backcountry

八甲田 - Hakkouda

Like I said [https://blog.novaugust.net/another-weekend-another-ski-trip/], this last weekend was an overnight backcountry trip up in Aomori-ken, the northernmost prefecture on 本州 (honshyu), the main island of Japan. I'm

Another weekend, another ski trip

My last post started with the line "Maybe I do this too much". In fact, I realized that I've been getting out every weekend, and have a couple more

Ubagatake

[http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DSCN4199_crop.jpeg] Another weekend, another backcountry trip. The crew was mostly familiar faces: Kazumi, Zunko, Kanji, Satoko (from the first trip) and one

Backcountry Japan Ski Video (Gassan)

Kazumi-san linked me the video she put together from our first backcountry trip [https://blog.novaugust.net/backcountry-japan/]for the year, so I'm throwing it here to keep it in mind.

The Big Backcountry

Once again thanks to Takeuchi-san, I hit Yamagata's backcountry on the 15th. The size of the group got a little out of control on this one though... [http://www.novaugust.net/