Hakuba Now: Tuesday 16th December 2014
- Dec 16, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 109cm
Posted on Tuesday 16th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Hello and good morning from Hakuba.
It has started snowing (lightly) now but this is very probably the start of a lot that is due to fall over the next few days. Oh yes. In fact it quickly seems to be getting heavier just over the last 10 minutes. Bring it on, as they say. And so do I.
So, heavy snow is expected today and tomorrow. It might get very windy too. And it will definitely be getting colder.
All of the courses at the connecting Hakuba Goryu and Hakuba 47 resorts are now open. I totally expect more of Happo-one to be open from the weekend but no confirmation of solid news on that just at the moment. With the snow due before the weekend, I would actually expect pretty much all areas of Hakuba to be open come the weekend.
Yey.
The Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field plans to open from Friday, with Hakuba Sanosaka joining in the fun from Saturday.
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Happo-one
Reporting 10cm 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
3cm at base and on the mountain fresh this morning. All runs now open.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 80cm
Upper - 180cm
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 0cm at base and 5cm of snowfall higher up this morning. All courses at Hakuba Goryu are now open.
Official Snow depths:
Iimori - 100cm
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
-Iimori Number 1 Pair lift
Open courses:
-All courses are now open.
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Tsugaike Kogen
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
-Rinkan (part)
-Shirakaba
-Oya-no-hara
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Hakuba Cortina
Cortina reporting 1-2cm of fresh snow this morning.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 135cm
Upper - 212cm
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
Hakuba Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Tuesday 16th December 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 109cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (14th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 109cm reported on 11 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.