SBN staff Ucchii's Niigata / Naeba snowboard trip.Report on a day of enjoying snowboarding while having Ryoko Sato, a genuine Naeba kid who has been skiing at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture for seven years, teach her how to play.
I want to snowboard as much as I want from morning till night.
It's a heavy snowfall At the Olympics, one day in January, when the world was excited by the two news that tickled the hearts of snow enthusiasts, I suddenly thought that I was busy with work.I can't help thinking about it ...
Alright, let's go to Niigata next weekend !!
SUBTLE rider Ryoko Sato welcomed me in Niigata that weekend.She is a genuine Naeba kid who has been skiing at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata Prefecture for seven years.She will surely know an interesting way to play locally.By all means, she wants her to teach her the secrets of her "Naeba Snowboarding".She headed for Naeba, inflating her breasts with such expectations.
This year's Niigata is so heavy that it becomes the top news every day.There are many things that I would never be happy to let go of, but anyway, it is a snow of grace for us snowboarders.
Do you call Ryoko in advance on this day and it's snowing a lot?She asked, "It's raining, it's raining. I come here every year, but I'm wondering where this year is. The scenery is different than usual, and I was surprised." rice field.Just hearing that it's snowing makes her heart flutter.Snowboarders are a really simple race.
By the way, abundant snow without rumorNaeba Ski ResortArrival in.Let's play this huge snow resort for a whole day today!Such a spirit drove us from the first morning to the slopes.
First of all, there was something I really wanted to experience, so I invited Ryoko-chan.
The experience is"Fast track" I've heard that you can drop to the first grooming burn (compressed snow burn) in the morning faster than anyone else.
I also love powder, but I've always been interested in this service at Naeba, where I can monopolize the barn that has been covered with snow.I had no choice but to try this, so I headed to the slopes at 7:30 in the morning aiming for the first track.
After enjoying the best one, we had a morning cafe time with Ryoko-chan.
It seems that this "fast track" was the first experience for Ryoko, who has lived in Naeba for many years.Both of them took a break with a cup of hot coffee, dragging the afterglow of the excitement they had just enjoyed.
SBN Staff Ucchii (◆): It really feels good to slide from the beginning of the morning.
Ryoko Sato (●): You can only think of yourself.
◆ Especially for Sunday borders like me, it's rare to find such an empty morning burn.Even if I try my best to get the best, there are many similar people because everyone is aiming for the fast track on Saturdays and Sundays.It's a competition because it comes one after another, and it's absolutely impossible to enjoy it as slowly as it is today.
When you're on the slopes, you can see your cool appearance quite clearly, as if you were standing on the stage as a heroine from the audience.The image of myself slipping is amazing, quite (laughs)
This is really imagery, isn't it?
● Naru, so if you glance at the back, you can clearly see the line you carved.If it's the first burn in the morning, you can feel the foot feeling different from the usual slope.It feels good again.
◆ I'm dying for the moment when the morning breeze is cut. "I am the center of the world".There is nothing to disturb you, and you can slide as much as you want on the line.Everything is what you want!
● Burning in the daytime is interesting, and the powder feels good, but a different feeling is transmitted from the feet to the whole body, and the traces of that slightly subtle bumpy snow car are actually very pleasant. It's a really valuable feeling.
◆ The powder that has accumulated on the edges was also good.I personally love the edges ... I like the change in sensation when I enjoy the powder that has accumulated on the edges and then return to the snow-packed burn, though I'm a maniac.
● Yeah, going in and out.It's like going around aside and coming out again.I will taste both.
Also, the barn opened on the "large slope" and I slid comfortably.The air is clear in the morning and the scenery is amazing.That's why I got a lot of feelings.Don't you feel like you got something?
◆ It will be.
● I'm glad I got up early.
◆ Just get up a little early and leave a line on the barn where no one is slipping ...
