Going Land of Snow on Skis

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fujita yuji

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Hi, forumates. Sorry for being off so long.
I've spent really hard time just reading your great stories, looking at
great field shots.

I've finally found time to go out for the first time in this winter ... er almost Spring :( .
This time, I will introduce back country skiing of Japan to you, yet again.

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We've spent last night in our cars, not a great shelter like seen in the bushcraft textbook.
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I could see Mt. Tanigawa in the opposite side of the valley.
This is an infamous mountain for a great number of mountaineering/climbing accidents.
The wall has almost one mile of climbing distance, with technically hard sections and LOTS of snow.
Here's an article for further reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tanigawa

We could see many tracks on the snow, most of them were hares'.

This is the moutain we've climbed hailing our skis.
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It's Mt. Shiragamon, the name means "the gate of white hair".
It was more than 3000ft. of climb, taking three hours.
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The summit shot. The left most one is me.

First downhill of the day, on new snow.
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Always a great pleasure to ski on new slope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S74EzkoHogM
Here's a link to the vid I took.

We've climbed the same mountain again and
made another downhill to the western side of the mountain.
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The last shot took on a river burried under the snow.
The steep mountains on the right side is Mt. Tanigawa.

Climbing and skiing all day long that I had no time to take blade shot
but it worked greatly to smooth the ski sole when I stepped on a rock by mistake.

Thanks for reading.
 
Very solid effort walking up the mountain twice like that. As silly as it sounds, this is the first time I ever saw somebody exploit the backcountry for alpine skiing apart from resorts. Very intriguing!
 
Thanks, kgd.
Alpine skis are great tool going on steep mountains saving energy and gaining speed.
Well, I admit it is so much fun at the same time though.
 
Beautiful pictures as usual! You're excused from not being on here if you were out doing that!:thumbup:--KV
 
kgd said:
Very solid effort walking up the mountain twice like that. As silly as it sounds, this is the first time I ever saw somebody exploit the backcountry for alpine skiing apart from resorts. Very intriguing!
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I saw a special on one of our local channels of people doing that same thing in Oregon. Too much work for me though.:D


Thanks for the pics.
 
Thanks, guys.

We were four men party, three of them wearing heel fixed alpine skis and one Nordic (telemark).

Happy to see you enjoyed my post.
 
I'd love to go to S. Korea or Japan in the winter, it always seems so pretty. My grandpa was station in S. Korea for two winters in the 60's and loved it, part of why he moved here to Colorado, well that and he had to finish his contract at the Rocky Mt Arsenal. Only other place I'd go in winter like that would be Afghanistan, but I don't like being shot.
 
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