If You Want to Ride…

Other than two bottomless powder days in Niseko I only got in one craptastic day at Sapporo Kokusai.  Things timed out rather well this time at Niseko with a big storm preceeding me and continued snowfall while I was there.  Things timed out poorly at Kokusai, with my visit bracketed by good days.  The steeper powder stashes were all tracked out, and the unridden areas were still a little too soft to be able to carry speed on the shallow slopes.  Monday would have been epic, and today (Wednesday) would have been not so suckariffic.  Eh, sometimes you just have to chance it.  You can’t nail the timing all the time.  I guess I could have tried to hit there today then head straight to the airport and jump in the onsen before boarding, but there was the chance that heavy snows could have snarled ground transportation and I would have been stuck.  As is with the holidays, traffic on the major highways has been pretty bad.