Jan 3 - Shiga Kogen - All Mountain

It was a rinse repeat of the past few days, breakfast, gear up and go. This time however there was about 25cm of powder.

We did a run of C1 first up and the connection chair to Diamond was not open. Here we got to experience some boot deep powder. It was awesome. Hubby fell twice. After this we rode the connection chair to Diamond.

Here we experienced what it was like to get stuck in powder. My skis and ability are not cut out for this. We made it to the bottom of Diamond and did a run of the green run that goes off toward the Prince hotel. After this we went up and across the road to Family, doing the green run there. Following this was a ride up the pair chair to the Tanne no mori crossing. Tanbe was awesome for the one run we did, then up the chair and across to Takamagahara - my least favourite spot, as I had my first fall in the powdery moguls, hubby also fell again. At the bottom we had a rest and a warm up at 11am. Feeling bloody exhausted.

After our short rest we crossed the road and skied Nishidateyama, it was a bit more lumpy here and wind blown, making it not as enjoyable. We did a couple of runs before heading to Tanne no mori and we did a run or two here before heading over to the Prince via Family and Diamond, finishing up with a lumpy C1 run. At the Prince we grabbed lunch as it was 2pm. They cooked hubby as salt and pepper steak with no sauce, S12 had the pork cutlet curry and D15 and myself had the spaghetti bolognaise, then we decided to call it a day as we were all exhausted.

We retired to our room for some screens and snacks through the afternoon. I meet up with an old colleague who is here with their family and had a catch up.Read more