Report from Saturday, January 18
At this time, I skied the deepest run of my life.
It was over waist peak.
And I don’t imply it was spraying up over my waist. I used to be snowboarding in three toes of snow over my waist.
Deep, mild, fluffy powder.
Easy, bouncing turns.
Face pictures and vast grins.
We began our day with the Ace gondola, adopted by the King Hooded Quad #3. Then, after using the notorious pizza field chair, we ditched our plan to hike to the height. Judging by the road trudging up forward of us, it’d be skied out as soon as we bought there; not definitely worth the 30-minute or extra hike. As a substitute, we traversed skiers’ left and skied 12″ of contemporary snow. It was a little bit tracked out, however there have been nonetheless little pockets to hit. This set the scene for the remainder of the day.
That took us to gate G5, on the prime of the Hanazono Hooded Quad #3. As we entered, most individuals have been heading left and spherical. We determined to ski straight off the face into the bushes.
It was deep. Waist deep. I wasn’t anticipating it, and it virtually caught me off guard.
We stored snowboarding via the bushes, staying parallel to the gulley, and located knee-to-waist-high snow. This was at 10:30-11 a.m. I couldn’t imagine it hadn’t already been skied off.
It was so good that we did a do-over. Straight again up and thru G5 once more, taking a barely completely different line, we continued to search out outrageously deep snow.
The second time round, we carried on and (after a brief hike) skied down Miharashi. Deep, forgiving, powder moguls. Rock star bumps.
That is Niseko at its best possible. Regardless of the Saturday crowds (which, to be truthful, weren’t too unhealthy; the raise strains transfer fairly rapidly), we might discover deep, untracked snow everywhere in the mountain. Even the pistes nonetheless had knee-deep powder on them after midday.
We stored dipping into tree runs simply off the principle runs and discovering untracked, deep snow all day.
The sky was blue, the temperature was good, and there was no wind. If Carlsberg did ski days…
The stories say we had 14″ of contemporary snow in a single day, on prime of the ten″ the day before today, for a complete of 38″ within the final 5 days. It skied far more than this.
Our solely mistake was after going via gate G9. We stored going too far and traversing parallel to the gulley for a lot too lengthy. Fortunately, others earlier than us had already damaged path, so we knew we have been heading in the right direction. However it was an pointless diversion that took about half-hour longer than wanted.
Should you like powder–deep powder–Niseko is your paradise. The rumors are true. Guide your powder pilgrimage. When you’ve got an Ikon Cross, you solely want flights and a mattress to sleep in. What’s stopping you? You gained’t remorse it.
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