Tag: winter
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Snowboarding Japan: My Top Tips After Two Seasons of Japow
On my first day riding Japow, I got stuck in a riverbed with powder up to my neck. That’s when I realized that snowboarding Japan would be different from anything I had ever experienced. It was an epic day, and the start of my learning experience. Japow, the famed light, dry, fluffy powder that covers…
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Inari, Finland: How to Visit the Sámi Cultural Capital
Inari, Finland, is a small village with big cultural importance. It is considered the cultural capital of the Sámi people. Considered Europe’s only indigenous group, the Sámi are reindeer herders, living well above the Arctic circle. Their homelands stretch through Lapland, across the North of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. If you want to understand…
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