Powder for Africa

There is enough to go around for everyone, Kalle

Kaysa getting in deep

Kalla schmearing

"shits bout to get real"-Sean

As Sean would say, it got real today, real deep.
Sean hitting a sweet pillow-

Ben shredding to the MAXIMUM

It is snowing even harder as I write this, waiting for tomorrows shift to be over at 12 tomorrow.

well back to some real powder again

Rode with team Finland today, Ville knows how to get deep in it, sort of like a good friend Tammy.
Ville-

Just staying above water-

past few days skiing & a castle day

The castle was sweet in Matsumoto, crazy old weapons-

Megan is turning Japanese as well.

it started snowing as we got to the top of the castle-

cool view of birds in the moat from the moon viewing room

it actually was a very pretty dayall said and done-every day of experiencing Japanese culture was spent in the rain. I think ol Japowder just wanted us to ski

so we went skiing-

Megan loving Hakuba

it was actually a dust on crust day, but with no moguls like montana it was really fun!

megan schralping

and Megan again from the other day-

we got home today to find the igloo is now an inrun to a quarter pipe! sweet addition to the lodge.

Megan goes home tomorrow which coincides with more snow-who would have thought?

almost forgot this one-the only people on the entire train making any noise-Nick, Tomie, and Megan

Traveling- Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto

So i went to Tokyo withsome buddies from the lodge Ben and Sean, you may have seen them in some previous pictures. we had a great time. rented some bike for 2$ for 24 hours and hauled ass around like we owned the place. biked to the sumo tournament-awesome. some real fattys but they usually lost to the more nimble and disciplined. Stayed at a sweet hostel in tokyo-Kaosan original. met Megan at Narita 2 days later than planned and had some more fun. went shopping in tokyo, then went to Osaka and met up with a good friend Nick. stayed at his place and did some osaka night life. the next day went to kyoto to some temples and some more shopping. them came back to hakuba the next day.

on to pictures

Nick's kitchen, this is where you ralie your truly in Japan

Nick's cat Pickles- coolest cat of the next millenium.

Megan's new sponsorship-strawberry kitkat

The bus ride from hakuba to nagano-they squeeze them into the isles even!

Sean and Ben rocking the tokyo lifestyle

biked to some cool places-gnarly set of stairs after this bridge we rolled down

Woahhhhh there, geter under controll boys

At Tokyo palace or something like that- we were going to fast to stop for long

The lineup of the eastern sumo team, some foriegn guys, fattys, and small dudes

this is what i have been waiting for

Not this- but funny advertising nontheless

the view from the hostel-good conversation starter

in tokyo with megan at asakusa shrine

the view from the mayors office-we had a little chat and i gave him some ideas for the city-cut down on the population!

i think this was the olympic stadium in tokyo from 1970 or something like that?

monster samurai

Harujuku-sweet second hand shopping- in fact the best i have ever seen!

Megan being the navigator for a change- she got it by the end of the trip, id follow her anywhere

in osaka at a sweet okinawan restraunt with Ben on the right and Nick on the left.

styling the new harujuku reversible jacket, 5$, so really 2.50 for 2 jackets-what a deal

in kyoto saw this guy making earns, really cool to watch

Megan holding daitokuin up.

In kyoto at shijo we found this sweet bar and spent some time there with the nicst bartender ever!

I wana bite

Nick, Tomie, and Megan.

today-no freshies but still turning on some

Patrick showing his euro skills in good light

Damon loving life away from Australia, and more importantly more Australians.

EPIC DAY TODAY

went to the local derelict mountain. had the place to ourselves!

Sam loving life

snow was great

Sam a rippin his way down the mountain.

well it was pretty good yesterday-
ben shredding