Jesus no. No. Fuck no.
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pink poodle
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Sweet dreams...
You know the locals say don't touch them? Ahhhhh, is that a pet? Different option then. Just a quiet no.
pink poodle
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Pet...dude had 2 on leashes. I wasn't up for touching as I don't know how to interact with them (I'm good with dogs...) and wasn't too keen on going to hospital for shots if it didn't work out. Horny devil sprung on me like lightening. I didn't want to get pushy about getting it off either, well not in my ear anyway.
I've seen plenty of wild ones, they are quite numerous around a few ski towns. Definitely keep my distance from those fuckers. The males are huge.
Good with dogs huh? Who would have guessed?
When we were in Tokushima prefecture an island had been cut in half to create a sanctuary. The other half was a power station but that is another story. A few monkeys manage to escape into the plant along conveyor belts or just over or around the massive fencing. Real red alert stuff. Huge problem and they have border control specialists who take over. Also on Miyajima you are warned to avoid the monkeys but that isn't always possible. They steal anything and everything and rabies is a real threat.
pink poodle
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The opposite of a good time.
pink poodle
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Well that is a lot of snow.
Get a message about a former employee died over Christmas and funeral details, wake etc. Planning numbers will you be able to come? Yes but I won't be attending. What? Should have just said no first. I have no interest in going to a funeral for someone who caused so much trouble and disorder.
pink poodle
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So...there was about 40-50cm at the base, and in some of the higher spots this blew out to waist deep! This was the real dry fluffy type of snow so at that depth if it wasn't steep the going was tough. I edged out (about 2m off the course) to sneak a tree run early in the day and had to dig myself out at almost nipples deep. I cut the corner of snow off in this photo and when I came home there was another 25-30cm piled up there for more snow over the day. Time for an onsen and get myself rejuvenated for tomorrow.
After all that talk about the bike industry being in crisis i am reminded of what financial crisis really looks like. I'm in a town where 4 ski fields have not opened this season and 1 has closed their only chair lift converting themselves to a kids snow play area (I'd like to buy that ski field...or the others). One of the 3 ski fields i attended today has 14 chair lifts and used to have 30! Tomorrow night i will move to one of Japan's most famous ski areas where there are 3 closed ski fields and the remaining ski field (while having one of the largest on snow hotels in japan) has about half of the lifts and 2/3 the terrain of the glorious end of the 20th century. I walked through the town tonight there is empty boarded up hotels everywhere, many of which would have been ski in ski out or at worst a 200m ealk to the chair lift.
I think the bike industry will ride the boom a little longer yet.
One other thing...while I was in Tokyo I went to a Cafe I have wanted to visit for a few years (not the mega Starbucks! I go there in shame all the time). It was quite cool but particularly has a place of significance for me as this was the first japanese business I have been to that does not accept cash! I don't generally carry a card with me here because cash remains king...luckily I had the correct money.
silentbutdeadly
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I find myself in a strange and yet slightly familiar place...once again without a MTB.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
And where would that be?
Jabubu
let you google that for me
Are you near Sapporo?
Fred Nurk
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Peter Gabriel was right...
pink poodle
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Last morning with this view. Not as much fresh snow down as I would have liked, but plenty of fresh lines to be had.
Sometimes you do need to shock the monkey.
No I'm on Honshu. Will be moving around niigata and nagano until march. I may go up into tohoku at the end Chasing spring snow, but that is undecided as yet.
silentbutdeadly
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Then? Christchurch. Now I'm in a place that I can't reliably pronounce because English is hard enough without throwing Maori at me. Twizel. Tis a silly place. Which is ok too.
pink poodle
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Some strange sculptures...the "female" is all anatomical up under that blue "skirt". There is a long explanation about it on that little sign that Google didn't translate so well, basically age 42 is a year of bad luck for men so they get together an carve a big wooden dick then have a festival to ward off bad luck and build comraderie.
nzhumpy
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I'm more interested in what's happening outside the window, looks bluebird.
pink poodle
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That was yesterday and it was mint. Plenty of fresh snow left over from the big storm, soft lush grommers, and fuck all people. It got a touch warm around lunch time but not enough for a melt.
Today has been gently snowing all day, cold, soft lush groomers, and a little bit of fresh snow still available for some chops, and even less people.
I except a few cm over night, but not enough to slide the bindings back! There is some patchy cover here (Naeba) on the easier runs, likely due to lower than usual snow fall and crowds of noobs over the weekend. Luckily there is another dump expected in a day or two.
pink poodle
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@nzhumpy - here's a sample if yesterday for you that isn't obscured by a big woody.
@Jabubu - as per my comment in your bike industry crisis thread...every hotel in this row is closed, some for long enough to be falling apart. There is ski a run straight past them, a big carpark behind them, 2 chairlifts you can slide to that connect to a pretty big resort that further connects to 2 other resorts all on the same lift pass, a bus stop that for 3 different free shuttle buses around the resort and back to the main train station for a bullet train connection to Tokyo. Behind me (when I took the photo) was a bigger cluster of closed and run down pensions. Some if those still had their signs/flags out despite showing signs of disrepair that would be related to years of closure and neglect. This resort is one of the few in japan throwing serious cash at revitalising itself while others around it close in a town that is currently seeing a boom of Chinese snow tourists. It is mind boggling sometimes.
pink poodle
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I am the carb load king! The pension I am at currently does a 5 course dinner each night (soup, pasta, rice, protein, dessert). Well tonight I had pasta, rice, and potatoes!
Dessert was a coffee jelly type dish. It was fucking awesome. I plan to steal this when I get home.
Dessert was a coffee jelly type dish. It was fucking awesome. I plan to steal this when I get home.