Improvements All-Round

Well, the donations are hotting up. Peter, who we will call SpongeBob for sake of confusion, has joined in with reports and photos from Hakuba. Indeed, at first, SpongeBob's news was not good - a lack of snow and hot weather but, as has also been confirmed from Niseko & Rusutsu, the snows are falling and conditions have improved somewhat.

In a sort of chronological order, the first three are from some of SpongeBob's contributions from Hakuba, before the fresh snowfalls.

The three after that are from Rosco in Niseko during the storm. I'm a sucker for action shots, so the remaining four slots are from Peter and the crew in Rusutsu. I see Lucky Phil has been hogging the lime-light, again ;-)

Thank you all.

Hakuba looking less than its usual self

These 2 from SpongeBob show how similar Hakuba can be to High Noon in early season conditions ;-)

Back country in Hakuba
In all fairness, I hear that things have improved

'Water under the bridge' and 'Frozen Coke for adults'
Rosco's subject matter can be a good indicator of what conditions outside are like

'Tailwind'
But even the freezing wind chill didn't stop all outside shots

Much more comfortable to pull the camera out when inside the Hana 3 bubble

Meanwhile, over in Rusutsu, Lucky Phil enjoys the freshies

More Lucky Phil

And more Lucky Phil - how lucky can you be?

Yes, I know there's a lot of Lucky Phil but who's the boarder? Peter, I guess?

Yay, the rain has stopped in Thredbo this morning. There is even a glimpse of sunshine coming through as I write this report :-) How long will that last? The forecast is for showers.