Hakuba Now: Friday 10th November 2017
- Nov 10, 2017
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
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Posted on Friday 10th November 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Welcome back to Hakuba Now on SnowJapan.
How was your summer? I spent some of it here in Hakuba and some of it away. Summer didn’t bring us typical summer weather conditions this year, being rather wetter than usual. Let’s hope that we can get through all the ‘wet’, and that the upcoming winter will be very much ‘dry’... and powdery of course!
I’m glad to be back, all revved up and ready to report to you from Hakuba every day once again and I hope that I’ll be able to bring you lots of positive snow news. An early good start to the season would be a perfect start.
First up, here’s are the latest planned resorts opening dates:
Thursday 23rd November 2017
Hakuba Happo-one
Tsugaike Kogen
Late November 2017
Hakuba 47
Hakuba Goryu
Friday 15th December 2017
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Saturday 16th December 2017
Hakuba Cortina
Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
Mid December 2017
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Hakuba Sanosaka
In ski resort news, the main thing I can report is that this season Hakuba Sanosaka will not be part of the joint ‘Hakuba Valley’ ticket deal. There were various rumours going around about Sanosaka over summer… it will be opening but it looks like operations will be somewhat scaled down with just three lifts (Number 2 quad lift, Number 3 quad lift, Number 6 pair lift) scheduled to be operating. The ‘Hakuba Valley’ lift ticket prices for the 2017-2018 season have been updated on each of the 9 ski resort pages on SnowJapan.
In snow news, we have had some mountain snowfall already at times 20cm and more at higher elevations. The snow-capped mountain tops are looking lovely today. Check out the Happo webcam images below from earlier this morning.
Everyone is in pre-season ‘panic’ mode. Don’t worry, nothing to be concerned about - this is the norm! No matter how much time we sometimes seem to have, there always seems to be mad rushing about going on in the run up to the season starting. All part of the pattern, part of the fun.
Some of the official information sources are still not updated for the 2017-2018 season which, if I wasn’t used to being here, would seem odd. The ski resort pages on SnowJapan have generally been updated but will be updated further over the coming few weeks.
That’s it for me for today.
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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.