3.2% Water

3 Feb 08

Reasonably clear weather was forecast for Hakuba, good for mountaineering and backcountry, good for exploring, good for altitude camping. For better or worse, the clear weather never appeared.  In its place we got 40+cm of 3.2% water content blower Hakuba powder on top of 40cm of supportive pow base.

For a brief moment in recent days some blue sky appeared out of the persistent gloom.

But not for long.

Light and deep in an easy to access, easy to ride and easy to exit low altitude tree hill in Hakuba.  My brother enjoys a Dupraz snowboard.  23 shots in a few sequences.