When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.
When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.
I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.
Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.
One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager.
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