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(Previously) Wandering amongst the mountains of New Zealand in search of cheese

Niseko Day 3

All of this is going to have to be from my wrecked memory as we never got round to writing any more updates while in Japan. Stuck between booze, hair and Arun Davies, so nothing gets done. Anyway, here goes...

Oh I remember this one! Started off fairly sunny again I think, so rode over towards Strawberry Fields area. One run and Arran Davies needed some coffee. Like everything else over here, it's in a can and comes out of the vending machine. Strangely enough it tastes great too. Well by the time we got out of the cafe area, Mr Dumpster was in full swing and nailing down big fat flakes. Tracks covered over before too long, stopped for a bit then he carried on all afternoon and night. Myself and Mr Jermaine found plenty of untracked pow off the back of "The Legend of Shibiyama", bit of a hike back out but well worth it. This led us on (accidentally) to Blueberry Fields - an awesome bit of tree riding that we ended up hitting all afternoon. Genius in there, neige getting deeper all the time. Last lifts (4 of, including the one-man chair that we could barely even see it was snowing so hard!) back over to the Hibashiyama side. Thought we'd have a look again at the very first run we did - hiked up the access track, no tracks at all! Surprise Farmed on down from there into sweet knee-deep pow, then right down to the Prince Hotel.

Strawberry Fields Snow Spiral

Time for some night-riding action for these brothers. Love that, belt it up and down in the new neige, barely anyone else up there. Got a video of that.

Finally rocked back to the Black Diamond Lodge around 7pm for our farewell dinner, meet our new guide, Toby. And then the wigs came out. And the tap pants. And far far too much Jagermeister.  Then we can't remember what happened next, but Jarmarly ended up with a head full of shaving foam and asking whether Gary was dressed for bed (also "I don't want to f*ck you Gary" was mentioned.).

Ski-shots Allan, Arun and Allen, The Davis Brothers

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