It seems that it has been the warmest winter ever since I moved into Hakuba 20 years ago. We had some snowfalls last night, it made the scenery look like real winter as trees got some snow. Maybe because of some clouds around the top, lower slopes were crowded this morning.
It's always fun to find footprints of animals when we get new snow. I guess they are probably ones of a fox. If it's a rabbit's one, it looks pretty different.
Went to Hakuba Goryu on 12th and Sun-Alpine today with our customers from Melbourne. Young boys of 22 years old and an old fart of 48 years old. Must look as if a bad father took care of his sons. Unfortunately we had a heavy condition like a blizzard when we tried Hakuba Goryu but we did revenge when we visited Sun-Alpine. I feel it somehow mysterious whenever I find new snow on a sunny morning.
Boys whom I went there together are from Melbourne, they are pretty young enough but I am not any more, so probably I am inferior to them in physically but this old man knows the ski slopes much better than they - where something is, where to rest etc. So he tried to have them all flat lane which snowboarders really hate. But actually we need to do that when we move from Sanosaka to Aokiko and opposite. Being young is always nice, they kept getting in new snow which skiers can hardly do because it's difficult for skiers to get out of it when they get in there.
Most ski slopes in Hakuba give people some mountainious views but in Sun-alpine there are many woody tracks around. A bit unique.
Took a movie clip when the boys were snowboarding at one of Aokiko ski slopes.
Beautiful view of Aokiko from Sanosaka. It does not seem to get frozen yet. It could be because of the global warming. I bought a 1 day pass but needed to stop skiing earlier. Age sucks!!!! Can not hold sore muscles for some days. When I got back home, I found snow on the roof dropped off. Extra work to remove it. Probably I would have sore muscles all over tomorrow.
5 years? Most of my computers survived only around 5 years. My main laptop was dead previous October, I needed to repair it with some $$$$. Got it back this month but the problem occured again. I went to the pc shop I had bought it and a staff worried if I had installed any softwares or not. He said it might have caused the problem.
I thought if we still lived in a primitive time! If it were 10 years ago, it might cause it because I was often told that. But can we survive with computers not installing any softwares? I don't think so.
I just tried to control my emotion when he said that. Went back home and reformat the C drive but the problem occured again and again. I gave up and ordered one online. The $$$$ I paid is just for the lesson fee!
Probably we need to be ready to get a new one every 4-5 year. :(
The subject line says it all, some upper ski slopes in Hakuba will get in business tomorow - Nov.21st 2008. Hakuba Goryu, Hakuba47, Hakuba Happo one, Tsugaike are ready to go! Stay tuned!
Finally I created a QR code which leads cellular phone web accessings to one of our web pages for cellular phones when it is scanned right by your cellular phone camera. Since I just renewed my cellular phone, still have hard time to handle it.... I am not sure this QR code was created oorrectly to work or not lol.... Does your cellular show the page right?
I got a mysterious fax today. It says it's from IRS(Internal Revenue Service). I don't run any business in the states, don't invest any stockmarkets there. So I really wonder why I have to get it. Made a call at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to ask it. They sent an e-mail with some references.
The fax might be a phising, not sure. I have to make it clear. It's getting more convenient day by day lately but at the same time, we also get some mysterious things. We need to judge correct things carefully.
It seems that it has been the warmest winter ever since I moved into Hakuba 20 years ago. We had some snowfalls last night, it made the scenery look like real winter as trees got some snow. Maybe because of some clouds around the top, lower slopes were crowded this morning.
It's always fun to find footprints of animals when we get new snow. I guess they are probably ones of a fox. If it's a rabbit's one, it looks pretty different.
