mountain biking

NISEKO Adventure Company (NAC) is offering a new cycling adventure called the Ice and Snow Bike Tour.

NISEKO’s summer has stepped up a gear with this weekend’s opening of the Hanazono Activity Centre, complete with Hokkaido’s first cable wakeboard/waterski park, MTB Park, summer Bag Jump and more.

The Activity Centre is

70 TRUCKLOADS of dirt and a payload of hard work by a talented team of enthusiastic locals has brought the Hanazono Bike Park to life.

The bike park is one of the exciting new components of the Hanazono Activity Centre, which is set to open on June 26, coinciding with the first Niseko Hanazono MTB Competition, a Japan Cycling

A STATE-OF-THE-ART bike and wakeboard park will be the centrepiece for Hanazono's year-round sports, adventure and activity resort, set to open this summer.

A STATE-OF-THE-ART bike and wakeboard park will be the centrepiece for Hanazono's year-round sports, adventure and activity resort, set to open this summer.

Up to 5km of cross country mountain bike tracks, trails and jumps, plus freeride terrain, along with a BMX-style 'pump' arena and a skills development area, will be built at Hanazono to

WHILE summers and winters come and go, one thing that remains constant in Niseko is the mountain. Fast forward to summer, and you can understand why there is such a strong mountain biking scene.

People usually ask two questions when they see local Canadian expat Andrew Caldwell with his snowscoot: 1. Is that thing fun? And 2. Why don’t you ride a snowboard? Obviously it’s fun or he wouldn’t do it! And the reason he’s a snowscooter rather than a snowboarder is that he’s a mad-keen mountain biker in the summer

There are probably lots of very technical ways to measure the maturity of holiday resort areas. But in the case of ski resorts, the simplest - and most accurate - test is to look at how many visitors they attract in the period between winters. Whistler, it is now said, has more visitors in the summer than in the winter.

In Niseko,