Wednesday, February 02, 2005
This isn't steep . .
Wow -- what a big 24 hours. After our last post yesterday afternoon, we went to an onsen, had another full day skiing AND went night skiing. But first things first . . .
After posting the previous entry late yesterday afternoon, we headed to La Ponte to the Grand Hotel for an onsen. It is very hard to explain (and obviously, given it is basically a nude public bath, not appropriate for photos) this won't do it justice. All I can say is I'm happy to leave hot tubs and saunas to the common people!
This morning it was snowing -- and windy, and as we headed up the mountain, the wind was bitter and blowing almost east -- versus the north-west (Siberian) winds normal. We changed plans and headed back to An'nupuri, where we found sun, mild temperatures and lots of snow. After a good few hours in the powder, we returned to Hirafu for some night skiing.
There is a huge storm moving in (according to the locals) and while it was clear during our night ski, we understand that it will move in overnight, so we were lucky to get what weather we did! Check out the photos of Mt Youtei (very rare apparently) and others I have painstakingly uploaded . . . :-)
We only have two more days here, so I promise, if the powder isn't interesting you, we'll have "normal" photos by Saturday/Sunday. . .
After posting the previous entry late yesterday afternoon, we headed to La Ponte to the Grand Hotel for an onsen. It is very hard to explain (and obviously, given it is basically a nude public bath, not appropriate for photos) this won't do it justice. All I can say is I'm happy to leave hot tubs and saunas to the common people!
This morning it was snowing -- and windy, and as we headed up the mountain, the wind was bitter and blowing almost east -- versus the north-west (Siberian) winds normal. We changed plans and headed back to An'nupuri, where we found sun, mild temperatures and lots of snow. After a good few hours in the powder, we returned to Hirafu for some night skiing.
There is a huge storm moving in (according to the locals) and while it was clear during our night ski, we understand that it will move in overnight, so we were lucky to get what weather we did! Check out the photos of Mt Youtei (very rare apparently) and others I have painstakingly uploaded . . . :-)
We only have two more days here, so I promise, if the powder isn't interesting you, we'll have "normal" photos by Saturday/Sunday. . .
# posted by KLS : 23:07
