Mountain Biking with Dan!

So I’m back on a Mountain bike after a good number of years just riding a bike to work and back. Hakuba has quite a few really good trails but they can be tricky to find as I found out.
I got some beta on the Minagata Downhill course so we tried to head up and hit the course.
The key word is tried!

Dan was in fine form and loving being back on a back again. Last summer He rode coast to coast in Canada and since that ride he just didn’t feel like biking. Dan being Dan though he was back in form within 2 minutes.

Dan was so far ahead at one point I screamed at him to stop. We then proceeded to climb 2 private mountains, meet one lady with the worst breathe I have ever encountered and still have a ball.

We found quite a few cool easy fire road climbs and easy Down hills. Not exactly what we want to ride but heck it was fun.

Fact though my Downhill ride climbs like a pig!

Korenge

The tour was supposed to head way behind Mt. ShiroUma but,,,, as things turned out that just couldnt be done. We went with plan C and toured behind Mt. Korenge instead. This by all means wasnt a let down.Ive always wanted to ski Korenge's North facing spines and chutes. A sick area that will have to be skied again for sure.

As it turned out the snow wouldve been dangerous for our planned route down shakushi. Too much of the old snow from the week before that still had not slid of of the faces.

To Bruno who hopefully can do one more tour thanks for coming out I had a blast. I wish that you would stay but Im happy that you are moving on to bigger and better things.
Not a bad plan C

My first line of the day!

Sunsets at 2300 meters are nice.
Jer finding a sweet hole again Maching away from a sluff slide man what a line

I like this pic cause it shows both of my lines from the weekend. Look close and youll see where I dropped into a steep face chute thing. I dont know what to call it but nice.

Big phat open spring corn! Dont put the boards away come out and freaking play!

The last powder day of the season

I love skiing it is by far my favorite thing to do in this world. We got really lucky in April and had a foot of fresh snow on a spring soft layer. This made for some really bottomless turns that allowed us take some very good pictures. My good Friend Marc has become a trusted man behind the lens. On this day we headed out to Mumezawa about 1 to 2 hours climb off of the back of HappOne ski resort.


I the spring you only ever get one run we decided to play around a bit more. We built a little jump but the landing wasnt as good as it looked.



After that we all decided to try and take a shot on a certain feature. I saw this amazing slash chance and Marc took a great picture.
As always there are creeks to cross in the spring. Ben, Jer, Marc and I had a fun time building the bridge of rocks. It is deeper than it looks!

Thanks boys!