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otcigen: Here is SNOW!
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otcigen: Day 1. On the Slopes by 10!
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otcigen: Day 1. Run into J and K and Michelle at the old style ramen shop mid-slope
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otcigen: The pizza box chair. Suze is bundled up!
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otcigen: General idea of terrain. This is the hike back to the area from backcountry gate 5
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otcigen: The famous bar with the fridge door
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otcigen: John's Birthday; with the closest thing Kathy could find that looked like cake
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otcigen: Pow alongside monkey chair
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otcigen: Reed in the trees
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otcigen: Into the snowy trees. Suze
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otcigen: Steve and his neon pants
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otcigen: This is actually a Japanese snack food.....
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otcigen: Steve keeping his head low in the trees
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otcigen: Snow Crab Ramen at the Hanazono base lodge. Awesome lunch
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otcigen: Suze down thru the trees. Country side below. Nice bit of clearing weather
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otcigen: Suze coming out of the sidecountry off gate 5
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otcigen: Smile! it is only blowing 20 knots
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otcigen: Panorama of the terrain beyond Gate 5
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otcigen: Japanese snow creep. The entire snow pack can slide several feet on the bamboo at ground, bit not steep enough to avalanche.
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otcigen: A closed ski area we backcountry toured out of. Using their parking lot and Osen (hot springs). Called Chisenapuri
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otcigen: Skinning up thru the fog
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otcigen: Rime on trees
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otcigen: Donny, our guide, From Victoria
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otcigen: Suze and Donny and snow
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otcigen: The sulfur smelling hot springs at the base
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otcigen: Walking out for dinner
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otcigen: The menu
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otcigen: Mushrooms cooked at the table in butter
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otcigen: The Girls!
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otcigen: John and Kathy