Hisashiburi! Did you miss us? It’s that time of year again… the middle of January and we are just getting around to posting our first blog of the season! But can you blame us for being a tad tardy? Heaps of fresh snow with consistent cold temps has given us plenty of powder to play [...]
We had quite the spread this year! 22 kilos of Roasted Turkey Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Rosemary Stuffing Cranberry -Orange Relish Sweet Potato Casserole Roasted Winter Vegetables Homemade Bread Rolls and Scones And for Desert… A traditional Bouche De Noel Pumpkin cheesecake New York Cheesecake Spiced Baked Apples with Vanilla Ice Cream All washed down [...]
Great Christmas! Two 11kilo Turkeys, all the trappings, roast veggies, and 40cm of fresh snow! = Lots of happy guests.
Eric, our new manager at Wadano lodge took a hike off the top of Happo today to check up on the conditions. About 2cm of snow in the valley had translated into knee deep above 2000m. Looking over from the first cairn to Tengu on the main ridge. Looking on towards the ridge up to [...]
It’s official! There’s plenty of snow in Hakuba! We were able to verify this by riding lap after lap of bottomless conditions today at Hakuba 47……our longest lift-line being about 12 seconds. This is great news for those coming up for a white Christmas in Hakuba and means you can put away your early season [...]
After a couple of weeks of being teased, winter has officially kicked in in full force! Friday morning had us cutting fresh line after line of 30cm deep powder off line c at Hakuba 47……and today all our guests came back from Happo wearing big smiles with tales of bottomless conditions! The good news is, [...]
Our first guests of the 2007/2008 ski season arrived for two days of R&R at Morino Lodge. The kids outnumbered adults and activities included hide and seek in the massive cavernous maze of Morino lodge, some kind of video game that involved jumping up and down and waving your arms, sledging and singing christmas carols [...]
