Hakuba Now: Monday 15th December 2014
- Dec 15, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 107cm
Posted on Monday 15th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Snowing during the day yesterday, though a level down from the heavy snow of the previous day.
Not as much snow as some areas not too far away from us here in Hakuba this morning. 5cm new I'd say in the village this morning, with resorts reporting 5-15cm of fresh on the slopes. Nice regular topups, would be nice to have it deeper on the lower slopes but we're getting there.
Gradually more is opening as well. Riesen at Happo-one opened yesterday for the first time this season allowing you to now ski down to base.
Hakuba Goryu is also now almost fully open.
Snow is falling this morning though the forecast is for it to not last much beyond lunchtime, but start up again later tomorrow. Might not be as cold tomorrow but come Wednesday we're expecting heavy snow and potentially strong winds.
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Happo-one
The Riesen Slalom course opened around lunchtime yesterday - now able to ski down to the Gondola base station. Reporting 15cm fresh snow at Usagidaira this morning.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 60cm
Usagidaira - 150cm
Open lifts:
-Kokusai Number 3
-Panorama
-Alpen Quad
-Kurobishi Number 2 Quad
-Skyline Number 2 pair
-Adam Gondola
Open courses:
-Panorama
-Usagidaira
-Kurobishi
-Skyline
-Riesen (part)
-Shirakaba (part)
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Hakuba 47
10cm on the slopes fresh this morning to add to the 5cm during the day yesterday.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 85cm
Upper - 185cm
Open courses:
-Route 1 Upper
-Route 1 Lower
-Route 2
-Route 3
-Route 5
-Route 6
-Route 7
-Route 8
-The Tree Riding Zone is not open yet.
Open lifts:
-Gondola
-Line A.B
-Line C
-Line E
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Hakuba Goryu
Reporting 10-15cm of snowfall this morning. Most of Hakuba Goryu is now open.
Official Snow depths:
Iimori - 90cm
Toomi - 120cm
Alps Daira - 160cm
Open lifts:
-Alps Number 1 Pair lift
-Alps Number 3 Pair lift
-Gondola
-Toomi Sky Four lift
-Mikly Four lift
-Cosmo Four lift
-Iimori Number 6 Pair lift
Open courses:
-All courses except Merry Land Course plan to be open
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Tsugaike Kogen
Two lifts that were moving over the weekend are not moving today and you can't ski back down to base now with the Maruyama area closed. This seems to be the plan for the week, surely more will be opening at the weekend.
Official Snow depths:
Maruyama - 90cm
Oya-no-hara - 90cm
Tsuga-no-mori - 180cm
Planned open lifts:
-Han-no-ki High Speed Pair
-Tsuga Number 2 Pair lift
-Shirakaba Quad
-Gondola
Open course areas::
-Tsuga no mori
-Upper Han-no-ki
-Lower Han-no-ki
-Shirakaba
-Oya-no-hara
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Hakuba Cortina
Cortina reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning on upper and lower slopes. Upper snow depth now over 2m.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 130cm
Upper - 205cm
Open lifts:
-Number 2 Quad
-Number 4 Pair
Open course areas:
-Ikenota
-Mt Hieda Forest
-Mt Hieda Ridge
-Mt Hieda 1
-Mt Hieda 2
-Mt Hieda 3
-Itadaira
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Kashimayari
Part open
Official Snow depth:
80cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Part open
Official Snow depth:
120cm
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Other planned opening dates:
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field - Friday 19th December
Hakuba Sanosaka - Saturday 20th December
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Data as of Monday 15th December 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 107cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (14th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 107cm reported on 10 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.