Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The wind gods were kind and allowed a day where the cable car was running up to the mighty Asahidake backcountry slopes. Challenging terrain, but quintessential JaPOW! action up there. GillyG was a bit jiggered out from too much previous off-piste, digging out of waist deep pow shenanigans, so she sat it out, but hopefully we'll be back at the end of the week before we head home.
Music: Japan Girl by Andreas Ericson (licensed via Epidemic Sound)
The wind gods were kind and allowed a day where the cable car was running up to the mighty Asahidake backcountry slopes. Challenging terrain, but quintessential JaPOW! action up there. GillyG was a bit jiggered out from too much previous off-piste, digging out of waist deep pow shenanigans, so she sat it out, but hopefully we'll be back at the end of the week before we head home.
Music: Japan Girl by Andreas Ericson (licensed via Epidemic Sound)
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After installing the FPV equipment on my reliable TBS Discovery quad, it transformed itself into an uncontrollable meteor.
Postmortem analysis revealed that*something* caused the Naza to go into manual mode after take off (i.e. zero flight and levelling assistance) and I freaked out and crashed it into the ground. Ive never flown manual before so it freaked me out, but if Id known that was what happened I would have acted differently and either tried to level it manually, or better still kill the radio controller and go into failsafe mode. Hard lesson learnt!
Cost of repair = £30 ... replacing shattered arms and props. Everything else was bruised but okay.")
