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Short skiflick from Japan

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-_-Johnny-_-
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Back in january me and a friend went to Japan for 3 weeks. Being super creative fellas we decided to make a short film from the trip. Month's later I've finally gotten around to editing it, so I thought I might as well share it:

http://vimeo.com/12347221

Most of it is in norwegian, but I figured skiing is skiing. Enjoy!

Some of the music is made by friends, the other stuff I got from a website where up and comers upload their stuff (sort of like a norwegian equivalent of myspace).

Dunno how to embed, thanks if you do!
Jun 7 2010 9:47AM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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oh, and you get points for every location you can spot that was in believe or nimbus!
Jun 7 2010 10:11AM
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DERS.
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Jun 7 2010 10:16AM
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DERS.
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they stayed at black diamond lodge in reasons...
Jun 7 2010 10:18AM
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hjb
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Puddersnø i Japan from Nikolai Schirmer on Vimeo.

Here's the embed. I was in Niseko too this season, it was sick.

Jun 7 2010 10:18AM
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hjb
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Never mind...
Jun 7 2010 10:19AM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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Thanks! yeah, niseko was amazing. too much pow. we had pow everyday for three weeks
Jun 7 2010 10:33AM
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skodeo7
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Ahhh I wanna go so damn bad. Niseko looks incredible from everything I've seen.
Jun 7 2010 12:17PM
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i8van
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just set a goal for myself to go next year.... What's the best time to get out there?

How's end of february out there?
Jun 7 2010 1:19PM
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1337
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That was really sick! Gotta add japan of my list of places to ski
Jun 7 2010 1:35PM
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MagSeven
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I'm moving to live in Hokkaido next month. Should be there for a few years (/claim).

Videos like that get me so pumped for the winter! Nice work.

Jun 7 2010 2:45PM
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I_Am_Mod
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japan is probably the n° 1 location on my list of places to go skiing :)

Powder + lifties dressed like pikachu, what more do you need .....
Jun 7 2010 3:37PM
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teleak
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i really enjoyed that.
a lot.
Jun 7 2010 4:40PM
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mak
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lucky, lucky. have a good time slaying all that pow.


really good edit, looked like the trip was awesome.
Jun 7 2010 5:01PM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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from what I heard when I was there it pretty much dumps from december til march, so you really can't go wrong. I was there from late december to mid january and we found sick powder every day except for one. Really gotta give credit to Clayton at the black diamond lodge for that though, he always knew where the snow was and where it was less windy etc..

End of february is probably good. they said that march was really good, because there were less people then. so i guess february is good too. We didn't really have any problems finding good snow though, and we were there close to peak season I think
Jun 7 2010 7:54PM
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jeremy.g
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ah japan would be such an amazing place to visit and to ski
Jun 7 2010 8:36PM
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Brenone
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so sick. Japan is def on my list!
Jun 7 2010 8:44PM
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304NordMan
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god damnit, does japan ALWAYS have powpow, or do people just get really lucky. cuz everyone that ever goes there comes back with footy of 72 hour snowfall with 50 inches dropped.
Jun 7 2010 8:56PM
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assface
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i really liked that. it felt like a slightly toned-down version of the video where nimbus goes to japan. super sick
Jun 8 2010 3:28AM
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canterbury
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ah, i need to ski there, thanks for the edit!

Jun 8 2010 5:59AM
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jibopoply
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I saw you guys and was always jealous watching you put your benchetlers, EP Pro's etc in the gondola but it's all good i saved up and bought a pair of Benchettlers for this season.
Answering people's questions I have been too japan for 5 years now and the shortest length of time was 4 weeks, but i haven't noticed any trends in terms of best months because it changes every year, but you can't go wrong with january. December is awesome but the peak (backcountry isn't completely open/ filled in enough) but snow is just as awesome.
Jun 8 2010 8:05AM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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I think so.

The choice was between japan or canada. Because they seemed to get equal amounts of snow each season. But I think the difference is that canada has a couple of big storms with huge dumps and then no snow for a bit while in Japan it just never stops snowing.

Idunno if that's true though, because I've never been to canada. but that's the impression I've gotten
Jun 9 2010 9:36AM
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bernierosow
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Looks like you had an amazing trip.  I was lucky enough to spend 10 days this winter in all the same spots you hit up.  You really got to duck some ropes to get the goods.  Clayton is the man if your in Japan.  And the BDL is by far the best place to stay.  The backyard park is one of the sickest setups i've ever seen.  We skied from Hirafu to the Hilton resort one night and poached the govy closed zone to the skiers left of the gondi, under a full moon.  One of the best experiences of my life.  If you ever go back make sure to put that one on your list.  If you can keep a secret go to http://vimeo.com/9540807 .  The pass is 5 letters long, starts with a J and ends with a N.
Jun 9 2010 4:51PM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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Dude, that was sick. Was that jaws at about 9 minutes in? going straight from epic pow in japan to epic surf i hawaii, that has to be the perfect trip.

Yeah, we only went into that area briefly. skiing the whole thing looked epic! we mostly skiied the avalanche control area when we skied niseko. we had the whole thing to ourselves and we only got caught once.

Did you shoot anything for the new pbp movie?
Jun 10 2010 10:49AM
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bernierosow
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Not so much for the new movie but for the Wilson TV pilot.  We hit up all the spots around Niseko.  SOOOOOOO FUN!   Then Hawaii for a little vacation.  Yep, that was Jaws!  One of the most amazing things I have ever seen live.  I guess it just snows in Niseko all the time.  We got 7 feet in 9 days.  Night skiing was the best part of my trip.  They cant stop you from going where you want.  The cloud cover reflects just enough light to see outside of the lit up zones and if you have a nice headlamp you can ski the deepest snow all night.  I really want to go back without the hassle of a film crew and shred more of the bc there.  Did you guys do any hiking there?  Or just resort riding?  I got the feeling that the bc is really untapped.  I wish i could ship my sled over for a winter. 
Jun 10 2010 8:30PM
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jca
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firstly, dope video! I watched the whole thing, it was fun!

secondly, are the prices on the Black Diamond Lodge website really in Japanese Yen?  If they are, it would cost $50 canadian to stay there for a week... that's about as cheap  as the cheapest hostels in the world...

Jun 10 2010 9:14PM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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I think you got your numbers wrong. It says 6800 yen a night during peak season, which is about 76 canadian. Which I think is about right. Don't know for sure though, just e-mail them
Jun 11 2010 12:06PM
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