Nice photos.

Was trying to get up to CTS on my last trip to Japan but want to spend a little more time there when it is not cold and can do some hiking.

It is my understanding the amount of snow is very unusual at this time as my colleagues from Japan have noted to me….I have also heard the snow on Hokkaido is epic this year.... perhaps it was only this past week or so....

As to snow boarding, although never got into the same growing up with seasons passes at Blackcomb, I will say there was nothing to date more graceful in my life than looking down on Craig Kelly’s sweeping turns from a chairlift at mt. baker on a slope that was irregular, steep (probably technically closed) and full of drop offs and at a downhill ski racer clip (I recall in was in the early 90s, after a storm that struck the lower mainland dumping between 6-9 ft of snow on both whistler and local mountains, including, baker in about a 10 day period....[i will say that it used to be the case when i was big into skiing, snow boarders were ONLY allowed on creekside at whistler...that dates me a little...]