First off I have to apologize as there aren’t many photos as we were too busy filming the whole trip but here are a few shots the were taken on over the next 4 weeks. By now it was my

After spending a few days attempting to do what we could to help Leigh get his stuff in order and buying a new van Dan and I made the decision to head down to the village and get a bit

By now it was my third trip to Japan and I had everything pretty much dialed. After flying in I dropped most my gear off with the Black Cat baggage service and for 30USD$ I had nothing but my primary

It had been well over 2 months and still no real big storms in Japan but Ben’s time was running short so after a small dusting of snow it was time to show him our go to tour on the

The day after riding Yokoteyama we came up with another mission to start from the same zone but do a traverse a few peaks out to go check out a slope that looked nice on Google Maps so we were

As time went on and with Ben in town we decided to do a bit of exploring and stumbled across a zone in Yokoteyama where with a little bit of lift riding and a little bit of skinning we would

By Mid January we were getting desperate for snow. Here I was in Japan for a month and a half in the worst season in many years. By now we were taking people who had planned the trip months in

When I arrived there was no snow in the lowlands and barely anything in the mountains. Being there for skiing we were hooked on weather forecasts but day after day it was too warm and was falling as rain in

When the weather clears in can be a rare thing in but by mid February we caught a weather window and decided to drive a few hours over to a volcanic complex known as Myoko Kogen. Being on the coast

By late February the whole vibe of the resort changed. There were far less tourists and there with that being far less tracks in the backcountry. We had gone from only a few people out there to relatively no one.