Last March, at the tail-end of my season in Japan, I was fortunate enough to be invited on a splitboarding tour in the Niigata backcountry. Two days later I met with Gardner Robinson, the Editor for Outdoor Japan Magazine, to discuss Japanese distribution of our Snow-search Japan book.
Six months later and we finally have the go-ahead to do a second print run specifically for OJ to distribute in Japan. A partnership has been born.
This announcement comes just in time to see the publishing of my first article in Japanese media; Splitboarding in the Kagura Backcountry. Here’s the first two pages of the splitboarding article, but you’ll have to check out the mag to see the rest…