Cortina Resort Pow Poachers.
On the third day we hopped on a bus for half an hour to another resort called Cortina. When I arrived in the parking lot at the base of the hill the first thing I noticed was a massive hotel hovering high above the ski lifts. Skiing at this place was like something out of my dreams. Two chair lifts going straight up the mountain and a traverse at the top that you can drop in on either side. We spent the morning shooting in the trees off the backside of the resort. There were maybe two locals that ski’d this area, the rest of the people stuck to the groomers and mogul runs (this made for never ending powderific lines for our lucky group of foreigners).
Blue sky, bomb drops and big flakes. Hakuba day two.
Day two we went back to Happo resort and we were lucky enough to score some more tickets despite our reputation as outlaws from the previous day. Bryn and I did a tour of the resort (this time staying mostly on marked runs). Before lunch we scoped some water dams that were made of big pieces of stone. We made a trip back to the lodge to grab the lighting equipment and headed back one of the dams. I sessioned it as a bomb drop for awhile and after about to tries it started snowing big flakes. The anticipation of powder made my sesh much more enjoyable and the Bryn’s pictures are amazing.
