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 mission up to Hokkaido’s far North East to visit the World Heritage Site of The Shiretoko Penisular. […]
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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 that lets us all know that soon it will be time to put on skis or strap […]
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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 idea that ‘might’ be fun, luckily we trusted the weather report and were blessed with a day […]
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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 with just a spattering of wind. Then there was some more rain, a bit more rain and […]
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From our fiends at SOO…. Last week a festival of creativity and passionate riding took place at Mt Buller, Australia. 30 odd friends met for five days of good food, company and riding with a bunch of camera gear to capture all the action. The task was to produce two short films for everyone to […]
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Yas and I just received a little package from our friends at Powderhound. It had a surprise in the middle with two of our shots running in the 2011 Slide Show section!! Both are shots of Watkin McLennan (red jacket – 2 middle shots) shredding Youtei’s crater (cliff shot) and another dropping down a face […]
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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 it was great coming back to Hokkaido and realising that summer really does get perfect weather (sometimes!). […]
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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After a day hiking and riding around Chise, Goshiki Onsen is the perfect Apres.
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