We skied Akakura Akakan on our first day out. Visibility was poor, but the terrain is interesting and some good steep stuff amongst it. We found one little tree area between a black run and a green run out the yielded some sweet deep turns through the powder.
At the moment, the only serious terrain on Akakura onsen is all closed due to some impressive looking slab slippages all down the main slope. What's left is basically all beginner type terrain of varying degrees. It's one of those places that has divided it's beginner - intermediate and expert terrain in relation to itself and not any general standard. Hence the red runs here (intermediate) are really just high beginner grade - low intermediate at a stretch. Never the less, Misch and I had a really fun ski here on Monday, hardly anyone around and we found a few off piste banks and powder stashes that kept us happy.
Lunch in town in a funky little restaurant / bar and by the time we got back to the slopes it was snowing heavily. By the end of the day we were skiing 6cm of light and fresh on the piste, very smooth and cruisy!
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