2015 Japan Winter Trips now open!

We've revamped the whole website - changing the layout and adding pages for some of the main areas we go to in Japan and NZ.

But most importantly, we've launched our 2015 Japan Winter Trips! If you want to beat the crowds and get out to some of Hokkaido's best skiing, head over to our info page for more details on our great road-trips.

We've also started up our facebook, twitter and instagram feeds, so like or follow us to keep up with what we're doing. I'll be heading to NZ in a few days, which always produces a few good stories and the occasional epic monoskiing photo, so hopefully we can keep the updates coming.

Back on skis

It's good to be back on skis! I've been stuck in Australia getting an injury figured out, but that's finally sorted so I've put some extra-large kneepads on and hit Watson's Crags here in Australia to test everything out. So far so good! I'll be up again later in the week to see if anything in the backcountry is in good condition. Last time I was up Mt Carruthers looked perfect, so hopefully it hasn't turned into a wall of solid ice.

I also head to New Zealand on Saturday. It sounds like there's a bit of snow falling (finally) in the Craigieburns. Temple Basin has just opened, and Broken River is hoping to spin their tows after this storm clears out. Fingers crossed that it doesn't come down as rain. Plus it sounds like the glaciers have been getting plenty of snow during the winter, so I'm heading up next week to climb some peaks and earn some (hopefully steep) turns.

We're expecting to expand the website and launch our 2015 Japan trips soon. Stay tuned.

On the ground

Wow! I'm in Japan. I think I'll be kicked out of this library soon, so I'll keep this short.

So far I've had a quick look at Teine Highlands near Sapporo and I'm right near Niseko tonight so I'll head there tomorrow. Teine is pretty cool. Most of the upper part of the mountain was closed due to high wind and low viz, but it's got a bunch of steep terrain and some fun-looking trees. I'm taking things very easy at the moment to recover from an injury, so I didn't try anything too spectacular. It will be great to head back there in a few days with some of the guys from the trial trip and see what the rest of the hill is like.

More updates are to come. You can follow some of the (terrible) pics I'm taking on instagram: @thepowderproject

Two Weeks...

Woah! I fly to Sapporo in two weeks! I'm psyched about getting back to winter and nervously excited about getting started with all the business stuff. There's heaps to do: Vehicles to buy, accommodation to organise, insurance to demystify, powder to ski. Also, new Kingswoods. Woop! It sounds like the season there is suitably epic so I'm looking forward to booting up and getting amongst it.

 

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