Snowing all day and night in Hakuba

It snowed all of yesterday and continued through the night. The Balcony this morning was overloaded so it was an easy decision to head up to the mountain for a few turns to really get the season started. I headed up to Happo One for first tracks. They opened the gondola early and the Alpen Quad was running so I jumped on that and had some great runs in some mega deep heavy powder. It was very difficult for the majority of people on the mountain who have not had powder conditions before. I heard people say that it was too deep and by the sight of so many skiers and boarders just trying to dig themselves out and get moving again, I think that it was for most. I enjoyed it though 🙂