Hakuba Now: Friday 15th January 2016
- Jan 15, 2016
- 4 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 98cm
Posted on Friday 15th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
Snow was falling for much of the day yesterday on mountain and this morning resorts are again reporting some new cm of fresh - mostly quite similar amounts to what they were yesterday. Here in the village base areas just a few cm.
With this gradual arrival of fresh snow at higher elevations in particular, resorts are gradually being able to open up a bit more as well. This morning I can see that Route 7 at Hakuba 47 is now open as well as (part of) the Merry Land course at Hakuba Goryu. A few more courses have also opened up at the Hakuba Iwatake resort.
Of course we are still in need of (a lot) more snow. Could it be on the way soon?
That forecast I was mentioning yesterday - it's still looking very good indeed for the first part of next week.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall on lower areas and 10cm on upper areas.
All courses are now officially open.
Tree Riding Zone not yet open for the season.
Official snow depth
Upper: 160cm
Base: 30cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 3-5cm of fresh snowfall on lower areas and 10cm on upper area.
Panorama, Grand Prix, Super Course, Champion Dynamic and Woody Courses in upper area; the main Toomi course and the Soft Cream and Merry Land courses in the Iimori area are planned to be open.
Planned lifts:
Telecabin Gondola
Alps Number 1 pair lift
Alps Number 3 pair lift
Toomi Sky Four lift
Toomi Number 1 pair lift
Toomi Number 2 pair lift
Milky Four lift
Official snow depth
Alps: 155cm
Toomi: 50cm
Iimori: 45cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Hakuba Happo-one is reporting 5cm of new snowfall.
Grat (part), Usagidaira, Kurobishi, Panorama, Skyline, Kita One and Riesen Slalom areas are planned to be open, lower course areas still closed.
Take one of the Gondola, Kokusai Number 1 pair, Sakka Kita-one quad or Nakiyama Number 3 triple lifts to get back down to base.
Planned lifts:
Adam Gondola
Grat quad lift
Alpen quad lift
Usagidaira pair lift
Happo Riesen quad
Nakiyama Number 3 triple
Kurobishi Number 2 quad lift
Kurobishi Number 3 pair lift
Skyline Number 2 pair lift
Kokusai Number 1 lift
Kokusai Number 3 lift
Panorama pair lift
Kita One quad lift
Kita One Number 3 pair lift
Official snow depth
Usagidaira: 110cm
Nakiyama: 35cm
Sakka: 15cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall.
The courses at Cortina that remain closed are: Mt Hieda Ridge, Mt Hieda 2 and 3, Itadaria Ridge and Giant.
All other courses are now open.
Planned lifts:
All lifts apart from Number 7 pair lift now operating
Official snow depth
Top: 135cm
Base: 75cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Most areas of Tsugaike Kogen are now at least part open.
Planned lifts:
Almost all of the lifts at Tsugaike Kogen are now operating.
Official snow depth
Tsuga-no-mori: 144cm
Maruyama: 40cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 30cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting up to 5cm of fresh snowfall.
The View C, View D, North and East courses on Mountain Side are currently open.
Planned lifts:
Noah Gondola
View 2
3Sen Line North
4Sen Line East
Line Lift
Official snow depth
Upper: 80cm
Lower: 20cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Official snow depth
50cm
All lifts apart from Number 8 lift are operating and 8 of the 12 courses are open at Hakuba Norikura Onsen.
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth
25cm
Part open with the Number 1 triple lift, Number 2 quad and Number 5 pair lifts operating.g.
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 15th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 98cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 17 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 15cm (4th December) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 34cm reported on 8 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.