niseko and the bluest bird...

mt. yotei

today we woke up with perfect bluebird, which is kind of exceptional here with the fast changing hokkaido weather. as the last days havent been too successful due to the frozen base below the new snow, we were really happy about this last chance that niseko offered us.

the hike got pretty steep about 100 meters after this shot. legburner!

we took two guides who took us deep into the backcountry and we finally could do some nice shots the way we wanted. the hike was short, but pretty exhausting as it was quite slippery and steep.

peter in the magic forest

in the end, we only had to do one basic hike to do about 5 or 6 different spots. the snow was pretty baked in the end, but it still looked cool on the pics!

fipse's spot: switch millerflip! stoked!

at night, we went out, as it was our last day in niseko before cruising to asahidake tomorrow. we found a decent steakhouse, as we all longed for some european food (after a couple of dinners at a sushi restaurant)... highlight was for sure, that each of us could pick some other's drink which ended with quite wild mixtures (vodka/tomatojuice/beer - whiskey/gin/absinhe) and of course the mixture i had to drink, containing 'fleshcleam'... :)

bettel than broody maly!

tomorrow, we'll be off to asahidake. we hope to be there by night, so we can catch the head-crew who were shooting there the last couple of days and have some brewskies with them before they leave on wednesday.


hope, i can post from asahidake as we won't have internet in our hotel there.