yup, never fails, the snow is coming down as we sit on the bus bound for airport. We decided it was too much to try and squeeze in a last day of riding and getting on the airplane all stinky.
Monthly Archive for March, 2013
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The end is nigh, unless the incoming equipment for my flight tomorrow gets rerouted due to weather conditions. Supposedly the near-typhoon level winds are supposed to subside a little tomorrow, but you never know. Time to drink my Silk Yebisu and take the bindings off my board as the wind roars around the building, and the doors and windows breathe in and out like something out of a horror movie. I swear the winds in town today are at least 150% as strong as the wind that shut down Kokusai yesterday. I literally got blown across a sidewalk and into a bollard and hedge. Luckily it wasn’t that cold, as that would have made the whipping snow much more needle-like, though the warmth put the streets and sidewalks right in that ultimate danger range of 0C to 2C where things are at their slipperiest. I’ve seen it worse in town, like where you have to use the bootpack to not get stuck in the thigh-deep snowdrift that was once a sidewalk.
16:00 and on bus heading back to Sapporo. While snow conditions were good, riding comfort pretty harsh with the whipping winds. We called it an early day, we got some good runs in. Bus is slowly making its way back, now this is an honest blizzard. There’s stilla bout seven car lengths visibility so it’s not too worrying. Am now seriously considering riding Sunday and got straight to airport. Stinky riders!
Yesterday rode kokusai with the full crew. Not a whole lot of overnight snow reported, but conditions turned out excellent! The forecast high winds did roll in early afternnoon 14:00 ended up being our last run as they stowed away the gondolas as the winds and snow started whipping around!
Heading out this morning with Fab, overnight had rains in town. Right now tv tower thermometer reported -0.1C. Sunny with clouds sockng in the mountains. Of course the forecast calls for heavy snow starting this afternoon throught tonight and easing tomorrow, when we’re leaving. Never fails!