Last week-end, I was organizing for the members of the Outdoor Club Japan club a training session on avalanche rescue. The first one organized in the club. 7 of its members participated to it.[...]

This second week of the mountain leader winter training was reserved for field practice. Based on the Plateau des Glières (famous Nordic Skiing resort in Haute-Savoie) we snowshoed every day. The menu was[...]

This week was the first of the two weeks winter training for the mountain leader license. This first week was held in the Aravis massif nearby the Grand-Bornand ski resort. The menu was made o both theory and practice : snow pack study, avalanche victim rescue, orienteering, animals traces, cold exposure pathologies[...]

Winter’s beginning and good snow equal beacon* training before starting the off-piste skiing and snowshoeing season[...]

This week-end we went snowshoeing in Nikkō north of Tōkyō. The program was as follow: Saturday : senjogahara plateau, Sunday : round trip from yumoto-onsen towards the karikomiko and kirikomiko lakes While driving towards yumoto-onsen we were worried about the snow conditions, as it seemed there was not a lot of snow remaining in the [...]