Hakuba Now: Saturday 19th December 2020
- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 28cm
Snowfall at base this season 91cm
Posted on Saturday 19th December 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
It is a great morning too.
Ski areas around the valley this morning reporting up to 50cm of fresh snow on the upper areas, and I can report closing in on 30cm from base.
Much of Happo-one is now open, pretty much all of Happo-one is open, more of Goryu opens this morning...
Cortina is also open today and they already have a snow depth of 225cm on their upper areas, and reporting 40-50cm this morning).
In fact from today I am happy to report that all of the ski areas in the region are now at least part open. That is excellent news.
I have done what I can to check and update all of the info below.
It's just so good to see all this snow falling. Apart from the obvious, I'm looking forward to just being able to say 'all open' for each ski area and not have to be checking so much information each morning. I couldn't do that once last year and apart from being time consuming for me personally (and disappointing and annoying), it just felt like an ongoing struggle.
More snow and everywhere able to open, that's what we all want. People coming to enjoy themselves. Social distancing, wearing a mask and respecting all of those things. But just being able to take some time out from all that lot and having some responsible and honest fun. Let it be!
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- Alpen quad
- Happo Riesen quad
- Nakiyama 3
- ADAM Gondola
- Panorama
- Kokusai 1
- Kokusai 3
- Kurobishi quad
- Skyline 2
- Sakka Kitaone quad
All courses now open apart from:
- Riesen Grat
- Tenbo
- Urakuro
- Omusubi
- Kitaone New
- Nakiyama Wall
- Nakiyama North
- Sakka South
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 190cm
- Usagidaira: 164cm
- Nakiyama: 62cm
Hakuba 47
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Line D (operates when Gondola is not open)
Available runs:
- All main courses open
- Tree Riding Zones not open yet
Official snow depth:
- Top: 145cm
- Base: 105cm
Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- Goryu Telecabin (Gondola)
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Alps Number 3 pair
- Toomi Sky Four quad
- Milky Four
- Number 6 pair
Available runs:
- Panorama
- Grand Prix
- Technical
- Super
- Champion Dynamic
- Champion Expert
- Woody
- Toomi
- Soft Cream
- Powder Snow
Official snow depth:
- Alps: ?cm
- Toomi: ?cm
- Iimori: 50cm
Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Hannoki high speed pair
- Tsuga Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba quad
Available runs:
- Tsuganomori
- Hannoki
- Shirakaba
Official snow depth:
- Top: 170cm
- Base: 70cm
Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- Number 1 pair
- Number 2 quad
- Number 4 pair
Official snow depth:
- Top: 225cm
- Base: 140cm
Hakuba Iwatake
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4 East
- 5 South
Available runs:
- East
- South
- Sunny Valley course
Official snow depth:
- Top: 130cm
- Base: 30cm
Hakuba Now 2020-2021 season |
Data as of Saturday 19th December 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 91cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (17th December) November 2020 snowfall 0cm December 2020 snowfall 91cm reported on 6 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.