Hakuba Now: Thursday 27th February 2020
- Feb 27, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 6cm
Snowfall at base this season 175cm
Posted on Thursday 27th February 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
More good news this morning with additional fresh snow to report.
Headlines: Cortina reporting 20-30cm across their slopes; Happo, Goryu and 47 reporting 5-10cm at base and 15+cm higher up.
Nice.
Great to see more down to base and some bigger numbers higher up.
Should be fun up there.
Visibility is limited on mountain this morning (it was actually a little clearer when I first got up with a hint of blue sky in places) and we are likely to have some more snow during the day particularly at higher elevations.
As I write this though it is snowing. Yey!
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Nakiyama Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba Number 1 pair
- Shirakaba Number 2 pair
- Central pair
- Sakka Number 2 pair
- Sakka Number 3 triple
Courses open:
- All courses apart from the following are at least part open:
- Central
- Olympic II
- Kita-one
- Kokusai
- Nakiyama Wall/North
- Shirakaba North
- Sakka
- Nakiyama South and Shirakaba South base areas are open; others closed
- You can also take the Gondola or other lifts back down to base
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 230cm
- Usagidaira: 160cm
- Nakiyama: 70cm
Hakuba 47
All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Pair Line D (usually only operates when Gondola not operating)
Courses open:
- All main courses now open
- Tree Riding Zones: upper area part open
Official snow depth:
- Top: 195cm
- Base: 70cm
Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- All lifts are normally operating
Courses open:
- All courses are open now apart from the following:
- Cosmo River
- Straight Whiskey
- Snow Diving
- Adventure
Official snow depth:
- Alps: 195cm
- Toomi: 70cm
- Iimori: 55cm
Tsugaike Kogen
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 214cm
- Maruyama: 50cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 38cm
- All courses apart from Lower Forest are open (lower Kane-no-naru part open)
- Some restrictions on lower courses
- DBD gates: Gates 1, 2 and 3 open and reporting 15cm of fresh snow
Hakuba Cortina
Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 170cm
- Base: 80cm
- Most courses open
Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 100cm
- Most courses open
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 85cm
- Most courses open
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 125cm
- Part open
Hakuba Sanosaka
Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 65cm
- All courses open
Jigatake
- Top: 10cm
- Closed
Hakuba Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Thursday 27th February 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 175cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 31 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 28cm reported on 8 days January 2020 snowfall 70cm reported on 13 days February 2020 snowfall 73cm reported on 9 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.