● Satisfaction is different, one day.I'm glad I had a day today, but it's not over ... I mean, I'm still thinking that way today.That's why fast track is the best time.
◆ Certainly!It's the ultimate choice if you can choose between arriving at about 8 o'clock and getting ready and starting to slide at about 9 o'clock and slipping until the evening, or slipping only in the morning but doing your best and slipping from the beginning of the morning. However, it's okay to just slide in the morning, so maybe I'll slide a fresh burn.
● I feel that there is that much depth.That morning.It feels really good in the morning because of the snow.
◆ After all, even if I slip from the beginning of the morning, I will slip all the way to the evening (laughs).
While saying, nowThe fast track course was quite long, wasn't it?I'm lacking in training, and I'm already tired of my legs with just one.
● Well, there was a fairly satisfying distance.Rather than speeding up and going to Bing if you slip, it is the best part of the first track to enjoy one of them while enjoying the scenery of the lower world at a moderate speed and detouring to the powder on the side. I feel like there is.It feels good to say, "I'm slipping in the wind."
◆ That's what it feels like to be cruising.
● That's right.
◆ After talking about this, I wanted to go skiing again. (Both laughing loudly)
● Then, do you go on a slope expedition this time?
From here, Ryoko, who is a local, gave us a special guide to the secret point that she usually only teaches to her camper.
● First, take the Prince Gondola and descend from the Challenge Course toward the fire.
There is a sign that goes to Dragondola all the time, but if you follow it, you can reach the foot of Dragondola station.This course is quite long and completely vacant than the main course, so you can attack at a fairly high speed.Let's go over here.
◆ This is a course that seems to be slippery!
● Then, around the confluence of the No. 1 high-speed slope and the main slope in front of the hotel, trees are growing together, but with a wide sense, it goes through the place where several trees are standing. There is a place where you can do it for several turns.Like a tree run. (★ 1)
Even if you say that you slide between the trees, you can join from anywhere, so you can choose your favorite line around here and slide.
I often bring people who are new to the tree ... It's like a petite tree experience.
◆ If you are trying for the first time, you will be happy with this feeling.I yearn for a tree run, but it's usually a place where I can't slip, and even if I long for a backcountry tour, it's not something I'm scared of.
● Oh yeah, it's really dangerous to slip on your own.
◆ I'm impressed when you run the tree for the first time.Even though it's a tree run, it's just a little between trees, but when I first experienced it, I was still very impressed.Do the campers feel like that?
● That's right! I get them to follow me like "I can go here, so follow me", but this burn isn't narrow at all, so I can slide very comfortably.
◆ That's right.
● Then, there is an attraction for beginners from the middle (Flame Snowland), so while entering here.
There is a humorail (it seems to say this is an easy rail buried in the snow !!) that can be cleared by sliding like a snowy slope, so even beginners in the park can try it.If you look straight ahead and look at the other side, you can get out of the rail!It's a rail that you can pass by.But after all, the feeling of slipping is different from snow.That's why "Oh, something strange and strange" seems to be fresh and fun again.When I brought in someone who usually didn't have the courage to enter and had no chance to enter, it was fun to enter for the first time, and he told me that I should practice more from now on, which was the trigger for starting the park. I am very happy that there are many people who become.
● Next, let's take the No. 1 Romance Lift and go down to the right without entering the park.On the way to the platform of the No. 1 high-speed lift, there is a place that is narrowed like a detour just under the lift, but if you do not go along the road and get off at this detour, it will fall. You can fly lightly with the system. (★ 2)
It's a shortcut terrain towards the lift platform below, so it feels like you're jumping from there and getting on the lift.The terrain is such that you can fall from anywhere, and if you use powder, you can slide comfortably.It's safe because it has a very nice view, and it's a good place without being buried because you can get to the lift platform immediately.
◆ The punch line gap is fun.It's easy to feel the floating feeling, and by practicing such a simple gap, it becomes a training to strengthen the sense of balance, and I feel that the feeling of riding a snowboard is sharpened.
