North Camps.

Carefully curated camps to make the most of your every moment in Hokkaido.

Ski & Snowboard Camps

We offer a range of exciting ski and snowboard camps, together with our experienced team of North Guides and Photographers.

Central Hokkaido

The thrill of leaving the more popular runs behind and hiking into the backcountry along the Daisetsuzan range is not to be missed. Known as Kamuimintara in the Ainu people’s (indigenous people of Hokkaido) language, which translates to garden where the Gods play.
We will take you wherever is best each day. We will also tour at sunrise, ski waist-deep powder with no one else in sight and soak in natural forest onsens with a tasty beverage after a satisfying day.
10th - 17th February 2025
¥330,000 per person for up to 5 people maximum
- A qualified and experienced NZMGA lead guide
- Tail guide that is also a photographer
- Professionally taken and retouched images from every day of the tour
- A professionally edited video
- Transfers to and from Sapporo or Asahikawa Airports
- Accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Onsen entry fees for 3 days
- Avalanche pack (including beacon, shovel & probe)
- Lift and ropeway passes for 3 days of lift access backcountry skiing & riding
- Dinner excursions and cultural experiences

Niseko

Explore Niseko’s backcountry with a group of like minded women. Learn about how to stay safe in the backcountry, use your equipment and understand terrain, and analyse snow conditions and avalanche risks.
It will be a mix of lift accessed backcountry and full touring. We will take you to wherever is best each day. Be prepare to ski waist-deep powder with no one else in sight, soak in an onsen and then finish it off with a cocktail and delicious Japanese feast at one of our many favourite spots.
20th - 27th January 2025
¥330,000 per person for up to 5 people maximum
- A qualified and experienced NZMGA female lead guide
- Female tail guide that is also a photographer
- Professionally taken and retouched images from every day of the tour
- A professionally edited video
- Transfers to and from Sapporo Airport
- Accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Onsen entry fees for 3 days
- Avalanche pack (including beacon, shovel & probe)
- Lift and ropeway passes for 3 days of lift access backcountry skiing & riding
- Dinner excursions and cultural experiences

Niseko

We have teamed up with the crew at Yuki Threads to bring you to Niseko this year. This is a jammed packed tour made for Yuki fans who love to shred!
The ultimate aim of any Yuki Threads experience is to break down the intimidation barriers for those wanting to progress their shredding in the park and around the mountain. So get ready to send it off jumps, pillows and everything in between. We can guarantee the stoke levels will be at an all time high on camp!
2025 Dates TBC
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- A qualified and experienced NZMGA lead guide
- Professional photographer tail guide, all imagery and a video provided post camp
- Transfers to and from Sapporo Airport
- Accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Onsen entry fees for 3 days
- Avalanche pack (including beacon, shovel & probe)
- Lift passes for 6 days of lift access backcountry skiing & riding
- Dinner excursions and cultural experiences
- Co-branded beanie & hoodie

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Central Hokkaido is an undiscovered gem in both summer - with endless flower fields and hiking, and winter skiing!

Central Hokkaido - Biei

Hokkaido is mountainous at heart, and has extensive forests, enormous coastal wetlands, craggy cliffs and offshore islands. In winter it’s famous for its small surviving populations of Blakistons fish owls, as well as its plentiful red foxes, abundant sika deer, winter hordes of whopper swans and dramatic concentrations of sea eagles. Most of all, it’s famous for its breeding and wintering population of grace embodied – the red-crowned cranes of east Hokkaido.
This all makes for a landscape and wildlife photographer’s dream in any season, and we can take you searching for these animals through some stunning landscapes in your own private transport.
7th - 17th February, 2025
¥450,000 per person for up to 4 people maximum
- A qualified and experienced Photographer/Guide
- Professionally taken and retouched images from every day of the tour
- Transfers to and from Sapporo or Asahikawa Airports
- Accommodation in private room
- Daily breakfast
- Onsen entry fees for 3 days
- Boat fees and other entry fees
- Dinner excursions and cultural experiences

Niseko

The Action Media Workshop is a once in a life time opportunity to improve your photography game with the aim of turning it into a profitable future business.
The focus of this camp is on preparing for and shooting professional skiers and snowboarders in action. We will also help you to develop strategies to market yourself and sell your work to sponsors and media outlets. To achieve this you will be working with real-life pros who are prepared to launch themselves off whatever the creative collective comes up with in the name of a good shot.
3rd - 10th March, 2025
¥305,000 per person for up to 5 people maximum
- Actions sports photography instructor
- A qualified and experienced NZMGA lead guide
- Pro athletes as models
- Transfers to and from Sapporo Airport
- Accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Onsen entry fees for 3 days
- Avalanche pack (including beacon, shovel & probe)
- Dinner excursions and cultural experiences