Hakuba Now: Friday 13th December 2013
- Dec 13, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 57cm
Posted on Friday 13th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
More snow since the report yesterday.... Happo have added 20cm to their upper slopes, Goryu reporting 10cm and Hakuba 47 reporting 15cm up top.
Just a few more cm down at base areas.
Snow still falling I am happy to report. And we should be seeing snow clouds over the valley until the end of the weekend, so there is more to fall.
I'm liking it. Loving it, even!
I'm going to try and keep up with the news from around the resorts in each report as the season kicks off properly here. Gambarimasu! Things may well change during the day so please keep that in mind.
Pretty much all of Hakuba 47 is now open, with Hakuba Goryu planning on opening at least part of Toomi from tomorrow. Happo plan to be operating the Kokusai Number 1 pair and Skyline Number 2 pair lifts tomorrow in addition to what they already have going, the Gondola will still be just used for getting up to the open slopes.
Tsugaike Kogen has 192cm as the official snow depth on it's upper slopes. That's impressive. I don't see any changes in lift and course openings there, but would expect that for tomorrow.
So we're not quite there yet with resort operations, but there's certainly going to be more open this weekend and from what I have heard from a few friends yesterday the conditions were great out there. Deep as you would want. While they were very excited and using all sorts of adjectives freely, I do believe them! ;)
Hakuba Cortina of course is well known as getting excellent snow, and they are opening up tomorrow for the season. Norikura seem a bit shy with details but we have found out that they plan to have one lift operating from tomorrow morning.
Anyway, should be a very fine weekend.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning on upper slopes.
Upper - 125cm
Iimori - -cm
Toomi - 65cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Alps Number 1, Alps Number 3.
Upper slope area open. Toomi area will open from tomorrow (Saturday).
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 3cm at base and 15cm of fresh snow on upper slopes this morning.
Upper - 155cm
Lower - 35cm
Lifts operating: All moving apart from Line D.
All areas basically open apart from Route 4 Snow Park and Tree Riding Zone.
Happo-one:
Usagidaira - 170cm
Nakiyama - -cm
Sakka - -cm
Lifts operating: Adam Gondola, Alpen Quad, Kurobishi Number 2 quad, Hakuba Kokusai Number 3 pair, Panorama pair. The Gondola is just for getting to and from the open slopes.
Upper slopes (excluding top quad lift) area open.
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 192cm
Maruyama - 25cm
Kanenonaruoka - 25cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Hannoki pair, Tsuga Number 2 pair lift.
Other resorts planned opening dates:
Hakuba Norikura - mid December
Cortina - 14th December
Hakuba Iwatake - 20th December
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Data as of Friday 13th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 57cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 22cm reported on 4 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.