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Japan gets its 'hatsuyuki' - first snow!
THE first snow has fallen in Japan in the lead up to winter 2009/10, on the 1984m peak of Mt Kurodake,the Kyodo News Agency has reported.
Last year's first snow fall was on Mt Asahidake - Hokkaido's highest peak - on September 24 so
Kurodake: Black Mountain Calling
WHILE Niseko offers a dream-like landscape of lift-accessed, fluffy powder runs for the masses, beyond the bright lights there are mountains of consequence to be found in Hokkaido. Standing above them all is Kurodake – Black Mountain. Long-time Niseko and Hokkaido local Dale Riva is one of many die-hard mountain men who has been seduced by
Locals spend night on Kurodake, central Hokkaido
A GROUP of six foreign Niseko locals is spending a cold night outdoors on remote Mt Kurodake in central Hokkaido after failing to return to the base of the mountain by nightfall.
They were part of a larger group of 11 that hiked to
Kurodake skiers, boarders rescued safely
ALL six foreign Niseko skiers and snowboarders who were stranded on Mt Kurodake have been found safe and well after spending the night in a snow cave.
A 50-person search and rescue party set off early this morning and the missing people
Hokkaido: powder snow Disneyland
ON its own, Niseko is an amazing place to go skiing. So much so that since it has been ‘discovered’ by the outside world in the past 10 years or so, it has gone from sleepy, locals’ ski hill to world-renowned international ski resort. The four interlinked resorts provide enough terrain to keep many locals from ever wanting to
Reader article: Pilgrimage to Kurodake
The heavens open for Derek Begley and his fellow powder worshippers
Kamikawa National Park, in central north Hokkaido, is known in the local Ainu dialect as ‘the playground of the gods’.
In early November, some of the strongest disciples of the Holy Church of Hokkaido Powder converged on a lodge at the
