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 ourselves before the first day of guests on the 2nd. Conditions were perfect and the boys from […]
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Merry Christmas to all and I hope you’re receiving plenty of seasons blessing of snow in the face… that’s pretty much all we’ve got here in Niseko! We just wanted to publish a few shots from what has been an epic Deep December so you can all see what a festive time we’re having here […]
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Today was the first day of lifts turning in Niseko, somehow I got talked into going surfing. For the record – snowboarding is a much more appropriate winter sport. Apparently tons of snow and Siberian temperatures = good waves in the Sea of Japan. Turned out to be true but after paddling out from a […]
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Yesterday we spent 5 hrs searching for some last waves before winter, covered both coasts and saw a lot of fish. Ended up finding some swell as the change in weather hit, it went from about 15 degrees to snowing by the time we got home. But with the snow came offshore winds and a […]
Read More ›This day was one of the best days skiing off the cat for the season. Maybe it was the 30+cm of fresh, could have been the sun we scored or maybe because there were only 4 of us skiing the whole ridge line! Thanks to Sonya and Andrey, our good Russian friends, for booking the […]
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VIDEO LINK – Super Snow – Season 2011: This is a short movie we produced from footage all shot over the 2011 season. It was a season with a slow start and an abrupt end but everything in between was epic (as usual)!! Spring skiing is still on in a big way and there’s a […]
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Last night marked the end of Niseko Darts for the season with B-Grade’s Grand Final. It was a close fought affair with Full Power launching a massive comeback from 3-1 down. But it was all a little too late with Dave the darts decimator putting the final dart in the coffin to seal the match! […]
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We had a session with Nick and Scott from NSA this week to get us clued up on how to deal with emergency situations when working in the back country. We’re working with these guys this year with back country photography and video for professional and advanced skiiers/riders. Super stoked on the whole program and […]
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Sunday produced some pleasantly surprising good waves for the end of summer. After checking the waves on Saturday and deeming it un-surfable we didn’t hold much hope for Sunday and were late starters getting out of Niskeo after a flood of texts and phone calls telling us the swell had arrived. Rolling up the the […]
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We ventured into Sapporo last weekend for a movie launch which had all the beer drinking, karaoke, and deborturous nudity any one could expect from a night in Suskino. A friend of ours, Hiro Sudo, was launching his new DVD with his crew Team Ezo. Great vid and awesome photo book put together by the […]
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