Anyway, the skiing was good but not great. This year has been a bad snow year which is ironic because in Alaska it has been an epic snow year. But such is life when it comes to ski vacations - one is always tied to the foibles of the snow! Still by most standards it was pretty good skiing - just now the waist deep dry powder of my dreams.
And the lift tickets and ski rentals were certainly cheap. Maybe 1/2 to a 1/3 the price of an American resort. A one day adult lift ticket costs 49 dollars and they get much cheaper if you buy multiple days. And best of all the restaurants on the slopes not only have excellent Japanese food - think HUGE ramen noodle bowls - but it is cheap too (photos to follow in subsequent post). A beer on the slopes cost 3.50 US, and 2 bowls of ramen and chicken with a Perrier water and beer for Nora and I cost around 20 bucks.
One funny aspect of Hakuba is that the resort was flooded with Australians and New Zealanders. It is the start of their summer holidays and just a short flight to Japan. There were so many of them that I asked one if he had inadvertently ran into anyone he knew from Australia and he said 'six'! We loved to chat with them and tried to learn the difference between a New Zealand and Aussie accent. And they told us all about their homeland. Near the end of the trip Nora commented that she had learned almost as much about New Zealand and Australia as she had about Japan.
Patrick
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