Snowboarding trip to Sahoro, Hokkaido
Videos taken from my camera
Friday 10th January 2003
Met Dan at Shinagawa station and took the Keikyu line to Haneda airport. It was on the way that I realized how heavy the board and the other bag were together. Everyone else got through the security check without problem, but I had to be searched because of the metal in my shoes and belt. It still wasn't too bad.
After arriving at the Tokachi airport, we took roughly an hour long bus to the resort and were on the slopes by about 1 p.m. After lunch we went right to the top and were deceived by a downhill slope that looked like it was rising.
It was after that that I had my first, and thankfully last, serious fall of the trip. I was going too fast and was stopped dead by a block of ice on the side of the run. My left knee took the brunt of the force and left me in agonizing pain for the next few minutes. The good thing was that it didn't bother me much after that though my body went into defense mode and prevented me from going fast for a while.
For dinner we went to an Italian place inside the resort. It was after rejecting about 3 seafood dishes that they finally understood that I couldn't eat any meat other than fish and shrimp. Really frustrating.
