Ville is reporting regularly from Japan on Homeboyski.com during this winter. This text has been translated from Finnish to English, and edited where needed for non-Finnish audience. The original text can be found in Finnish at Ville’s blog. For this seasons first post and an introduction by Ville, click here.
February 4th. The life is smiling with a couple of really good ski days behind us. Before that we had a week of pretty bad snow, rain on the mountain is not good for skiing. Now we finally had a good dump of snow, no idea about the official numbers, but definitely enough for some nice skiing. Not feeling the crust underneath and there would’ve been enough faceshots to share with my neighbors, no complaints. Life has been good otherwise also, I could move to this place. There’s some new snow in the forecast for tomorrow and the day over, but I think I’m going to concentrate on skiing and leave the camera at home. It’s such a heavy, big thing and the thought of falling on it does not appeal to me, so I find myself taking it a bit slower with the camera in my backpack. Next week should be warm so I’m probably going to visit the beach. Have to go and throw a stone into the Pacific Ocean while I’m in the hood. Here’s some photos from the last few days.
Kaisa
Kalle
Kirsti, Denmark’s gift to freeskiing
Me
7th February. What a great day. Nearly a week of continuous snowfall and then today the sun finally came out. Yesterday we had maybe the deepest powder I’ve ever skied in my life, I managed to ski into a tree since I couldn’t see anything after getting my goggles covered by snow after a faceshot. I quickly swiped the goggles clean while skiing and the first thing I see is a tree in front of me. Nothing serious happened though and the skiing continued. One thing is clear now, Ville is tougher than a Japanese tree.
The snow had settled quite a bit during the last night and was great for skiing. Not the most perfect faceshot-blower-powder, but damn fun to ski. During the afternoon the clouds went away and we moved to the sunny side of the hill to hunt for this trip’s first sunny powder photos. We got couple good photos out of it, with Kalle getting the best photos of the day and me being on the other side of the lens for a change. A very nice day indeed. Tomorrow, if the weather allows we’ll go and check some of the bigger lines on Happo. There rain and high freezing levels forecasted for Tuesday but luckily we should have more snow on Wednesday. So no big catastrophe.
Lars
Lars
Kaisa
Kaisa
Kalle
Ville (that’s me), photo by Kalle Karikoski
Ville, photo by Kalle Karikoski
Ville, photo by Kalle Kariskoski
Towards home we go
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Oh boy.. looks so much fun. Very nice shots!
Sick photos!