In Hokkaido

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by Joel
16 Mar, 2009

As last weeks warmer weather showed us spring is on the way, but as you can see from Simon's photo's the winter still has some bite left. The snow arrived just in time for the weekend and word on the street was that Rusutsu had some great snow.Unfortunately being the weekend and due to a rumored lift outage it had to be shared among quite a few, not bad for the middle of March though.

Speaking of weekends another one of Japans frequent public holidays is looming, this one celebrating the spring equinox, great news for the working folk!! And what better way to celebrate a holiday than with a party. The good people from S.P.I.N. and A.Life Sapporo are putting on an international party so after the day on the couch or the hill come out for a nite on the town.
See ya there!
http://alife.jp/pc/schedule/200903.html
www.myspace.com/sappororythm






Comments

Emma

24 March 2009 - 10:34pm

Hey, we are coming to Japan in mid-April and want to head up to Hokkaido for some snowboarding. How is the snow there and do you think it's worth coming to snowboard there? Is it true some places are closing early becuase of the lack of snow? Been finding it really hard to get accurate information in English on what the season has been like.

Simon

10 April 2009 - 9:38am

Well, the mountains are still open here, great spring skiing to be had! The mountain is open till the end of Golden week which is the first week in May.