Japanese ski slopes have something very good: snow

Skiing resorts in Japan is precious to some of the deepest and lightest dust around. A winter with an unusual snow – some areas had more than 12 feet snowballs this week – a skier or snowboarding should be the dream.

The ski area in Japan is “Super Greater and Super Gnarly”, Austrian professional Skier Tao Kreibich, 27, He said in a video About a recent excursion in the country. “You can do some crazy things.”

Yes, but …

Although most of Japan’s 500 or ski areas Holds the Banner SeasonGiant snow shifts caused the difficulties raising the gains and safety concerns.

For Resort employees, a spokesman for Washigatake ski resort, which has the largest slipper in every decade, Shinichi IMOTO, said shinichi imoto. “If it doesn’t fall, there are concerns, and it is concerned if it’s too much.”

Some resorts were forced to close elevators Give more time to groom. The road closure has cut access to visitors. In some places there are more skiers and snowboarders than usual lost Pasted in scandal or avalanches.

Operations returned to normal in many ski resorts across the country. The effect of snow storms last month – the reason for the closure of the school and the cancellation of trains and flights is still felt.

In the Kagura ski resort, a few hundred miles of washing in the northeast of washing, visitor numbers, the abdomen and abdomen, a spokesperson said, Kazuto HaraWa.

Forced an unusual heavy snow resort to close six times last month. With the miles of the resort, along with the rising, did not help a nearby highway closing a nearby highway. “We live in a record-breaking snow and we have run out of staff,” resort Said social media At the end of February.

Snow, as well as for about 12 miles from Kagura, forced Yuzawa Snow resort, the first closure of about 12 miles for a day in late February – for more than 30 years. One spokesman, Takashi Onozuka, the snowfall of this season, described as “honest disaster levels” last year.

During the last cold snap, customers said they were pleased with the quality of the abdomen: “It is tough for workers, although.”

Although the ski lift, stops and other areas are cleaned, it offers safety risks on strong snow and backgrounds.

Threes are trapped in the trees, tend to take into account the majority of skiing death in the United States, according to To the information of the National Skiing Interior Union. The causes of other deaths include avalanches and are deep, empty snow around large trees.

In Japan, the northern island of Hokkaido, since January 20, according to the local police, two times more than the previous season, said 28 of the 28 incidents they were closed in the mountains. This information is Obihiro, a city in the southern part of Hokkaido, in early February, Took 50 inches of snow More than 12 hours, the National Record.

The Austrian skier Mr. Kreibich knows a little about the risks of skiing from the runway.

He and a camera, 28-year-old Gabriel Koschier flew to Japan in early February, because the snow in the Alps was not particularly good. They went to a resort in the Hakuba Valley Hosted events For the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympiad.

They took a lift to the highest spot of the resort and got up for an hour, and Pristine Chair was looking for an area. “Although I do not chase snow all over the world, I think I do not see so much snow.”

Although the sun shines and dust excludes, Mr. Kreibich and Mr. Koschier, a wind, as compacted on a wind, began to see cracks in the snowball. Mr. Kreibich said he felt the abdomen under his feet “a little strange”.

Then Mr Koschier slipped about 1,000 feet in an avalanche. Survived, shaken, but it’s naughty. Although the moving snow is deep enough to bury it, slipped on the bottom, not under.

After Mr. Koschier found the ski, the couple returned to the cine resort into a subtle area. “From this point, we were pleased to get down and get it easy,” Mr. Kreibich said.

On that night, they were lucky to have their chances.