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.
1120m
8hrs
7.5/10
1045m
1450m
9.5hrs
8/10
2052m
647m
4hrs
6.5/10
1323m
1000m
6.5hrs
7.5/10
1377m
670m
4hrs
4/10
902m
1410m
8hrs
7/10
1880m
500m
4hrs
6.5/10
1600m
600m
4hrs
6/10
718m
729m
4hrs
6/10
1074m
995m
4hrs
6/10
1046m
733m
4hrs
4.5/10
981m
1580m
8hrs
8.5/10
1884m