Karuizawa boarding

Well, well, well. Looks like I find myself back here after over a year and change's absence.  Well I wanted to document my first boarding outing since I came to japan, so here's I is.
Karuizawa is a small city on the way to Nagano from Tokyo.  Now the great thing about the slope that I want to is that it's also on the way to Nagano. As in get off the bullet train and walk 5 minutes to the lodge. Can't top that.  So what's it like? Well it's smaller that a mountain but larger than a molehill. About Blue Mountain size. The boarding itself was decent, but with the daytime high of 4C today it was a little soft in spots and a little icy in others.  All in all though, a decent day.