● Let's get on the No. 1 high-speed lift as it is.This time I got on the second romance lift of the fire, and I really like this place.
This lift only works when it snows, but I'm lucky to be moving today!
(Note: The second romance lift at Hiuchi has a limited number of business days. Please contact the ski resort directly for business days.)
When you get off the 2nd romance lift, you will go down the leftmost course.So, on the way, there is a side road to the foot of Dragondola station on the right side, so go there.This is a bowl-shaped terrain with a light and swampy terrain. (★ 3) Trees grow on one side and I can't put it in, but the other side is a wall.It feels like a half-pipe wall, and you can climb and turn back here to play a lot!
◆ This course feels really good !!
◆ By the way, how do you find such a secret point?
● That's right, let's go over there or go here.
◆ Do you explore?
● Yes, I'm exploring for the time being if I don't know at all.Exploration is important, really.Otherwise you won't be able to meet new discoveries.
So, when I found it, I kept it a secret (laughs), and I said, "I've found a good place."
◆ Do you enjoy secretly with a sense of superiority?
● Yes, there are times like that, and I also explore places that are completely different from each other among my close friends, and exchange information because there was something good about this.So the next time we go, we can slip together.It's really interesting to go to various places and slide in places you don't know.
In this way, we played down Ryoko's recommended points until the sun went down.Very satisfied!I feel like I haven't played so much in a long time.I'm glad I came today ...
As I was preparing to go home, Ryoko said, "Have you ever seen the night view of Naeba?"
Naeba night view?I've never heard of a night view at a ski resort.The ski resort is in the mountains, so it's pitch black at night ...
However, there are many resort apartments in the Naeba and Yuzawa areas, and the Naeba ski resort is also decorated with night illuminations, so it seems to be a hidden night view spot.
That's because I want to go, so we're twoPrince Gondola at nightI got into.The aim is "Restaurant Prince".As expected, it is gorgeous because it is a restaurant directly managed by Prince Hotel.When I take off my clothes and go back to my clothes and look at the night view from here, I almost forget that I am already on the slopes.I wish I had been more fashionable ... I regret it a little.I never thought that I could enjoy such a night view in the mountains, so I came in a rough dress with mountain specifications.
"Occasionally, it's okay to go home slowly like this, right?" Ryoko-chan said.surely!If you arrive on your way home immediately after slipping, everyone will go down at the same time, so it will be quite crowded.Even if I feel graceful and relax and return to the point where the road is free, if I end up arriving in Tokyo at about the same time, I'm pretty happy because I enjoyed the night view in such a luxurious mood. I think the degree has improved.
With an unexpected bonus at the end, satisfaction is rising rapidly to max.
It was a day when I realized that there are so many wonderful spots I don't know about at major ski resorts like Naeba Ski Resort.
Why don't you make a plan to visit this snow resort next weekend in search of new discoveries?
Last Update: 2006/02/07
Content provided by: Mt.Naeba
navigator: Ryoko Sato (rider)
text: Ucchii (SBN staff)
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Ryoko-chan's favorite Niigata souvenir is ... Sake!
"Speaking of Niigata, it's sake."
Ryoko always asks the shop staff to teach her delicious sake, and after drinking sake, decides which one to buy.
Ryoko's recommended souvenir spot is "Hyakuzo Shichi" in Naeba Prince Hotel Building No. 4 LBF.
This time as well, I'm tasting the sake recommended by the manager ... ♪
It's not a souvenir, it's a momentum deskedo that you might choose for yourself.
Ryoko Sato
A female rider who is always at the top of the girls snowboarding scene.
During the off-season, he traveled abroad mainly in Europe for shooting and training.
In the Japanese season, based on Naeba Asagai, we are engaged in activities such as competitions, camps, events, and photography.
He is also involved in the design of clothing, boards, streets, etc. and is active in a wide range of fields, so please check it out!
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