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Quote: It will be really great if lots of people do the same for other resorts in Japan so that I can visualise them all. We think so too janjan and apart from letting everyone easily create their own photo galleries, that was one of the main things we were hoping for when we were developing that new section. It's looking good so far I think, keep them coming everyone Nice pics of Kandatsu!

We'll be putting up pics courtesy of Kagura soon, but looking forward to your pics as well uggggllllyyyy, glad you had a good time.

Hope you like them Sanno. We found it really hard to take a good photo of them.... hard to describe but they are shinier and a deeper/brighter blue than they look on photos.

Okutadami Maruyama will be opening up tomorrow - the first in Niigata with natural snow.... they reckon they have about 70-80cm up there (5 courses to open above number 2 lift) A small part of Kita Shiga Ryuo in Nagano will also open (artificual snow).

That's looking good!

Hi RockyV - good to hear you had a good time. About links to your own Photo Gallery. If a user clicks on the link you put in the thread above, they will go to their own photo gallery (or the login page if they are not logged in). At the bottom of your own Gallery you will see this: >>>>>>> To Send this link to your friends click here The unique address of this page for other people to see is as follows: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo.php?userid=yourusername >>>>>> Use either of those methods to tell people dire

Sorry - yes very good point number9........

Hi RockyV Their site seems to be saying that "early ski" will set you back 3,900 yen for the day. http://www.kumanoyu.co.jp/lift/lift_fee.htm The road over from Gunma to Shiga Kogen will be closed for the winter from 1pm today, so you won't be able to get over from that way (ie. you'll have to approach the area from Yamanouchi town). Have a good time. And remember to take some pics

(Very) small parts of Shiga Kogen will officially be opening up tomorrow: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/shiga-kogen-now.php

Two more vid clips from puretele have been added: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-vids-puretele.html

The Sahoro cam does seem down now. oakesash, links to cam images can be found here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/index.html Thanks

Someone you know....

Check the Iwappara cams on the Now! page as well: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now.php

Snow (nearly) half way down Yuzawa Kogen, you might just about be able to see (imagine!) it on this photo taken 10 minutes ago. Rain in the town though.

OK, another update of Niseko images. A new second webcam image is now featured on the Niseko Now! page of the site: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/niseko-now.php It is also in the main webcam center as well: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/index.html Direct link: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/webcam/hokkaido/hirafu-3.html Thanks

Thanks montoya. Yes, that page is very complex (display/coding wise) and it's a really big job every year deciding what goes on there and how to present it all in what we think is the best way we can. One thing to point out - the weather/snow depth info is due to start towards the end of November (so that is why at the moment the snow depth charts are empty and showing the last update as June).

Hi there If you also send photos to us, we will put them up on the relevant Now! page of the site (as well as you having them in your SJ photo gallery). More info here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/nowphotos.html Thanks

Just for your info, we have just got permission to add that Yotei webcam to our own Now! page (as well as the SJ webcam center - the Annupuri one is already on there) - and we hope to have that updated by the end of tomorrow. (And if you ever know of any good webcams that are not already on our site but you think would be a good addition, then please do email us with the info and we will see what we can do. Thanks!)

Thanks Yamakashi - looking forward to your order. We're getting a first sample later today and then if that is ok will be making a decision on how many of these to get printed (so please get your orders in if you intend to get any!) Thanks

Definitely possible!

(Oops just had a bit of a mail crash. If anyone filled out that form in the last 15 minutes, please go back and fill it in again as we didn't get a mail coming in from there. Sorry!)

Look at the right hand side of the page: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=120 (Links to maps will be appearing on many resort pages in the coming days and weeks - English ones when we know about them and are available)

Just want to point out that the Now pages are not updated by resorts (heaven forbid!) - they are Snow Japan reports, our pages and updated by people based in those areas connected to the site.

And also check the Hakuba, Shiga Kogen and Yuzawa Now pages

A new thread for the new snow spotted in a few places this morning. Some Now! updates (and photos from Hakuba and Yuzawa as well) http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/hakuba-now.php http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/yuzawa-now.php http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/shiga-kogen-now.php Snow is good.