Articles by MitchPee

So I was going through my SD card missing Japan and I decided to make a little edit. Nothing extravagant and unfortunately lacking some of the better things from this season. However, I think it does a pretty good job summing up how deep the pow is there. If you haven't been to Japan to ski...

The past few days have been filled with adventures. Our snowmobiles have been overworked and over utilized, but that didn't stop us from getting to some of the most uninhabited regions of Hokkaido, Japan. We have had some great snow and some aspects have been a bit wind blown. Next season Black...

Nature has placed Japan in a dire situation. Many of the people here are concerned about their loved ones, homes, and posessions. We are on the north island of Hokkaido and are fortunate enough to be unaffected by the disaster. While we are trying to get the skiing aspect of our job done, we...

o it has been a while and with good reason. The past few days the Black Diamond crew has been exploring the vasts of Hokkaido. Recently we stumbled upon "el dorado" the remnants of an old mining area of which the location is to be withheld from the general public until further notice :). Perhaps...

So we have had a bit of a dry spell here in Hokkaido. The Level 1 guys are in town and decided to take a break day and visit the seaside towns of Otaru and Yoichi. We got quite a view of the Japanese seaside covered in snow and made some new friends! Sushi was eaten and peace signs were made...

I'm really stoked for the next few weeks. We just got done building a decent sized step-up jump to do some inverted aerial trickery on that has some potential for artsy shots (pictures below). However, we haven't had weather cooperating to hit it, but we expect to get a good session in the near...

Clayton and I went out yesterday and stepped out a pretty fun jump that was recently featured with the Nimbus crew. We opened up the landing a little bit so it is possible to take it a few different ways instead of one through a 5 ft margin of landing. We each got to hit it once but the...

So basically what I am going to be doing is every week bring in a mostly video and some text description of the ski bum life in Japan. Big shout out to Clayton at the Black Diamond Lodge in Niseko, Japan (www.bdlodge.com). Basically the place is a Canadian lodge immersed in the mountainous...

Well I finally arrived in Japan after a fiasco in Narita airport. However it was altogether a fun journey. The winter is looking optimistic for Japan after a very slow start. Snow is on the way and LOTS of it. Clayton Kernaghan (owned of Black Diamond Lodge in Niseko, Japan) was nice enough to...