Hakuba Now: Saturday 18th December 2021
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 36cm
Snowfall at base this season 72cm
Posted on Saturday 18th December 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Excellent news to report from Hakuba this morning with a really good layer of snow on the ground. I'm adding 36cm to this report, and it still snowing - and cold. Wind doesn't seem to be creating problems which is good, so conditions should be great for anyone heading up to the slopes this morning.
Hakuba Goryu, 47 and Tsugaike are all reporting 50cm of fresh snow on their upper areas with about 30cm added to lower areas. Lower course areas of 47 are open again this morning.
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field and Hakuba Cortina are also both part open from today, so there's now six ski areas open.
The official Happo-one site is struggling this morning (presumably with traffic) so I can't bring you any specifics from there.
Bottom line: Great news. More opening and incoming fresh snow. Some of the info below might be outdated. Hopefully we'll be able to catch up on things tomorrow...
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Hakuba Happo-one
Reported snowfall:
- Kurobishi: 45cm
- Usagidaira: 34cm
- Nakiyama: -cm
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 135cm
- Usagidaira: 107cm
- Nakiyama: -
Planned lift operations:
- Adam Gondola
- Panorama pair lift
- Kokusai Number 3 pair lift
- Alpen quad lift
- Kurobishi Number 2 quad lift
Planned course openings:
- Panorama course
- Usagidaira course
- Kurobishi course
Hakuba 47
Reported snowfall:
- Summit: 50cm
- Base: 30cm
Official snow depth:
- Top: 145cm
- Base: 30cm
Planned lift & course openings:
- All scheduled lifts open (Line D usually only opens when the gondola is not operating)
- Almost all open
- Tree Riding Zones closed
Hakuba Goryu
Reported snowfall:
- Upper: 50cm
Official snow depth:
- Upper: 130cm
- Toomi: ?cm
Planned lift operations:
- Telecabin gondola
- Alps Number 1 pair lift
- Alps Number 3 pair lift
Planned course openings:
- Panorama course
- Grand Prix
- Technical
- Super
Tsugaike Mountain Resort
Reported snowfall:
- Upper: 50cm
Official snow depth:
- Upper: 160cm
- Lower: 50cm
Planned lift & course openings:
- Gondola
- Han-no-ki pair lift
- Tsuga Number 2 pair lift
- Han-no-ki course upper area, Tsuga-no-mori area
Hakuba Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Saturday 18th December 2021 Total snowfall at base so far 72cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 36cm (18th December) November 2021 snowfall 29cm reported on 4 days December 2021 snowfall 43cm reported on 5 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.