APPI KOGEN | The WORST Winter In Japan? A Journey North

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Chasing The Snowstorm in Northern Japan. In this episode we head North to Tohoku region to explore some of the lesser known ski resorts and hope to find some fresh powder snow...
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@andersonday3196 7 дней назад

LOVE the magic flashlight reference here with the vending machine opener

@MountainSwell 7 дней назад

😂cheers but I’m not sure I understand? What’s a magic flashlight?

@andersonday3196 7 дней назад

@@MountainSwell Old internet snowboard video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ox78WEmXQB8.html

@andersonday3196 7 дней назад

Maybe you didnt mean to make the reference but it reminded me of it!

@MountainSwell 7 дней назад

@@andersonday3196😂yeh I have no idea about it? Is it something from a movie or something? Would love to see it 😆 Actually we was driving to the mountains and we kept seeing so many lonely vending machines and thought would be cool to make some sort of intro. Just made it all up as we went along 😆 we not the clever to plan something. Doesn’t even make sense? Wrapped a bottle in paper and he opened and drank it and then his clothes turned to snowboard clothes 😆 makes no sense

@munrodeo 7 месяцев назад

Haha great stuff guys! So nice to see Justin in this finally, and those long awaited pow shots actually turned out so good!! Great riding too, as always. Also, frickin cracked me up that all the shots to be cut on either side were kept in, lol, bloody hysterical! 😂 Fun to see the military shots too. They were always out skiing when I was living in central Hokkaido and it was nice to see that shared, always interesting.

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

Yeh the aim of this episode was just to have fun and not be too serious about the snow conditions in Japan. Many people were complaining this season but I was just thinking, damn! The snow here is still awesome even if it just in the groomed runs. Japan is always fun powder or not. The problem is people come here thinking they have pre paid for the ultimate powder experience 😂 it’s an island surrounded by ocean that any slight wind change brings a while different weather forecast. The powder that we did get in this video was pretty nice, wasn’t deep but I was living the icy layer underneath for ease of gliding and exploration capabilities without getting stuck. Bring on next season aye 🤙

@trippinwitgeorge 2 месяца назад

Living the life!

@MountainSwell 2 месяца назад

Yeh not bad but after seeing your vids im craving some south east Asia 🤙

@trippinwitgeorge 2 месяца назад

@@MountainSwell Mate it's sooo good, I highly recommend it!! Hope you make it here someday man 🙏

@MountainSwell 2 месяца назад

@@trippinwitgeorge yeh I use to live in Malaysia for a few years back in my backpacking days. And living in Japan I’m pretty close for a quick hop over to south east Asia. I’ll be in Thailand this November 🤙

@dz-dg9sv 7 месяцев назад

I caught the very front end of that “heat wave” in the middle of February, was up at Zao Onsen skiing in a t-shirt😂

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

Yeh was crazy aye. I was in Madarao then chilling with tshirt on drinking coffee in the carpark. Crazy winter aye but I also like the spring style days 🤙

@georgedaswani9155 7 месяцев назад

Wow, what happened to JAPOW? Is it still snowing a lot in Hokkaido (more north)? California on the other hand (Tahoe Area) is getting a lot of snow (several feet in the past 7 days). Is an El-Nino year generally a bad situation for snow in Japan? Better snow during La-Nina years?

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

Well actually I just drove down south in the snowiest week this winter 😂 timing aye. Yeh El Niño isn’t so good for snow over here but actually we still get a tonne of powder when it does snow but what ruins it this winter is when the south winds come up and melt all the snow but this is actually good for the surf down where I live in the south. The Japanese ski resorts aren’t so high and are so close to the ocean so the snow condition changes so fast for sure. 2019 was similar to this season but I think next season La Niña is in the forecast 🤩

@DumagueteExpatDiver 7 месяцев назад

can we do an IP line near the hotspring? nice place to have a bath after work :) hi Justin

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

Yeh and can use my van for setting up TX point 🤙

@SF-nm2vy 7 месяцев назад

Nice photo shots at APPI Kogen. I’ve spent a week there every year for the past 7-8 years, because I have in-laws relatives there to visit. I must say this year is without a doubt the worst snow conditions I’ve experienced. There was even a day when it rained, something I’ve never seen at APPI Kogen. Maybe I’ve been lucky until now, but I’m hopeful conditions will be better next year. Hopefully you’ll have another chance to go visit, and have better snow too. Again, liked those photo shots.

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

Ah cheers man 🤙 yeh I was there last year too and it was -18, was getting frozen fingers trying to shoot. This year has been crazy all around Japan. Even in December I was surfing in Miyazaki and it was 25 degrees 😆 Snowboarding is always fun but raining on the mountain is the worst 😂

@dawisdead 7 месяцев назад

13:48 CAPITA give me ADs

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

😆 I don’t even know what you talking about?

@dawisdead 7 месяцев назад

@@MountainSwell The photo is so cool that it could be used as a Capita ads😄

@MountainSwell 7 месяцев назад

@@dawisdead ah I see. Cheers 🤙

@papertorch 2 месяца назад

4:07 what's that ? Instant wax ?

@MountainSwell 2 месяца назад

yeh in Japan there are so many awesome different waxes to use due to the snow temp constantly changing here. This one in specific is great as i can layer on a then use a cork stone to polish (cork creates the friction to heat up and let the board absorb wax more) But there is also spray wax here, rub on wax, and liquid wax.... A sponsor sent me a big kit at the end of the season which i will make a video in my workshop this autumn with snowboard prep

@papertorch 2 месяца назад

@@MountainSwell wow that's so cool.

@MountainSwell 2 месяца назад

⁠yeh Japan gets a crazy amount of snow but because it’s an island surrounded by ocean and the mountains are not very high there becomes humidity in the air which can create the snow temperature to change throughout the day. This is very specific to Honshu. Hokkaido is way colder and different snow too

@papertorch 2 месяца назад

@@MountainSwell Japan's amazing. I'm from India, very few people board or ski here so it's hard to get any good gear and very few places with snow too (they are really fun). Your videos are so good and they make me wanna move to Japan.

@MountainSwell 2 месяца назад

Ah India 😮 have you ever been to Gulmarg? I would love to go there. Also Indian is my favorite food and we have some many good Indian restaurants in Japan. Thanks for liking my videos and if you ever make it over here to ski hit me up 🤙