backcountry

Check out the latest news and winter events held at ski resorts all over Japan in 2022!

Winter is a special time to explore Japan’s wilderness. Light and shadow can create stunning compositions on the frozen landscape...

Hokkaido is the promised land for powderhounds everywhere. It is situated to be the perfect catcher’s mitt for Siberia’s low pres...

Hakuba is a great backcountry launching point, but many visitors might not realize its full potential.

For those of us growing up in Portland, Oregon, Mt. Hood was our home mountain. On weekends we’d drive up Highway 26, through a t...

Akita Prefecture's Lake Tazawa region barely registers on Japan’s tourism radar. Yet it is paradise for winter lovers and a “Top ...

Going Deep from Shiga Kogen to Manza Onsen "My Japon trip was awesome! Deep snow with good forest to ride even when it wasn’t ...

This is the year you’re going to do it—get the good things you need to go into the backcountry the right way. The choices can be ...

After spending four years riding more mountains in North America than most skiers get in a lifetime, I was ready for a new advent...

It is deathly silent, the snow seems to absorb every sound, and we marching without saying a word through waist deep snow. The wi...

Skiing in Canada may conjure images of popular resorts such as Whistler or those in the Canadian Rockies, or perhaps heli-skiing ...

Although the Japanese snowsport scene has yet to really hit the big-time, there’s a large—and growing—number of people outside Ja...