Hokkaido · Backcountry
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Hokkaido backcountry areas — Mt Yotei now, more on the way.
A symmetric stratovolcano — every aspect, five classic routes, up to the crater.
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Hokkaido's highest peak, 2291 m — ropeway access, volcanic gas (Jigokudani) and fierce wind to respect.
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A standalone cone by Rusutsu — the popular West Bowl is a slide-path; ski it stable only.
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Active volcano, 2077 m. The summit is inside the alert-level-2 restriction; right now Sandan-yama and the Ansei-crater valley are among the few objectives outside it.
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Niseko's main peak, 1308 m — the classic north-face loop to Goshiki Onsen, plus quiet west-face laps.
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Sapporo's highest peak, 1488 m — a long, quiet round trip from Kiroro with a fully alpine summit ridge.
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The SW anchor of the Tokachi Range, 1912 m — winter lines climb the Giant Ridge and Nishi-shamen to ~1500 m on the ridge.
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From Fukiage Onsen (Hakuginso) to 1748 m — the three-bench ridge, one of the few Tokachi objectives outside the current restriction.
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The 1984 m buttress at Daisetsuzan's northern edge — the Sounkyo Ropeway lifts you to 1300 m, then real alpine above treeline, flanked by cliff-lined gorges.
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A 1721 m volcano rising straight out of the Sea of Japan — near-sea-level to summit, at its best in March–April. The expedition flagship.
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The youngest volcano in the Niseko Range, 1116 m — an easy half-day from Goshiki Onsen, plus one of the range's steepest chutes.
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The classic peak of the western Niseko Range, 1134 m — the standard south face, and a lee-loaded southeast face that hoards deep powder.
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The quiet gem at the west end of the Niseko Range, 1220 m — a bouldery summit tower above glades and old-growth forest skiing.
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The white whaleback SW of Sapporo, 1464 m — two long classics via Toyoha Motoyama and Usubetsu.
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One of the busiest peaks in the Niseko Range, 1080 m — a hot-lap southwest face, plus west and southeast lines.
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A conical 1074 m peak west of Chisenupuri — the standard col traverse from the ski area, plus a longer south-face approach from the Niimi Pass.
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A 1045 m peak NNW of Niseko United — the site of the defunct Weiss ski area, up the east ridge through forest.
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A smoking 1023 m active volcano south of Lake Shikotsu — a long forest-road approach from the winter road-closure point to a wind-scoured outer rim. The lava dome is a marked no-go zone.
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A 2052 m stratovolcano northeast of Tokachi-dake. From Shirogane Onsen through the forest to a wind-scoured northwest ridge; south of the summit the Ponpi-sawa basin drops away in chutes and rock spurs — remote, exposed, advanced.
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The 1318 m high point of the northwest Lake Shikotsu caldera rim, just west of Eniwa-dake — a quiet half-day tour within reach of Sapporo. A forest-road approach, then the east ridge through trees to a steep pitch below the summit. Better than its obscurity suggests, and rarely crowded.
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A short half-day up a single ridge from the Lake Shikotsu lookout on the north shore — 829 m, with Eniwa-dake filling the view across the water. Quiet and modest in size, but not as gentle as the vertical suggests: the SE forest ridge threads a 30° median and a 39° max between open trees. Beginner numbers over a slope that never really relents.
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Above Lake Okotanpe on the Shikotsu caldera rim — 968 m, short on both distance and vertical, yet the least gentle of the three Shikotsu peaks. The east forest carries a 33° median and a 42° max, is classed ATES complex, and puts ~27% of its reachable slope in avalanche start zones. The source is blunt that it is "intermediate despite the beginner numbers": a steep zigzag up, tree-dodging on the way down. A peak whose small figures undersell the ground.
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