it was to the slopes the on day 2, and boy ..was there sNOw.
a sad slop of ice spewed by an overworked slurpee machine.
There is a magic carpet on the right and this area shld be over-flowing with snow!?
the conditions were decent actually but very limited runs open. It was our first day too and we took it slow.
i can't remember this meal.
day 2 and we went back to Hakuba 47 and it was super icy, as if morale wasn't low enough with the sad hot state of the world affairs, it was difficult and dangerous to ride on ice. We decided to ditch 47 and drive over to Goyru, on the map , only one run was open but when we got there, many more runs were open high up and the snow was really good!
The weather didn't show up till the sun almost set at 4pm+,....
Just missed a very nice moment on the top of the mountain before calling it a day.
At the base you can see all the brown grass. A very good 2nd day.
I chose to have Sukiyaki with Nagano-shi beef.
Trying to eat local, the beef was below average...
costing ~SGD$55, it wasn't really expensive for sukiyaki , but taste was really meh.
It was day 3 on the mountain, and we check out of Marriot as the price jumped but more than double towards the xmas week.
Self-drive means we can stop at anytime, to admire the blue skies, winter-scape with brown scenery..wtf! I was yearning for a WHITE Xmas.
Day3 on the slopes was a saturday, as we were driving to the slopes, we knew it was going to be crowded, there were easily 3-4x more cars...but i reckon easily 6-7 times the no. of pple on the saturday compared to friday. It was likely compounded that amongst hakuba's 10 ski resorts, only 2-3 were open, and of these, very limited runs too. This caused huge jams ad the lifts and at closing time (we stayed till the last moment on all days ..heh),...it was a long wait to the gondola to head down.
Having the slopes close at 430pm means a good amount of time to go supermarket raiding! Here a very delicious 'newspaper sake', from Nagano at only ~SGD$20 was so delicious, and the bottle was like ~900ml!
Yes you can see the pre-dinner snacks! My fav time of the day!
We were in Tsugaike, around 25mins from Hakuba Goyru, and dinner options were very limited and we ended up in a very meh restaurant (recommended by locals but...) Here's my favourite comic book, in original japanese!
Damn lousy spicy sesame ramen. Any $3 instant noodle can beat this. !
This was right outside our BnB, literally walk 20steps, but ...the disappointment continues with only 1 run open at Tsugaike and other runs all brown.....
We braved the crowds again, it was a tad better than saturday... at Goyru.
No super nice skies on this day and this was at the bottom of another run, less crowded too.
Bye bye snow mountain!
Special shout to the Nissan Leaf?, with superb reverse parking capabilities, somehow a 'top down' view presents itself!
Yes more raid of another atas supermarket....ICE SCREAM you said?
pre-dinner again! woot! Yes, bought soyu and wasabi!
It was winter soltices and the chinese owners/chef of the bnb made one for best ever dumplings I've ever had. (and yes you pay 'mountain price' too!)
Shiga kogen, both IPA and Pale Ale rocks!!!
Soo yummy!! the matcha mua-chi omg. The Pumpkin is also plump and wholesome!
that's the end of our 4 full days on the mountains.....
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