We spent the day riding at another mountain - Yokoteyama - home of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics Alpine Course. Yokoteyama is situated on the other side of the main mountain but remains part of Shiga Kogen.
The landscape and scenary at Yokoteyama was breathtaking. It was almost as if someone splashed a gargantuan bucket of thick white paint and then froze time and physics at the point of impact. The trees looked like cauliflowers, and the buildings looked like replicas from Krypton (in the Christopher Reeves version of Superman and assuming that there are buildings on Krypton).
It was simply spectacular ... despite the malodorous chemical fumes (mixture of egg and fart) that radiated from the onsens. At first I thought it was our heavy breakfast (someone did eat THREE eggs that morning), but when it stuck around like a bad smell (heh), the blame quickly shifted to non-human causes.
Minutes away from Nagano Station now ...
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I think the smell came from the minor volcanic eruption at Mt Asama...either that or someone must have been having too many raw eggs for breakfast back at the hotel....ahem...girls !!!
ReplyDeleteI think the smell came from the minor volcanic eruption at Mt Asama...either that or someone must have been having too many raw eggs for breakfast back at the hotel....ahem...girls !!!
ReplyDeleteI actually think this was my favourite day out on the snow...not powder epic in my definition but a great day of hooning around, doing some jumps into the soft stuff. We explored, and found the tree area skiing I was looking for. There was hardly any people around as well, and we had to get kicked off the mountain when I still wanted to board. What a beautiful and great day to finish...Japan has not let us down yet....but YEN to AUD you suck !!!
ReplyDeleteI actually think this was my favourite day out on the snow...not powder epic in my definition but a great day of hooning around, doing some jumps into the soft stuff. We explored, and found the tree area skiing I was looking for. There was hardly any people around as well, and we had to get kicked off the mountain when I still wanted to board. What a beautiful and great day to finish...Japan has not let us down yet....but YEN to AUD you suck !!!
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