POWDER FREERIDING IN JAPAN

Freeride holiday with lift accessed freeriding
Date: January 2023

Freeride holiday combined with splitboarding/ skitouring
Date: January 2023

Ride with us the worldclass deeeep Japanese powder and get to know a great culture with amazing food, hot springs called onsons, volcanic landscapes and very welcoming locals. If this sounds good to you, you can choose between these two holiday options:
Freeride holiday with lift accessed freeriding
Freeride holiday combined with splitboarding/ skitouring

Due to the cold air from Siberia and the moisture from the Sea of Japan Hokkaido is one of the snowiest places on earth. Some areas on the island are claiming an average of 25 meters snowfall per winter. The most snow falls in the period from half January until mid February. During these holidays we ride less known and therefore less crowded ski areas. From my own experince these areas belong to the best freerinding areas of Hokaido.

Freeride holiday with lift accessed freeriding

Among others we ride in the ski areas which are known for the driest powder of the island. All in all we explore up to 6 different areas, thus we get to know Hokaido from diffrent viewpoints and immerse into japanese culture through onsons, sushi and much more. During our holiday we stay in typical japanese mid class accomdations.

LEVEL

Being able to ride safe in the forest thus to control your board/Skis in tree runs is required. Most of the freerid runs in Japan are in the forest.

MATERIAL

  • Safety equipment (backpack, beacon, shovel, sonde).
  • Functional clothing, gloves, beanie, sunglasses and goggles.
  • Freeride Ski/ Snowboard

    Let us know in the booking formular if you need any equipment and we will help you out.

PRICE

  • €2395,- per person

    Included:
  • 6 days of guiding
  • 7 nights accommodation with breakfast
  • transport during the trip

    exclusive: flight to airport Chitose in Hokkaido (JPN), food & drinks and lift tickets

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Freeride holiday combined with splitboarding/ skitouring

Besides freeriding as discribed above in the ‚Freeride holiday with lift accessed freeriding‘ holiday, we will bring our touring equipment to hike some awesome terrain. If you have experience in splitboarding or skitouring I highly recommend this trip! Depending on the weather we will hike active vulcanos in Daisetsu National Park or Isoya in Rankoshi with a view an stunning view till the the Japanese Sea and the best tree run I have ridden in Japan.

LEVEL

Being able to ride safe in the forest thus to control your board/Skis in tree runs is required. Most of the freerid runs in Japan are in the forest

MATERIAL

  • Touring equiptment
  • Safety equipment (backpack, beacon, shovel, sonde)
  • Functional clothing, gloves, beanie, sunglasses and goggles.

    Let us know in the booking formular if you need any equipment and we will help you out.

PRICE

  • €2995,- per person

    Included:
  • 9 days of guiding
  • 10 days accommodation incuded half-pension
  • transport during the trip

    Exclusive: flight, food & drinks and lift tickets

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These holidays are guided by Irian van Helfteren
These holidays are also offered by travel agent The Wildlinger
These holidays take place from a minimum of 6 participants
Group discount possible upon request.

Impression of our Japan Freeride holiday of 2020:

At the end of our first day freeriding we hiked up in the moonlight for one extra powder run! With a view of the illuminated ski slopes of Rusutsu.

The second day we hiked the Mt. Shiribetsu, not an easy mountain to start with but worth the effort for a perfect powder run and an impressive view of Mt Yotei. The Vulcano Mt. Yotei dominates the skyline of the Niseko Valley and is one of the highest peaks in Hokkaido with almost 2000 meters.


From the peak, the view of the unmistakable MT Yotei.

Japanese food……. a bit special but very, very good

  • BREAKFAST
  • SUSHI 🙂

This hike brought us to the summit of Nitonupuri, with the best treerrun we had in Japan.

Sapporo sightseeing, a city with two million inhabitants.


In my opinion some ski areas are nice, the powder is amazing, but what impressed me most were the landscapes in the backcountry. Like one of our hikesup to the Mt Tokaschi-Dake. It was magic to stand on a smoking crater rim!!!

During our trip we the snow qualities changed, we did n’t have perfect powder everyday aniway it was an fantastic had adventure, great cultural experiences, lots of fun and not a day without an onson (hot spring bath) after freeriding 🙂


Thanks for waching!

Enjoy life, keep on freeriding.