Thursday, January 31, 2008

Biwako Valley

This past weekend we went snowboarding up at Biwako Valley. It's a ski resort up about 30 minutes north of Kyoto in the mountains along Lake Biwa. On a clear day, you can see down the slopes to the big lake, but we unfortunately were not there on a clear day. The advantage of that was that the snow was fresh and good. I haven't been snowboarding since the first time I tried it about seven years ago on a Saturday at Breckenridge. It was super crowded and I just had to keep falling down to stay out of other people's way. This time I had a much better experience. After the first couple runs I was getting the hang of it and seemingly staying in control. I only bit it real hard once. Anyway- here are some pictures of us at Biwako Valley.

This is at a train station along the way. We don't really know what's going on here.


This is a self-pic on the lift. We didn't notice the person in the background at the time, but it looks pretty funny in the picture.


These little people were so cute.


Here I am shredding it up.


Here is Dan on the gondola.


2 comments:

Andre said...

"Little people" don't want to be patronized like that. Just treat them mlike you treat regular sized people.

Unknown said...

hi i'm from the philippines and i'm planning a trip to osaka and kyoto after christmas and would like to take my kids to biwako. i would like to know how to get to biwako from either of those 2 places. from your blog you say its only 30 minutes away from kyoto? are there buses we can take? would appreciate any information you can share. thanks