legs working Again. Yeh jeremy it’s pretty sweet terrain. Not sure where we are gonna go to tomorrow. Expecting a storm tonight so not sure where we are gonna to tomorro. Will speak to some others.
I’ll get som pics tomoro. All our pics are on cameras an we don’t have a way of uploading them. I’ll user phone and give u some tomorrow.

Yeh I can on iphon haha I thought o saw something like that last night bit I was wasted so can’t really remember. Is it still here?

Too many asahi pints, its happy hour

Went to 47 and goyru today. Awesome day! Bit white out tho but still had fun. Here are a couple pics just for u boys! Sorry if photos are over size can’t change ATM vIA phoe

R1 on hakuba 47 looking out onto hakuba

Bruise after first day in shin from thermals folding over in my boot!

Pretty sure we are going to go cortina tomorro.
Peace from echoland!

Went to cortina today cos everyone raved about it. BEST DAY RIDING EVER!!!! so much pow, best tree runs and awesome steep pow runs over avy barriers!

Here Are te pics I took on phone when I could

Thanks for taking time out from all that awesome fun to post some pics for us

Don’t put your thermals in your boots, just socks !!! everything else goes above the boot

Yeah mate, thanks for sharing that with us. Sounds like you’re having an unreal time. Best snow days are so much fun, ey! 

I’m with Azz on the thermal tucking procedure, only socks in boots. 

Looking forward to hearing more. Have you been to Happo-One yet?

Haha ur a funny man Mizu!
They cheers azz n Jeremy. Massive difference doing it that way.

Yeh rode happo one first day. Wicked mtn. But snow wasn’t at it’s freshest and was Saturday so busy.

Today was iwatake. Another awesome hill. Did some nice tree runs and a few sick pillow drops. But liftys saw us and told us they would take our passes if we went in there again.  So went to another side found some awesome Lines under the gondala. Steep deep untouched pow and trees! And some rad drops. Saw an awesome line under another lift back up so jumped off halfway into some cool lines. Liftys at the bottom saw us and were goingto cancel our pass. We lied and said we were getting our dropped camera and there was no other access. Got off with it

Yeh looking back immso pissed I didn’t get one! And my old one does t cut it.

Yeh today and yesterday we were getting last run fresh tracks!

Ahh jealous… want to go back to Japan! If not only for a plum sour mixer!

They turn a bit of blind eye to ducking ropes at Happo-One (at least from my experience and what I was previously told). At the other mountains they are much stricter, as I believe any avalanche in those areas poses a real risk to on-piste terrain.

K2, there’s some awesome tree runs on skier’s very far left of the mountain. Get to the bottom on Kitaone 3 chair, duck the rope at the bottom and keep going through the trees. Once you hit the first narrow cat track after the first set of trees, take that all the way to the bottom, which will take you to the road and a short walk back to the lifts. Do not keep going into the second set of trees otherwise you will be hiking out for at least an hour in waist deep snow.

If you do decide to duck a rope, please be careful and treat it like the backcountry.