Yesterday I had an amazing day on the mountain. I got a phone call the day before from some friends who said they were going to do a day trip in the backcountry and they asked me if I wanted to go. We ended up hiking to the top of a mountain called Fujimi-dake which is 9120 ft. (2780 m.) high. Normally we would ride the lift to about 6500 ft. (2000 m.) and then hike up but the lifts don’t open for another 2 weeks so we had to hike from about 5000 ft. (1600 m.) which means we hiked over 4000 vertical feet. That was really hard. It took us a little over 5 hrs to hike up and then we got to ride some nice powder and enjoy the ride down for about an hour and a half. It was totally worth it. I can’t wait until I get to go again.
Here are a few of my favorite photos.

20081201-img_4692

20081201-img_4718

20081201-img_4751

20081201-img_4753

20081201-img_4760

20081201-img_4769

20081201-img_4771

20081201-img_4781

20081201-img_4787

20081201-img_4790

20081201-img_4805

20081201-img_4807

20081201-img_4821

20081201-img_4840

20081201-img_4842

20081201-img_4845