Last month, the family once more hit the road to go up to Shiga in Nagano Prefecture to get a few days skiing and snowboarding […] Read More
Category: outdoor
![Down by the Beach on a Honda CB400](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/beachbike1.jpg?resize=520%2C400&ssl=1)
The best way to get the feel of a country a little bit better is to physically travel it. How a country feels – the […] Read More
![Jaume Plensa Alabaster heads](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/heads1000.jpg?resize=520%2C288&ssl=1)
For the first time in about six months I’ve decided to change the header image on the site. The old one was from a photo […] Read More
![Sun over Hakuba](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hakuba2.jpg?resize=520%2C400&ssl=1)
We just got back from our second and final 2011 snow trip to Hakuba with the family. I’m not going to go over the prep […] Read More
![Dig out your car in Shiga Prince Hotel](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/img_0677.jpg?resize=520%2C400&ssl=1)
We just got back last week from our first snow trip of 2011. It also marked some other landmarks: at 644Km in 3 days, our […] Read More
I’ve been the fairly proud owner of a basic GT Aggressor 2 ‘mountain’ bike for about seven years, and it’s provided me with plenty of […] Read More
I know when the snow season – at least for me – is about to get underway, because it’s nigh on midnight, and I’m on […] Read More
![wax time for the Nitro](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ts360379.jpg?resize=520%2C400&ssl=1)
You can tell we’re about to go on a family snowboard trip, because it’s almost midnight the day before we have to takkyubin the boards, […] Read More
I just got in from almost an hour and a half on the balcony tuning and waxing the boards so we can send them to […] Read More
![The Monsters of Zao, where the world turns black and white.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nanikore.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2006-zaotrees3.jpg?resize=520%2C400&ssl=1)
We just got back from a weekend of snowboarding in Yamagata-ken to see the famous monsters of Zao. I went there once before, about four […] Read More