by glen on April 28, 2010
Yesterday decided to go on a bit of a mission and explore the upper section of Route 66 and maybe hike Chisenupuri. This section of the road re opened today after being closed for the winter. John joined me on the mission. We jammed our bikes in my car in Hirafu and ended up on the corner of route 66 and the turn off up route 58 up to Goshiki Onsen.
The road had some impressive snowbanks and a team has been working on clearing the road for 2 weeks or more.
Getting back on the bike felt good and surprisingly we both did ok on the climb, seeing as well still had energy decided to boot pack it up Chisenupuri – only took us about 45mins and that was much quicker than when we had last hiked the route together last September.
The view at the top made all the effort worth while.
After shooting a couple of panos and a few stills we were out of there as it was COLD…forgot my gloves.
Hiking down the moon came out and John and i shared a moment ha ha.
The ride back down got the blood flowing and after dog fighting our way amongst the piles of snow and avoiding the ice patches we were down – mission accomplished.
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by glen on April 20, 2010
Last week on the 8th of April was one of those days here in Niseko. Crystal clear skies with perfect views.
Headed up to the Spring Park which the Hirafu resort builds every year. The park is built just right of the Ace Pair Lift #3 up from the Center 4 lift.
I wanted to make a virtual tour of the park but instead shot something I have wanted to try for a long time – shooting a panorama with a jump sequence in it. Click on the image below to view.
First i shot a regular pano further up the hill from this spot but saw a group of snowboarders hitting the biggest kicker and thought I’d move down and have a go at the sequence… fairly happy with how this turned out on such a sweet day.
Lots of pro Snowboarders and Skiers come up from the main island (Honshu) to session the kickers at this time of year so there is no shortage of talent floating around.
Will make the next pano i shot from this day soon but that one is going to be bit trickier to edit because i shot it much closer to the kicker and the rider was moving through multiple sections of the pano – in this pano the snowboarder was only moving through 1 frame.
Generally shoot all my panos with 6 images around 1 up and 1 down – 8 in total.
Here are a few stills from the same day.
The season isn’t over just yet the park stays open until the first week of May !
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