2015 Japan Winter Trips now open!

We've revamped the whole website - changing the layout and adding pages for some of the main areas we go to in Japan and NZ.

But most importantly, we've launched our 2015 Japan Winter Trips! If you want to beat the crowds and get out to some of Hokkaido's best skiing, head over to our info page for more details on our great road-trips.

We've also started up our facebook, twitter and instagram feeds, so like or follow us to keep up with what we're doing. I'll be heading to NZ in a few days, which always produces a few good stories and the occasional epic monoskiing photo, so hopefully we can keep the updates coming.

Back on skis

It's good to be back on skis! I've been stuck in Australia getting an injury figured out, but that's finally sorted so I've put some extra-large kneepads on and hit Watson's Crags here in Australia to test everything out. So far so good! I'll be up again later in the week to see if anything in the backcountry is in good condition. Last time I was up Mt Carruthers looked perfect, so hopefully it hasn't turned into a wall of solid ice.

I also head to New Zealand on Saturday. It sounds like there's a bit of snow falling (finally) in the Craigieburns. Temple Basin has just opened, and Broken River is hoping to spin their tows after this storm clears out. Fingers crossed that it doesn't come down as rain. Plus it sounds like the glaciers have been getting plenty of snow during the winter, so I'm heading up next week to climb some peaks and earn some (hopefully steep) turns.

We're expecting to expand the website and launch our 2015 Japan trips soon. Stay tuned.