Short and sweet due to the process of managing images with borrowed laptops and typing on foreign language keyboards.

Hooked up with snowsavage for the second time since I’ve been in Japan. Went to Myoko with one of his co-workers and found ourselves looking into the crater of an ancient volcano. Lower in the valley, we could see steam escaping and every once in a while we could smell the rotten egg sulfur smell. Looking in the opposite direction provided a view of the mountains of Hakuba. A very scenic summit.

We dropped to the right of the branch that intersects the ridge

Snowsavage dropping in

I find some powder. Sorta.


This damage resulting in me booting up the final 300 or so feet out of the crater.