Travel in Japan

The GoPro HD Hero2 has landed, check out the quality of the video below – AMAZING! GoPro cameras are used by everyone in the snow industry and just just by the Pros! You see them attached to helmets, goggle straps and camera poles and if the above video is anything to go by, the HD Related posts: Long Time Niseko Local Sees His First Bear Niseko Wild Bills Review Eero Ettala – Japan Webisode

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Product Review: GoPro – HD Hero2

Aren’t you bored going to Japan every year? I get asked this question a lot nowadays. Well, just like Malaysia, there are plenty of places in Japan that we have yet to visit

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Aren’t You Tired Of Japan Yet?

The small amount of rainfall in Niseko this morning, likely to be followed by fresh snow tomorrow, serves to highlight the potential dangers of avalanches in the backcountry. Snow packs don’t handle quick changes well so rapid changes in weather can have bad effects on the snow. If the bond between upper layers of the snow pack are weak, rain and changes in temperature can be factors that contribute to layers in a triggered area fracturing which could result in a slide

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Avalanche Safety

The 2010 Sapporo Snow Festival, held from 5th to 11th February, is still a couple of weeks from now but preparations are well underway. In Odori Park masses of snow have been brought in from sites around the city, built up and surrounded by scaffolding in preparation for the epic snow sculptures to be formed over the coming days

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61st Sapporo Snow Festival

What a morning! The snow gods were predicted to bring us at least 20cm overnight and they ended up giving us 40. It was very cold, with the wind chill taking the temperature down to around -25ºC, resulting in light, dry powder and lots of it.

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Predicting Snow