Early Season Snow Recon

I dropped off Fabio and Root at HNL this evening, then came back home to finish packing to head out to Ezo tomorrow.  There was no electricity from H3 to Fabio’s due to that red crane stored in the vacant lot after the Maunawili intersection toppling and taking out the powerlines and almost crushing two tourists in a Jeep.  Root and Fabio were waiting in the dark.  The crew balked at joining me in Sapporo when the return of fuel surcharges raised the JAL ticket prices above the $800 USD mark., so they headed off to Salt Lake City to check on the conditions there instead.  Sapporo has been pretty snow free for the past few weeks, so things were looking rather dire, but it started snowing in the mountains about a week and a half ago, so I should find a half-meter base at Kokusai and Teine, and about 30cm at Kiroro.  There doesn’t seem to be a high likelyhood of fill-in snow next week, so I may end up riding krunk.