Matt

Its not sticking so 0cm.

I'm in Wadano and its been snowing lightly all morning here.

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude Yeah looks really snowy http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/nagano/hakuba-road1.html Its been snowing down to village level all morning in Hakuba. Very lightly and not sticking though. That webcam is in Omachi (the town to the south of Hakuba) BTW

Originally Posted By: tripler Originally Posted By: Matt Looks like a potential major system from mid december (14th/15th) on http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Christmas should be fine. Matt, 2 weeks ago (below) you said it would dump this week. You got that wrong, why should I believe you now? Originally Posted By: Matt Looks like nothing until the 3rd or 4th of December after which theres a nice system shaping up on the medium range wx forecast. http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Early days yet, but should keep an eye on it. Notice the words "potential" and

We need to find a similar landmark in Hakuba to chronicle as it gets buried in snow!

Was talking to Muikabochi Lets hope the forecasts are good then eh! Where in Hakuba are you, best skier in Hakuba?

So the last 5 days of the 15 day forecast with temperature highs of -2 and lows of -11 and snow doesn't cheer you up in the slightest? I'm pretty happy about it - Can't wait to try my new splitboard out!

Heres another weather report 15 day Hakuba forecast

Looks like a potential major system from mid december (14th/15th) on http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Christmas should be fine.

Looks like nothing until the 3rd or 4th of December after which theres a nice system shaping up on the medium range wx forecast. http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Early days yet, but should keep an eye on it.

wow that was fast! My point is it rains anywhere and last season was a rare season in Hokkaido and Honshu. There is usually 1 and possibly two rain events mid season in Hakuba and those rain events for the most part turn straight into humungous dumps of snow. I've been in Hakuba 11 seasons and there have only been two iffy seasons (last season and three seasons ago) and even in those seasons I still got plenty of powder. The other seasons were all pretty much non stop powder the whole way through!

Originally Posted By: Miro Some advice from those experienced at Hakuba. For the past three years we have skied at Niseko in late Jan / early Feb. This year we are probably making the change and going to Hakuba (looking for some longer runs, new slopes, and hopefully similar amounts of snow). Yesterday I took the time to read the daily reports from the past 4 years for January and Febraury and it left me a bit worried. So a little help please. 1. How cold would it normally be on mountain in the first two week of February? (it doesn't seem nearly as cold as Niseko) 2. It seems to rain a l

If you do a nighta in Hakuba don't even bother with the Happo and Goryu nightas which are tiny bunny run areas that take two turns before its over . Go down the road to Kashimayari (about 15 minutes drive). If its dumping its great. Lots of vertical and two runs with a forest area in between which lets in enough light to see by. The runs have a bunch of good hits to huck off and its usually deserted! If it isn't snowing or hasn't snowed that day I wouldn't bother though (and that goes for any nighter including niseko's)

Having said that the lower slopes at Shiga kogen probably still have snow on them now whereas the snows definitely gone now on the lower slopes in Hakuba.

Originally Posted By: muikabochi I'd imagine Shiga Kogen is better than Hakuba. (Altitude/lifts or whatever) the fact is that snow conditions certainly were better - actually considerably better - in Shiga Kogen than they were in Hakuba when I went (to both) on 30th and 31st March. Here's what I said at the time: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/308980/Current_conditions_report_Shig.html Although to actually make a fair comparison you would have had to go to both on the same day. When you went to Hakuba the day after Shiga kogen there was already an extra day

Originally Posted By: sanjo Yes I always find it amusing how Kagura can get 50cm of new snow and their snow depth doesn't increase. It's like Matt's 40cm + 40cm over the last week. That equals 80cm right? Sure hasn't been anything like reflected in the snow depths. (Not a rag at you Matt, just an example). It rained heavily between those two 40cm dumps so that probably cancelled them out...

that was quick!

Originally Posted By: BagOfCrisps Got to laugh.... (* meaning a) not much anyone can do about the snowfall and GN is stirring) Thats ALL GN seems to do... Anyway, the part of Hakuba I was in had 110cm base at the bottom and 2m at the top so was in a fairly healthy state - oh and the top 40cm of that was fresh light powder!

ooookkk...

Originally Posted By: Go Native Best advice I can give is you should have come to Niseko, it's going off at the moment! Don't listen to him Matteus We had 40cm fresh bluebird day today in Hakuba. Untracked all day and its looking good for the rest of the week.

That resort said 210cm at the mid station and 45cm at the bottom so I don't think they were lying.

yes, it just started

Yeah it was 40cm up high but only 20cm or so down low..not trying to mislead anyone.

Originally Posted By: isomorph Oops, sorry I must have been mistaken. Best season ever!!!!! erm no... not the best season ever but its still going to snow this season

Originally Posted By: isomorph It's not going to snow much more this season mark my words. Unfortunately, most of Honshu isn't going to get any sustained peak season conditions. I think the season will be over in some places end of this month. It snowed 40cm the night before last in Hakuba... Next week looks good - getting colder from Sunday with some good falls on the 17th hopefully. Also the 21st/22nd is looking really good http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/9panel/gfsx_500p_9panel_easia.html http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html Before that we're going to have to hunker down a