D7- More all mountain

Our morning routine is just that now - routine. Today we headed off on the bus for Gondola 2 and made way for Okushiga kogen. It is a bluebird day with high temps in the low teens.

We traversed the up hill both way traverse and enjoyed some runs down the Okushiga side. We made our way over to the chairs and the kids love the run through the trees with the animal spotting. We did this a few times on the slowest chair.

Off to the left side was a nice untouched field of snow...well that was until we got to it. We did some snow flops, some angels and some playing around in the snow.

After this we were hot, so went to the cafe, but decided to just grab some water and head over to Hi Happy for lunch. So we rode the three chairs up to get out of Okushiga and back over the the Yakebitaiyama side. Here we rode down B1 to C2. Hubby had a look at C4 and decided not to. We got on the chair to Diamond and rode down in to Hi Happy at 12:30.

After more delightful pork katsu subs and a curry we left lunch at 1pm, very glad to get back out into the cool after the hot restaurant. Our destination was Terakoya, so we crossed the bridge chair and rode Family quad up, then traversed I to Terakoya. I liked it here and we did a nice red run, there was a bit of a crowd to ride the chair, the kids wanted to leave.

Our next run there was a communication/navigation error, I steadily of going down to the chair at the bottom left, they took the traverse off to the left, that took us to Hasidate, Hoppo-bunadaira. So we followed this until the small old gondola. The gondola took us back up, and I was able to show them where the chair would have dropped us.

We then rode down Family, across to Diamond and back to the Prince at about 3pm. Today was warm, the snow was a bit slushy, a bit sand like in places. But the blue sky and the views were always nice.

We headed off to the Junk food cafe for dinner, hot dogs followed by crepes.Read more