Hakuba Now: Saturday 29th December 2018
- Dec 29, 2018
- 4 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 16cm
Snowfall at base this season 104cm
Posted on Saturday 29th December 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
I have been here working on trying to gather as much information as possible. Sometimes not as easy as you might think, especially at periods like this when snow is falling and resorts are opening more every day. Enough of the excuses!
OK so 16cm of fresh snow to report and the headline snowfall numbers from the resorts as follows:
Hakuba Goryu: 5-15cm (base-top)
Hakuba 47: 10-15cm (base-top)
Hakuba Cortina: 15+cm
Hakuba Iwatake: 10-20cm (base-top)
Hakuba Happo-one: 10cm (top of Gondola)
Light snow has been falling this morning and it is another cold start to the day with more snow due into tomorrow and then during the week too. If you want to see some sunshine Monday might see a break in the clouds.
In the meantime, we can get out to enjoy the current conditions.
Not all resorts are fully open yet, though I would hope that will soon happen. Further snow should see that happen. They 100% want to be 100% open for the New Year holidays - there are a lot of expectant powder hungry people around and will be more coming over the next few days.
Conditions on the mountain are very good - well, they certainly were over at Cortina yesterday! Oh yes.
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Hakuba Happo-one
- The lower courses at Happo-one are not open yet: use the Adam Gondola, Kokusai Number 1 pair or Sakka Kitaone quad lift to get back to base.
Operating lifts:
- Adam Gondola (get the gondola back down to base
- Alpen quad
- Usagidaira pair
- Riesen quad
- Panorama pair
- Kokusai number 1 pair
- Kokusai number 3 pair
- Kurobishi number 2 quad
- Skyline number 2 pair
- Sakka Kita One quad
- Kitaone Number 3 pair
Available courses:
- Usagidaira
- Kurobishi
- Panorama
- Skyline
- Riesen Slalom
- Kita-one 3
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 130cm
- Usagidaira: 90cm
- Nakiyama: 40cm
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Hakuba Goryu
- All top area open
- Toomi
- Soft Cream
- Powder Snow
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Alps Number 3 pair
- Alps Number 2/4 pair
- Toomi Sky Four quad lift
- Toomi Number 1 pair lift
- Toomi Number 2 pair lift
- Milky Four
- Number 1 high speed pair
- Number 6 pair
Available courses:
- All top area (apart from Champion Expert)
- Toomi
- Soft Cream
Official snow depth:
- Top: 135cm
- Toomi: 65cm
- Iimori: 50cm
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Hakuba 47
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Line AB
- Line C
- Line E
Available courses:
- All main courses now available
- Freedom, R6 Beginners Park and Tree Riding Zones not open yet
Official snow depth:
- Top: 135cm
- Base: 30cm
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Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- Most lifts now operating
Available courses:
- Tsuga-no-mori
- Han-kou
- Han-no-ki
- Sawa-one
- Shirakaba
- Upper Forest
- Lower Forest
- Maruyama
- Kane-no-naru-oka (part)
- Champion (part)
- Karamatsu
- Oya-no-hara (part)
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 130cm
- Han-no-ki: 130cm
- Maruyama: 40cm
- Shirakaba: 75cm
- Champion: 80cm
- Oya-no-hara: 65cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 50cm
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Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- All lifts operating
Available courses:
- Ikenota
- Ikenota Forest
- Hieda Forest
- Mt Hieda 1
- Mt Hieda 2
- Mt Hieda 3
- Itadaira
- Ipponmatsu
- Itadaira Forest
- Giant
- Itadaira One
- Rabbit
- Kamoshika
- Snake
- Warabi
Official snow depth:
- Top: 160cm
- Base: 15cm
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
- Part of Mountain Side open
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 3 Sen North
- 4 Sen East
- 5 Sen South
- View 2
Available courses:
- North
- East
- View C
- View D
Official snow depth:
- Mountain Side: 100cm
- Village Side: 40cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Official snow depth:
- 70cm
- All lifts apart from Number 7 and 10 operating and most courses open
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Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
Official snow depth:
- 70cm
- Most lifts operating and courses part open
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Hakuba Sanosaka
Official snow depth:
- Top: 60cm
- Base: 30cm
- All lifts operating
Hakuba Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Saturday 29th December 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 104cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (28th and 29th December) November 2018 snowfall 0cm December 2018 snowfall 104cm reported on 10 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.