Derokyo part 3 ”Niseko Snowmobile Adventures

• February
• 10

5:23 pm snowboarding

Vaughan and three others were given the chance go go catboarding last week,after an intense game of paper,rock,scissors Hyna,Roland and myself became the lucky participants.

We got up early,8.00am,early for us,had breakfast and drove out to the Catboarding Operation located roughly 40 minutes from Kutchan. There we met up with Nick Gutry and Cam…Corder , sorry didn’t get his last name.We loaded up the cat and ventured out into the Aza Yamada backcountry

The journey up into what looked like a crosscountry skiing resort with its mellow hills riddled with cat tracks. It was supposed to take an hour ,however it had snowed alot the night before which covered up the remnants of any previous tracks made by the snowcat, so we got a little lost .

I’m not one to hate,but after driving around for 2 hours and not really seeing anything that could be good to shoot i was starting to get a bad feeling. Then all of a sudden it was as if i was bitchslapped by god himself,we pulled up to a gully that was steep,loaded with dry powder and more natural features than i’ve seen since i was in grizzly gulch , Utah. To say we were stoked was an understatement.

The first features we attacked were two cliffs which were about 20 feet apart. After having about three hits each we left the still deep and soft landings for the next zone which had scattered mushrooms of snow and a large cliff with three pillows on it. After bombing out that area we moved to some of the other features which included shoots/rockdrops and pillow gaps. The rest of the day continued on like that , we’d see a feature ride it for a few pics then move on . Perfect day really .

If you’re in Hokkaido you should check this place out. www.go-nsa.com

thanks to nick for the free catboarding.