Jan 1 - Shiga Kogen

After our freezing New Year Shrine visit we stayed in bed and didn't go to breakfast until 8am. After this it was getting back into the swing of skiing. We geared up and headed to our locker to gear up some more. We stepped out into a lovely day at -5 degrees and little wind. Some clouds were sporadically rolling in but no snow.

We rode the quad chair up and did C3 before heading over to the hooded quad and doing the D1 run. Then after that we did D2 to Price East for a vending machine can of hot choc and corn soup. Then we rode the gondola up and skied down B3 to Prince west. Then we rode the quad chair to the top and did E3, to hooded quad before doing the D2 run and back to the gondola. From here it was 12, so we headed back to Prince West, where we stashed our skis and headed to Ramen corner for lunch. I had the butter corn ramen.

The kids and I had a rest and a warm up while hubby kept skiing. At 2:20 we headed back dow to meet hubby, except I forgot my gloves, so I had to take my ski boots off again, then go up to the room and get them, before putting my ski boots on for the third time. While I was doing that the kids and Jason did one run of C1. I then met up with them and we did another lap, then headed over to D1, did a lap there, then headed to the gondola and came back to the hotel via C3.

At 5pm we were going to go for an onsen, but it was packed, so Dale and I came back up to the room while the boys onsened. AT 6pm we had success at a much quieter onsen, and a free washing machine. After bathing and laundry was done we decided that none of us were really hungry, so we had cup noodle for dinner. They were really nice.Read more