Hakuba Now: Friday 19th December 2014
- Dec 19, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 189cm
Posted on Friday 19th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
It's a lovely morning in Hakuba.
15-20cm or so on the ground here since yesterday. More on the mountains. Blue skies. Calm conditions after the storm. Cold though, brrr.
What more could we want. More of Happo opening now with more lifts operating and runs open.
Could this weekend by the first weekend that sees resorts pretty much all fully open? I think it might!
Expect quite a few people to turn up to enjoy it all as well. As well they should. Cloud with snow returning in the evening is what the forecasts have for us.
I can't think of much else to say this very fine morning. As some folk seem to say... it's 'The Day'!
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Information from around the resorts - at the time of writing
Happo-one
Reporting 30+cm of fresh snow this morning.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 120cm
Usagidaira - 210cm
Open lifts:
-Alpen Quad
-Happo Risen Quad
-Nakiyama Number 3 Triple
-Adam Gondola
-Panorama
-Kokusai 3
-Sakka Kitaone Quad
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Hakuba 47
30cm at base, 60cm of fresh on the mountain this morning. The Gondola, Line C and Line E lifts on hold due to wind. Route 1 Upper, Route 2, 3 and 8 not open.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 140cm
Upper - 210cm
Open lifts:
-Gondola
-Line A.B
-Line C
-Line E
Open courses:
-All courses open except Route 4 where they're preparing Snow Park items and the Tree Riding Zone
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Hakuba Goryu
Reporting 5cm at Toomi, 20cm at Iimori and 10cm on upper slopes this morning.
Official Snow depths:
Iimori - 150cm
Toomi - 175cm
Alps Daira - 230cm
Open lifts:
-All lifts operating except Alps Daira 2 & 4
Open courses:
-All courses apart from Adventure Course are open.
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Hakuba Iwatake
Open from this morning. Part open.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 100cm
Top - 160cm
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Tsugaike Kogen
Gondola doesn't seem to be moving this morning early on - due to 'adverse weather' (?). Perhaps dealing with large amount of snow or something...
Official Snow depths:
Maruyama - 250cm
Oya-no-hara - 200cm
Tsuga-no-mori - 305cm
Planned open lifts:
-Shirakaba Quad
-Maruyama Number 1 Quad
-Tsugaike Chuo Triple
-Karamatsu high speed pair
Open course areas::
-Shirakaba
-Oya-no-hara
-Maruyama
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Hakuba Cortina
Cortina reporting 10-13cm of fresh snow this morning. Back to how we were before the storm. Just more snow!
Sorry, yesterday I had the base at 2000cm of snow - Cortina is famous for getting lots of snow but that would be shocking! The correct number was 200cm of course. I've changed that for the record.
Official Snow depths:
Base - 205cm
Upper - 275cm
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, fully open from this weekend.
Official Snow depth:
130cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Part open
Official Snow depth:
230cm
Hakuba Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Friday 19th December 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 189cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 14 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (14th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 189cm reported on 14 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.