The wonderful days of Shiga Kogen is over for this year and I just want to make a summary of it here. So if you are not interested in snowboarding you had better skip to the next blog post.

1st day. Snowing but quite good snowboarding. The visibility was still OK even though it was snowing.

2nd day. Blue sky. 15 cm new and powdery snow. I snowboarded in back country area most of the morning until the snow became a bit wet and heavy in the sunshine. Wonderful!

I went riding in three different back country areas. You can see two of them in the pictures below. The red arrows is where I was riding. In the area in the picture to the left I went maybe 10-15 times. Up in the lift and down on the board… With a big smile on my face 😀 It was replaced quit fast by sweat and strain on my face once I finished the ride in the picture to the right as I had to walk in deep snow for about 25 minutes to get back to the slopes 😛

The final day was very clear. You could see the minami-alps (sout alps) in the background. It was really beautiful. And if we did not have to go back to Tokyo already before noon I think I would have just found a nice spot in the warm sun and relaxed there the whole afternoon, viewing the mountains.

Finally a word on what keeps the energy levels up during a trip like this… Chocolate and nuts and any other sweets that you can find. The picture below just shows the leftovers after 7 people had been eating what I brought. I think half my bag was full of sweets on the way there 🙂

Ohhh, and a fun part of the trip was that we could see some monkeys on the way back. It was nice and only the second time I’ve seen monkeys in Japan, if you exclude those in the office 😉