Leave it to Hakuba's backcountry!
POWERZONE Hakuba offers outdoor activities throughout the four seasons.
We coordinate various tours in categories such as snow play, water play, mountain climbing, and outdoor play. The stage for playing in the snow is the winter backcountry of Hakuba. High-spec guides with high ski skills who are familiar with Hakuba will strongly escort you. In addition to the three tours that are oriented toward the "Hakuba 1-DAY Tour", "BC Light Tour", and "Private BC Tour", there are also themed programs such as the "Backcountry SKI Seminar" and "Backcountry Tours", which are also features of POWERZONE.
There is also a backcountry lesson to polish how to play
The "BC Light Tour" has relatively few hikes and is affordable, but the "1DAY Tour" requires a certain amount of skill. Sometimes I use gondolas and lifts to go up, and sometimes I do full hikes. In order to be able to participate in such a tour without worry, POWERONE holds a "Backcountry SKI Seminar".
This seminar is a place of training aimed at brushing up skills that can quickly adapt to ever-changing snow quality and natural topography.
Individual and group lessons are available to learn techniques and how to play in natural terrain through slope sessions. In addition, at "Backcountry Tours", guides with a long history as ski instructors provide knowledge courses such as how to ski powder, self-rescue, backcountry trouble consultation, as well as guidance on Hakuba's mountains.
representative
Mamoru Takahashi
Mamo-san travels all over Japan as a backcountry guide and ski coach in the winter, and as a mountain guide in the summer. He fell in love with the scenery of Hakuba, Shinshu, and is a powerful slim boy with a body fat percentage of about 7%. The main pillar of Power Zone Hakuba.
[Qualifications]
・JMGA Ski Guide Stage II
・JMGA Mountaineering Guide Stage II
・SAJ Ski Instructor
*JMGA: Japan Mountain Guide Federation
guide area
| main guide area | Hakuba, Otari |
| Other areas | Near Tateyama, Kubiki, Hakuba |
| Representative name (guide qualification) | Mamoru Takahashi (JMGA Climbing Guide Stage II, Ski Guide Stage II, SAJ Ski Instructor) |
| Main guide name (guide qualification) | Rena Sato (JMGA Ski Guide Stage I, JMGA Climbing Guide Stage III, SIA Stage IV), Yohito Irikura (Shinshu Climbing Guide, SIA Telemark Demonstrator) |
| Number of affiliated guides | 3 full-time employees 1-2 part-time employees (including 3 qualified employees) |
| guide ratio | 1 guide: 6 guests |
| percentage of guests | Skiing/Snowboarding (7 vs. 3) / Men and Women (8 vs. 2) |
rental
| snow safety gear | Beacon, probe, shovel (all ants) |
| Backpack | A board can be attached (Ant) |
| ski | Skis with tour bindings (basically none, negotiable) |
| climbing gear | Climbing skin (basically none, negotiable) Snowshoe (Ant) |
price
| 1DAY | From 12,500 yen |
| other | BC light tour from 10,500 yen |
Actual contents of the tour
| first participation | BC experience Ali | most difficult | |
|---|---|---|---|
| action time | 4-6 hours | 5-7 hours | 5-9 hours |
| Cumulative elevation difference |
200-500m | 400-800m | 1,000m or more |
| average hike time |
2-3 hours | 3-4 hours | 5-6 hours |
| Slope content | Gently sloped trees, small open slopes | Trees on moderately steep slopes, large open slopes | Anywhere in good snow conditions |