This will likely be my last post for several days, since we just had a death in the family.
I recently started scanning in some of the hundreds of negatives of photos I took in Japan in 1988-89, so here are a few of my trip to the APPI ski area (pronounced AHP-PEE) in early January, 1989.
APPI base area. Don't miss the gift shop!
Many mountains in Japan are volcanos. Check out the one in the background.
Taking a break before tackling the black diamond slope!
Anyone know what kind of trees those are? Nothing like you'd see in Colorado.
Rice paddies in the snow.
A closer view of that volcano