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Activities
Activities
The X Factor
The X Factor
Spring is around the bend, but this year’s huge snowfall beckons for more runs. As the Haitian saying goes, "If work is such a go...
Onsen
Episode 1: Maguse Onsen – The Travelers Fr...
If you are a stranger in this strange land, the Naked Stranger is just like you. He is not from around here. He comes from a ...
Hiking
Daiyuzan Trail: ‘The Other Side’
Hakone is a popular destination for tourists who come for the many hot springs, fancy restaurants and historic ryokan (inns)....
Japan Angler
Going Slow in Shonan
My buddy Gary calls me late at night saying there is some action I should take at first light. I tell him I’ll come around be...
Photography
Haikyo: Sports World
It is night by the time you arrive. You can barely make out the trampled barbed wire fence as you ease under it. Your backpack ca...
Travel
Impossible is Nothing
The first time I walked on a pair of bamboo stilts with a 20-kg. pack on my back was the day I stood on Japan’s most northerly pr...
Skiing
The Snow Chasers
After spending four years riding more mountains in North America than most skiers get in a lifetime, I was ready for a new advent...
Bali
Wax On, Drop In, Chill Out!
Alex Springenschmidt first came to Bali in 1998 and, like many before him, he fell in love with the waves, smiling faces and the ...
