Mountain reunion

Heather and I went for a chill weekend of boarding at An'nupuri this weekend, electing to shack up in the Niseko Kogen Youth Hostel for the evenings. It was the first time we'd seen each other since I wished her pip-pip-cheerio in London, and it was good to be back in Hokkaido together, with good food, onsen, and SNOW.

The boarding Saturday was mostly eclipsed by the ridiculous amounts of snow Saturday night and into Sunday, which resulted in the closure of broad swathes of the JR train system around Sapporo. A journey that should have taken Heather maybe 4-5 hours wound up taking closer to 9 as she had to rely on buses, and, eventually, freaking expensive cabs to make it home. I got lucky as I was only heading as far as Wing Bay in Otaru on the Sunday, but even there I had the unprecedented experience of having a JR dude order me through a ticket gate without my ticket because the train I wanted to catch was there, waiting, and it might be the last one that day.

Fun times.

2010-2011 Mountain Day 8