Today was a bad day for PandaHat. A very bad day indeed.
In discussions last night with a few staff, we were told that this season in Hakuba is the worst snow season (as in amount of snow) for 37 years. However I woke up this morning to see another good foot of fresh powder and was very excited to be able to go out and board for another day without the fear of stacking it and bashing into some ice.
With Pandahat on my head, I got to the slopes, only for it to start RAINING! Fuck that. It's not supposed to rain at the snow. Pandahat is very fluffy and hence was just soaking up all the water, so for most of the day I wore my hood over the top. Although when I put it on after I went in for lunch, i did get some interested stares from all the nearby kids.
My boarding is getting much better, and unless I am trying 360's, I can get all the way down the run without coming close to stacking it.
Except one time this morning, when I was looking for Woo, who was supposed to be on one of the runs. I saw him working his way down the run from the chair lift, but we kept missing each other so I was trying to get down the run as fast as I could to catch him. I did this a few times and was gradually catching him. On about my third fast run, I was cracking along, and looking up to the chair lift to try to see where Woo was and my front end dug in. I kid you not when I say that I would have flown for good four metres before cartwheeling three times, bending my knee in a way it's not supposed to go in the process. I lay in the soft snow and laughed to myself as it was such a massive stack and I was very lucky there was soft fresh snow.
I came back to the hotel at about 2pm as I was soaked through and freezing my tits off. Woo decided to stay, as he was improving massively and wanted to stay out there and work on it.
By the time Woo got home, he had sorted turning on his toes and was very pleased with himself. We discussed injuries and techniques before goint out to dinner at a bar called 'Marzen'. We chatted to the bar man, who's name was Kim. Kim is from Adelaide and speaks nearly fluent Japanese. He's over here for a season and to see a bit of stuff, earn some money, get his accomodation paid for and get snow snowboarding practice in.
By the end of the night, my knee was feeling pretty average and we went in for an early night. It was snowing, and barring any stupid rain tomorrow, it was gonna be a good day!
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