Hakuba Now: Thursday 20th December 2018
- Dec 20, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 64cm
Posted on Thursday 20th December 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba, and a good one it is. Cloudy for the moment (with even a bit of sun trying to break through in places), but more importantly.. snow news!
Lots of fresh snowfall to report this morning. And as always, I bring to you the amounts of fresh snowfall being reported by the resorts around Hakuba and here they are:
Hakuba Happo-one: 40cm (top of Gondola)
Hakuba Goryu: 10cm (base), 20cm (top)
Hakuba 47: 15cm (base), 30cm (top)
Hakuba Cortina: 15cm (base-top)
Hakuba Iwatake: 5cm (Village Side), 20cm (Mountain Side)
Top prize to Happo!
There's a good 15cm on the ground for me to add to my measurements as well.
So conditions out there should be pretty good this morning and I expect (and hope) that we might gradually be seeing more lifts and terrain get open too.
Looks like Happo-one have opened up Kurobishi from this morning and the official site shows nothing yet moving at Tsugaike for some reason (wind?).
Hakuba 47 are now also declaring themselves 'all courses open'
Hakuba Iwatake have announced that they will open from tomorrow (Friday). They plan to have the North and East areas open with the Number 3 and 4 line lifts operating.
Hakuba Sanosaka were hoping to open from tomorrow but they seem to have delayed that, waiting for more snow.
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- Adam Gondola
- Riesen quad
Available courses:
- Usagidaira
- Kurobisho
- Panorama
- Riesen Slalom course
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: -cm
- Usagidaira: 110cm
- Lower: 10cm (?)
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Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Toomi Sky Four quad lift
- Toomi Number 1 pair lift
Available courses:
- Panorama
- Toomi
Official snow depth:
- Top: 85cm
- Toomi: 50cm
- Iimori: -cm
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Hakuba 47
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Line AB
- Line C
- Line E
Available courses:
- All courses now available, top to base skiing possible
Official snow depth:
- Top: 120cm
- Base: 35cm
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Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- Eve Gondola
- Han-no-ki high speed lift
Available courses:
- Han-kou
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 116cm
- Han-no-ki: 116cm
- Maruyama: -cm
- Shirakaba: -cm
- Champion: -cm
- Oya-no-hara: -cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: -cm
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Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- Number 2 quad lift
- Number 4 pair lift
Available courses:
- Ikenota
- Hieda Forest
- Mt Hieda 1
- Itadaira
Official snow depth:
- Top: 125cm
- Base: 75cm
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Operating lifts:
- Gondola --- but it's for sightseeing, not skiing/boarding
Official snow depth:
- Top: 15cm
- Base: 15cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Operating lifts:
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Alps Number 4 pair
Official snow depth:
- 100cm
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Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
Operating lifts:
- Number 2 pair lift
- Number 6 quad lift (for transportation)
Available courses:
- Course 2
Official snow depth:
- 55cm
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Hakuba Sanosaka
- Delayed opening
Hakuba Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Thursday 20th December 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 64cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 15cm (20th December) November 2018 snowfall 0cm December 2018 snowfall 64cm reported on 7 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.