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I’ve always thought of everyday as a kaleidoscope. It seems that every other moment, a change is taking place, and you’re looking at a new combination, a new something. You might think that you are living in the regularity of day to to day life, but the truth is, you are experiencing infinite diversities every second.
Nothing could prepare me for the newest combination I was about to experience.
6:30 am, Monday, December 28th…. I pop out of bed, which is actually my friend Ashley’s, comfy couch, also known as my second home in the amazing little town of Fernie, British Columbia. The night previous I received a call from Scott that there was a spot available on a snowcat up at Fernie Wilderness Adventures, and that for the first time in my life, I had the chance to go catboarding.
The Niseko area is known for some of the best off-piste powder skiing and boarding in the world. No other destination receives such consistently perfect powder. Niseko is a geographical magnet for weather systems delivering snow storms from the Siberian Peninsula and after filling with moisture on their way across the Sea of Japan these massive fronts collide and Hanazono in Niseko is the first place in their path dumping up to 16 metres of snow in a season. It is not unusual for guests to find themselves enveloped in snow, or as we say, “experiencing the White Room”, as they bounce their way down the slopes.
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