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Our little fox friend asked us for food, we declined and then packed our bags and headed out to the Sapporo Airport for the flight back to Tokyo. A two-hour airport shuttle to CTS, a quick two-hour jaunt to Haneda Domestic Airport, then another shuttle into the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo. Relatively easy.
I had planned [...]

Bunch of random flicks from our times around Niseko. We’re just about finished with the mission…it’s been a great one for sure! Although the pow days were limited, we got everything we needed for the editorial piece in Snowboarder Magazine (USA). The story will be a good read and I hope y’all will enjoy the [...]

With the ‘rain event’ that rolled through Northern Japan, much of terrain in our zone has been rendered useless, so we climbed in the van and started the search for obstacles. There’s still a lot of snow around, so it was just a matter of looking past powder filled mountains and keeping an open eye [...]

Chairlifts, night riding, driving, hiking, building, cameras. Another couple of days around Niseko. Blotto

We got into the house and started checking out the place…and in typical Japanese fashion, there was a couple of radical features I had to talk about. First is the cutlery drawer…yea, you have your spoons, knives and forks…but over here you also get the chopsticks standard issue, so fresh.
You ever roll up to the [...]

After Jack and I checked our baggage onto the next flight, we made our way through security, grabbed some fine Japanese chow mein and traded travel stories from the past couple of weeks. Jack had been touring through Europe with Mikkel attending a couple of contests and photo shoots. Jack, the fine filmer and editor [...]

My next mission is on the North Island of Japan (commonly referred to as Hokkaido) for an editorial shoot with Snowboarder Magazine. Editor, writer and overall epic dude Tom Monterosso has assembled the crew of Mikkel Bang, Jack Mitrani and Keegan Valaika to come and check out this zone made famous by it’s yearly snowfall [...]

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Two and a half days of shooting and filming on-hill during the day, while hanging around the rental house cooking and filling in a few scrapbook pages during the evening.
Once again, Bear Mountain hooked up the custom features for the team riders to get gnarly on and secure a few film shots and some choice [...]