Hokkaido
Ski Touring
A Quick Note for Snowboarders
Quite a few of these routes have fairly long forestry-road approaches, which may make things a little frustrating on a snowboard on the way down. They’re long enough and flat enough that they’d most likely require putting the snowshoes back on (or splitting the board).
To make things easier, I’ve included a ‘Snowboard Friendly’ filter on the route reports below. The logic behind marking a route snowboard friendly is that according to my (hazy) memory, the route was more or less decently steep all the way from the top back to the car/trailhead.
Do note, however, that while I’ve longboarded half way around the world, I’ve never snowboarded in my life. So don’t hate me if I’ve marked a route as ‘Snowboard Friendly’ and you find out halfway into a 3-hour walk downhill that actually, you’d rather strangle me and see this entire page burn in the hot fires of hell.
Hokkaido Backcountry Ski Touring: A free resource
GPS route maps, downloadable GPS route files, photos, and more. A repository of open-source Hokkaido backcountry ski touring information in English.
Here in Hokkaido, backcountry ski touring routes are right on our doorsteps. Even from central Sapporo City, super fun backcountry skiing routes exist less than an hour away by public transport. Some even have mountain huts only accessible by ski. This page is an ever-evolving database of Hokkaido’s winter mountain offerings accessible by ski or snowboard.
960m
5hrs
6/10
1299m
390m
5hrs
4/10
819m
468m
2.5hrs
5/10
1288m
30m
2hrs
5/10
1310m
273m
3hrs
3/10
980m
1300m
8hrs
8.5/10
1258m
1170m
6hrs
7.5/10
1492m
1110m
6hrs
7.5/10
1222m
558m
3.5hrs
5/10
1052m
1000m
8.5hrs
9/10
1635m
570m
5hrs
6.5/10
1446m
818m
5hrs
6/10
1098m