Hakuba Now: Thursday 10th March 2016
- Mar 10, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 309cm
Posted on Thursday 10th March 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Morning from Hakuba and there's a bit more fresh snow to report today.
Yesterday it was snowing for lots of the day and about 5cm or so reported from on the slopes. Better than none of course and great to see it falling once again and the feeling of fresh under the board(s). Some nice big flakes as well at times while I was up at Hakuba 47.
This morning just another slight dusting and light snow was falling earlier on and may well still be higher up now but the forecast for the day is generally just cloudy, with a high of around +2C in the village.
It's pretty cold start to the morning though, so wrap up more than you have been the last week or so if you're venturing out. And it appears to be limited visibility in lots of places on mountain as well early on - cloud, 'gas' or fog? One or more of them!
There's still snow on (some of) the forecast(s) from time to time over the next few days. But as they don't all agree, I suspect it's going to be a borderline kind of situation once again.
Around the resorts it looks like the Tree Riding Zone at Hakuba 47 has re-opened. Not sure what the story is there, perhaps the fresh snowfall.
And also the night skiing at Happo-one has now closed for the season due to the snow conditions down on those lower slopes.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses set to open this morning.
It appears that the Tree Riding Zone has re-opened.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 190cm
Base: 85cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0-3cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses open apart from Snow Diving and Adventure.
The Toomi area will be open until 9:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 251cm
Toomi: 125cm
Iimori: 65cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
All courses appear to be open.
Due to the snow conditions on the lower slopes, night skiing has now finished for the season.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 180cm
Nakiyama: 40cm
Sakka: 20cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 2-5cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses open apart from Itadaira Ridge, Itadaira Forest and Giant.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 8pm tonight (9pm on Saturdays).
Official snow depth:
Top: 165cm
Base: 97cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All courses are open except Uma-no-se.
Nighta at Karamatsu/Shirakaba on 12th/19th March.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring (no news yet).
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 233cm
Maruyama: 60cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 60cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Areas of Village Side that remain open - Sunny Valley, by2, by3, Shinden connecting. Kometsuga and Paradise remain part open.
Parts of the Mountain Side that are closed - View A, View B, Kamo 4, Dangan, Sonezawa, Five Side.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 110cm
Lower: 35cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Closed courses are Kamoshika, Highway, Snake, Expert and Satomi Ridge.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Norikura.
Official snow depth:
85cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
70cm
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 10th March 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 309cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 39 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 38cm (20th January) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 138cm reported on 17 days February 2016 snowfall 82cm reported on 11 days March 2016 snowfall 25cm reported on 2 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Hakuba. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.