Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Met up with a Hakuba friend Damian who runs a guiding operation. Check out his sevices-they know what they are doing! http://www.hakuba-alpine-guides.com/

from the gondola got a good view of the North side

some more goods imbetween

thats damian going straight for Norikuradake

you can even see the sea from the top

it was Damian's super duper ultralight setup(all dynafit gear) vs. my ultra heavy super inefficient setup.

got to the goods at kitanorikuradake

the snow was much better than we thought it would be. look at the grin-ear to ear

cool tree on the skin back up

on the skin up we got a good view of the line. mmmmm mmmmmm tasty

and then a good view of the moon

here was my run down the chute. best windbuff i have ever skied

skied around 1200m and hiked around the same, i am truly spent

3 comments:

  1. I thought you guys were going for the y-couloir in the first photo? What happened to that or are you just keeping the pics to yourself for lonely nights?

    Looks sweet skiing anyways! =)
    -kalle

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  2. We were going but didn't have enough time with the ultra fast warm up. I would have liked to have gone but i think it needs an even earlier start than Tsugaike can offer with an 8am first gondola.

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