Day Five : Part Two - #Japow

Japan Powder - this is what we came for. It snowed all night last night and all day today and it is still snowing. I think they had about half a metre of fresh snow over night. As John says there are no friends on a powder day, so it was each to their own today. We did meet up at various points, at the bottom of chairlifts and even on the runs sometimes. And we had our usual lunchtime meeting place and time organised. Powder is fun, but it is really hard work.

Sheree, Casey and I stopped for a mid morning hot chocolate to rest our legs, Anthony joined us - John and Marnie refused to leave the powder until they had used up every bit of it! Marg had headed off to Hanazono for the morning and had a plan to meet us at lunchtime by coming across the top. The wind was so bad up high that she ended up catching the bus back to the Hirafu chairlift and meeting us that way. 

After lunch we went our separate ways, as it was still snowing we kept getting fresh snow. I explored some runs I hadn't been on before and found some nice places along the edges of the runs. After a few runs - I did my usual early afternoon finish and ran into Marg at the bus stop. We stopped off at the ski shop on the way home to change our skis over. I have some fatter powder skis to try out tomorrow and Marg has skis that she can get into without getting help. She was having lots of trouble with her bindings. John also changed his skis over as the powder skis he picked up this morning were too short and he had lots of trouble with them all day.

We are all very weary tonight - not sure how close to midnight we will get before we crash and burn. The young ones might have more hope than us. We are going out for tea and then not sure what we will do after that. 

Happy new year everyone - will be back in 2015