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Glancing at the calendar, we figured our share of powder was sadly coming to an end here in Japan. But luckily the J snow gods dumped about 30cm of good snow. Sunday had beautiful weather, so we decided to go for a longer hike in search of some new lines.

*Packing up at the trailhead. 2 splitboarders, 3 boarders, 2 skiers:


*Breaking trail after about 1.5 hours. Our target was a south face so we were racing against time. All the while we were passing up some pretty sweet lines below us. Oh well, can't get too greedy:


*Um, it was pretty windy here. It's always like that:


*Ice, steeps and wind convince us half-way up to stow the splits and kick-step to the top (we had Verts with us). Might've been able to skin up with crampons, but nope didn't bring'em today.


*First-tracks by telemarker Otsuka-san. First one up, first on down.


*Short hike back up, then some tai-chi-chuan route-finding:


*Going down the roller-coaster:


All in all a great day. Rode some new lines and will be back for more later.

Really cool to see you guys splitboarding in Japan. Nice looking terrain and good snow.

Sweet Trip Report, looks like it was a blast.

Jim