Jan 6 - Shiga Kogen - Yakebitaiyama

Today was our last day skiing, and we had Yakebitaiyama only lift passes. So we had had breakfast and were geared up before they opened the lifts. We joined the 50 or so people waiting the 5 mins until lifts opened at 8:30am.

From here we did a C1 run and rode the lift up again. It was noticeably colder today at -10, and there was a small bit of wind in places. C1 was groomed corduroy, not very soft, I was expecting a bit of powderon top, there was none. After this run we headed to our favourite spot the D runs off the hooded quad.

We rode this area a bit, doing many runs through the powder and trees that hubby and the kids enjoyed - while I filmed from a safe distance. We took a hot choc break at Prince West vendo to warm up at about 10:30am. A 11am we decided to ride gondola 2 up and skied over to C2, it was very wind exposed here, and these runs have been effected by the cold and wind. It was not a nice run, and frozen us.

As it was only 11:30, we headed back to the sanctuary of the D runs and had a run or 2 more before heading once again to gondola 2 and then down B2 to C1 to take us back to the Prince. Once here we had promised the kids a play at the snow play park, so a few runs were had here on the snow bikes and toboggans until about 12.

Then it was time to pack up all the ski gear and ship it off to the airport, at luggage delivery counter closes at 3pm. Once we had re-packed, and sent the 2x ski bags, and a large rolling duffle for $140. After this we had about 10mins until last orders for lunch, so we just went the to eat at Prince West. By 3pm, we had retired to our room for some rest.

At 5pm we went for an onsen, at 6:30pm we decided to skip dinner and just do dessert.Read more