The journey up to the mountain was interesting and it required skillful driver - definitely not me. The bus had to drive through snowy roads and snowy weather and it gave me goose pimples when the driver was negotiating sharp turn. We were looking at the map to determine where to alight as we did not want to be alighting at the wrong stop up in the mountain. We got help from fellow travellers and bus driver but still didnt see our HI Hostel initially. It was a cool wooden hostel and we were anticipating the indoor and outdoor ONSEN - the feel of powdery snow on us in warm onsen. We explored and walked up a spiral staircase up the "watch tower" in the hostel and it was a nice "white christmas" view. We had our drink and short chat here - something like what we had done at 长洲。
It was however a pity that the outdoor onsen was spoilt, a disappointment to us. We then hoped for a sumptuous dinner in "canteen style". It was the first time that our "food" were actually waiting for us haha. I quite liked the soup and the chicken nuggets. The tea was hot and nice too and it warmed us. Initially, I was equating this as a form of "in-room dining" but it wasnt so. We didnt go for breakfast package as we had planned to take the ropeway up to the peak in the morning.
I had wanted to surprise my wife when I was hiding behind the curtain and opening the window to make a snow man. The snow was so fine and powdery that I could only manage the body and not the head after several attempts in the morning. We had snow falling outsides our windows and the feeling of white christmas was there. My wife woke up and suggested to put our drinks in the snow as natural fridge. It was real fun as we didnt stay so close to snow before. Snow was literally besides us. 大雪山 － 给我们有圣诞的感觉。 一棵棵树被雪白的雪盖着，是真正的圣诞树。
We walked hand in hand to the ropeway station and many people were in fact skiing. It was a steep way down and I dun think I have the skills to ski down. As usual, I shared with my wife on my "skiing experience" telling her how to walk like a crab, how to stop and change direction. However, I lowered my voice as there were many experts around queuing to go into the ropeway. I wonder how beautiful it would be with different colours of autumn in the mountain. Not sure why but I felt that white was elegant. It gave me a different feeling - something that I would like to experience and see as in a white christmas winter. Hokkaido was famous for powdery snow and we had indeed experienced it. 我时不时在看是否有hokkaido fox， 但没有它的足迹，只在宿舍看到它的照片。有趣的是我们哼着叶正文的歌 hokkaido fox, 穿梭在白白的雪路中，偶尔也向对方抛雪球。 Dun use stone covered with snow next time, ok?
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