Day 7 - All Mountain Shiga Kogen

Day 7 - All Mountain Shiga Kogen

This morning we began using our 3 day all-mountain passes. Oscar's and mine were purchased at half price via the Go-Nagano site. We went to the linking chair to Diamond, but it does not open until 8:50, we did a warm up run on good old C1 at Prince West.

After this it was up the link chair, down Diamond, up the small cgair and across the road bridge to Ichinose Family. The top here we were treated to some awesome views, as the lingering cloud was high ove rthe mountains. From here we went straight to Terakoya, where we did a few runs, the snow quality all day was very crunchy, with the occasional patch of ice, and occasional softened snow.

After Terakoya we headed over to Higashidateyama following the meandering track down to Hoppo Bunadaira. Here at the base of Giant we went and had some morning tea at Alpen Shiga, where we had some delicious pasteries. They are so good and only 250yen.

From the base of Giant, we decided to head left onto the quad chair and do a run of Nishidateyama. The green run here was nice, so were the views. Next was the run down to the chair and up Takamagahara chair. We did a few runs here, then hit up the pizza place that elSpike recommended. The pizzas were very good, but the fries were outstanding, and only 300yen.

After our lunch stop, we had a play at Tanne no Mori, and did a few of their short runs. From here it was a run at Family, and back across to Yakebitaiyama, finishing off with a run down good old C1. Then it was definitely onsen time.

Dinner tonight was at the Junk Food Cafe again, karaage, Hot dogs and chips. Followed by some vending machine Hagan Daas ice cream.Lue lisää