Hakuba Now: Wednesday 1st January 2020
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 33cm
Posted on Wednesday 1st January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Happy New Year!
The wet stuff changing into snow in the afternoon yesterday and even though Hakuba 47 were, for example, reporting 5cm of snowfall in the afternoon, they don't seem to be registering that this morning. And Hakuba Cortina are reporting 20cm of fresh at both base and on upper slopes.
It is a cold morning, the sun is out and there's lots of blue sky all around with some clouds hanging around higher mountain areas.
Beautiful.
I'd love to go out but for some reason I have a bit of a headache. Can't think why. Perhaps a gentle hour or two on the slopes will help.
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- Happo Gondola Adam
- Kokusai Number 1 pair lift
- Kokusai Number 3 pair lift
- Panorama pair lift
- Alpen lift
- Kurobishi Number 2 lift
- Usagidaira pair lift
- Skyline Number 1 lift
- Skyline Number 2 lift
- Nakiyama Number 3 lift
- Riesen quad lift
- Sakka Kita One quad lift
- Grat quad (*sightseeing only)
Courses open:
- Panorama
- Usagidaira
- Kurobishi
- Skyline
- Riesen
- Base areas not yet open - get lifts back down to base
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 85cm
- Usagidaira: 60cm
- Lower: 0cm
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Hakuba 47
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Line A B pair lift
- Line C quad lift
- Line E pair lift
Courses open:
- Most courses are now open
- R7 not open
- Tree Riding Zones not yet available
Official snow depth:
- Top: 70cm
- Base: 10cm
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Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- Gondola (need to take the gondola back to base from the open upper area)
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Alps Number 3 pair
- Alps Number 2/4 pair
- Toomi Sky Four quad
- Toomi Number 1 pair
- Milky Four quad
Courses open:
- Panorama
- Grand Prix
- Technical
- Super
- Toomi (part)
- Soft Cream
Official snow depth:
- Alps: 70cm
- Toomi: 35cm
- Iimori: 45cm
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Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- Gondola (need to take the gondola back to base from the open upper area)
- Han-no-ki pair
- Tsuga Number 2 pair
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner II
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner III
Courses open:
- Han-kou
- Tsuga-no-mori
- Kane-no-naru-oka (part)
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 81cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 5cm
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Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- Number 2 pair lift
- Number 3 quad lift
- Number 6 quad lift
- Course 2 and 3 open
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Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- Number 1 lift
- Number 2 lift
- Number 4 lift
Official snow depth:
- Top: 75cm
- Base: 45cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Operating lifts:
- Alps Number 1 pair lift
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4sen East
- 4sen North
Hakuba Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Wednesday 1st January 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 33cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 5cm (6th December) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 28cm reported on 8 days January 2020 snowfall 1cm reported on 1 day |
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.