Hi all,

Im a new member that is amped to get some stuff on here and more importantly check what all you cool cats are doing.

Could anyone tell whether Hachimantai ( the one with just 3 chair lifts ) is going again for the 09/10 winter. If not is there anywhere I could rent a good enough snowmobile to go ride these lines and how would I get permission for such an activity.

Ps hopefully my Armada JJs turn up tomorra so I can slash some NZ corn.

whoooooo whoo

is it wrong that i want to have sex with my sexy new board that just came in the mail today? is it wrong that i look at her in a way i don't look at women? she's just so sleek and sexy with curves in all the right places looking at her right now just makes me want to ride her.

Today I was helping my landlord with some slap together renovations on my cabin.  I bent over to pick up something and poked myself in the eye really hard on a stick that was aimed directly upwards.  I stood up in shock and pain only to look directly into the arc welder a few feet away. 

My eye hurts.

Good Morning

I have been chatting with 'the man' about the next phase of poachninja development.  Part of that is experimenting with enhancing the graphics.  What you see now may not be permanent, so don't start crying and moaning if something is looking odd or not working nicely.

As always, any changes we make look way better in Firefox than IE6.  Most people in big corporation still use IE6.

A few hours before departing for our planned 5 days hike behind the Hakuba ridghe we heard froma reliable source about the Green Patrol that would be stations at key points on our hike. Green Patrol = no dogs allowed. Its only for the very busy summer month, before and after which dogs = A-OK (most of the time).

Japan Meteo have forecast a 50% chance of a hotter than normal summer. Great. And next week Hakuba is forecast to get 19cm of rain. This will really hurt my chance of getting ok snow for my August ski. At the moment you can still score some reasonable pitches of old corn from Yari summit down towards Yari onsen.

I have added a new item Wiki Discussions to the Wiki Tools menu that is visible on the left hand side of every Wiki page. Using this page you can keep track of all discussed Wiki pages. This is pretty useful as discussions regarding Wiki editing and modification of existing content is what drives a better Wiki.

View the Wiki Discussion list here.

In case you missed the discussion in my last blog post, poachninja.com is now live in the sense that it is open to be viewed by the public and others can join. However we have decided not to start an intense promotion campaign yet. For the moment its enough to have good interested people join and build content as the season approaches. So refer the site to friends that you think should be here and make an effort to submit content, like a picture every week, a blog post, a wiki entry/edit. It all piles up pretty fast in a month or two if we each add something quality each week.

Tomorrow I am hiking from my house to Kashimayari (which I refer to as Kash, 'cause its the best peak in Hakuba). Its a 30km round trip/2000m vert, plus cumulative with undulations total ascent is 2900m or so. Trying fast and light rather than overnight. This is my first trip out without skis or snowboard since November. I'm hoping I don't get up there and see loads of corn over the north side, that'd mean I have to go all the way back another day to ski it.