LEFT TO RIGHT “A different kind of bachelor party with my international friends. In the days leading up to my wedding, we used a network of forestry roads to access this platform situated beneath a gallery of glorious faces.” Kitataisetsu, Hok-kaido, Japan. Photo: Ryan Taylor Ashibetsu-dake’s north face looms in the background as the author opens a large face in the Yubari Mountains of central Hokkaido at dawn. Though ski areas were virtually aban-doned and untracked all season long, the slog through waist-deep powder was worth it for these turns. Photo: Ryan Taylor Hokkaido 061
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