Video: New Ski Doc Captures Japan’s Magnificent Backcountry Powder

If Japan doesn't come to mind when you think of world class backcountry powder, it should.  "It's the best snow I've ever skied in my life," said Nick Waggoner, Director of Sweetgrass Productions. "The best. Ever. …It's known as a powder
Mecca." Fresh out of six months in Hokkaido, Japan, Waggoner and the group of adventuresome twenty-somethings that make up Sweetgrass Productions are set to release their second feature length ski documentary. The film, Signatures (see trailer, above), follows the seasons of Japan along with the life
of Taro Tamai, a Japanese rider akin to the likes of the original American boarding legend Craig Kelly. Signatures premieres September 19th in Aspen and Montreal. —Greer Schott