Japan mountains

"Day 5 in Hokkaido and a sweet new summit with only one person around...a 80 yr old Japanese gentleman. If he looked back he would have witnessed our 3 sweet laps of the bowl with Billy, Rob, and Rob. And the ski out went surprisingly fast." — alexjoseph • Jan 26, 2019

"12th backcountry ski day in a row in Hokkaido on 4th trip, we only had until 2pm before driving to Sapporo airport. Paul and I bagged this one in a very cold wind and clouds descending minutes after reaching summit on skis. We skied off summit and descended to car park for an onsen in about 15 minutes. 2 hrs 18 min total." — alexjoseph • Feb 7, 2018

"Ascended into the clouds. 10 others descended in the cloud and fog down the ridge. We pushed onto the summit. Decided to ski the backside in a nauseating zero visibility fog. Contoured back to gondola in a full whiteout. 6 hrs round trip." — alexjoseph • Feb 6, 2018

"Peak 4 on our four peak loop. The last section was full of fumaroles making it hard to breath. I was coughing a lot and the smoke left a bad taste in my mouth. This is a very active volcano" — seancasserly • Aug 10, 2017

"Easy half day hike from top of ropeway. Fumaroles were very active. If I had more time, I would have liked to do a multi peak loop around the daisetsuzan group to avoid all the tourists" — seancasserly • Aug 9, 2017