Views of Hakuba, Japan

The Idle Monkey Trainer managed a weekend out of the city and on the snow at the end of February.   The conditions were more like late March, with melting snow and emerging rocks and streams. Still good times were had. 

The start house from the downhill at the 1998 Winter Olympics has seen better days and  appears to have fallen into disuse.

"Chicken Gyoza" a rather unique take on the regular dumpling, or some sort of freakish (but delicious) mutant offspring of chicken wings and dumplings.