Hakuba Now: Thursday 16th January 2020
- Jan 16, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 81cm
Posted on Thursday 16th January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning everyone.
Snow falling in the afternoon and evening yesterday - and falling very nicely at times in the evening... everyone egging it on!
Alas it just doesn't seem to want to keep going and continuing and really building up.
Still, result. I have just over 4cm to report from base and we have another 5-10cm being reported from around the resorts this morning.
Sounds like it was rather windy overnight on mountain and so there will be areas of more and less up there. Should be some nice conditions to find.
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Kurobishi Number 3 pair
- Nakiyama Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba Number 1 pair
- Shirakaba Number 2 pair
- Central pair
- Sakka Number 2 pair
- Sakka Number 3 triple
Courses open:
- Panorama
- Usagidaira
- Kurobishi
- Skyline
- Riesen Slalom
- Kita-one 3
- Nakiyama South also part open so you can ski/board back to base over on that side area
- Otherwise, take lifts back down to base
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 180cm
- Usagidaira: 115cm
- Nakiyama: 30cm
Hakuba 47
All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Pair Line D (usually only operates when Gondola not operating)
Courses open:
- All main courses now open
- Tree Riding Zones not yet available
Official snow depth:
- Top: 145cm
- Base: 50cm
Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Toomi Number 2 pair
- Cosmo Four
Courses open:
- All courses are open now apart from the following:
- Cosmo River
- Sunny Way
- Straight Whiskey
- Snow Diving
- Adventure
Official snow depth:
- Alps: 145cm
- Toomi: 65cm
- Iimori: 50cm
Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Han-no-ki Number 4
- Tsuga-no-mori Number 1
- Han-no-ki Number 3 quad
- Han-no-ki Number 2 pair
- Han-no-ki Number 1 quad
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner I
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner IV
- Kane-no-naru-oka Number 11 romance
Courses open:
- Most course areas are now at least part open
- DBD not available yet
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 140cm
- Maruyama: 40cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 15cm
Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- All lifts are operating
Operating courses:
- A few courses restrictions (Giant on hold currently)
Official snow depth:
- Top: 120cm
- Base: 55cm
Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- All lifts are operating
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 7 and 10 are operating
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4sen East
- 4sen North
- View2
- 5sen South
Hakuba Sanosaka
Operating lifts:
- All four lifts are operating
Hakuba Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Thursday 16th January 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 81cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 18 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 28cm reported on 8 days January 2020 snowfall 49cm reported on 9 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.