A Brutally Humbling Day in Japan 🇯🇵

Join me on my first ever ski trip... we're headed up to Nozawaonsen up in the Japanese mountains.
You'll see everything, my first ever run, the ups and downs of the experience and what it's like to spend a couple of days in a Japanese mountain village.

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Chapters
0:00 - Preview
1:36 - Hotel breakfast
5:10 - Heading up the mountain
11:03 - My first ever ski run
20:41 - Embarrassing brain block
25:47 - Red run on first day (disaster)
28:30 - Reflection on the day
30:07: Day two begins
32:50 - Day two on the slopes (success)
39:53 - Mountain restaurant
45:51 - Post ski street snack

📍Nozawaonsen ski resort: 7653 Toyosato, Nozawaonsen, Shimotakai District, Nagano 389-2502, Japan

The video begins with me waking up in my traditional Japanese room, both anxious but eager to undertake my first ever ski run. I wandered down to the hotel lobby to grab some breakfast at 9AM before realising I was the last one out of the hotel (skiers must get out early!).

We then got kitted out by some friendly foreign staff how were in the middle of working a ski season in Nozawaonsen. It was then time to head up the mountain. Being a beginner, my friend followed me down a green run giving me some ski tips on the way down. By the time I had done a couple of greens it was time to hit a red! As it turns out... that was slightly too ambitious and I got absolutely wrecked trying to ski down that part of the mountain. I essentially rolled down haha!

Day two was more or less of the same, although I felt much more confident in my ability. I tore up the green runs by myself in the morning and hit a red or two later on (with slightly more success).

It was an incredible couple of days in the Japanese mountain range. I'll treasure those memories forever.

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