Hakuba Now: Sunday 9th February 2020
- Feb 9, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 14cm
Snowfall at base this season 134cm
Posted on Sunday 9th February 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
More snow to report this morning with Happo, 47 and Goryu all reporting 20-25cm of fresh snow on their upper areas.
Check out the numbers that Cortina are reporting though... 60cm! That sure sounds good. (Though quite a few courses over there are closed at the start of the day as they apparently deal with the snow). Tsugaike Kogen are also reporting 45cm of snow up there so it does sound like there has been a lot of fresh over there.
Great news.
With a decent layer of snow across the mountains conditions should be excellent this morning, though wind might a factor (and meaning there'll be wind blow stashes in places).
At Happo-one, you can now ski back down to the Gondola base via Riesen as the Shirakaba South Side course area is now open. Hurray! And the top Grat quad is on hold. Booo!
Good to see the upper official snow depths at Hakuba Goryu, 47 and Tsugaike hit the 2m mark.
There's some blue sky appearing in places amongst the clouds right now.
It should be a very good day.
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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
- Kokusai
- Nakiyama Wall/North
- Shirakaba South/North
- Kurobishi Off-Piste
- The base Nakiyama South and Shirakaba South areas are open
- The base Sakka areas are part open
- Otherwise, take the Gondola or other lifts back down to base
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 220cm
- Usagidaira: 150cm
- Nakiyama: 50cm
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 are part open
Official snow depth:
- Top: 200cm
- Base: 75cm
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: 210cm
- Toomi: 75cm
- Iimori: 60cm
Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Han-no-ki Number 4
- Tsuga Number 1 pair
- Han-no-ki Number 2 pair
- Tsugaike Ropeway
Courses open:
- Most course areas are now at least part open; lower slopes part open
- 'Lower course through the forest' is closed
- DBD: Gate 1 is open
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 205cm
- Maruyama: 60cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 95cm
Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- All lifts are operating
Courses open:
- All courses open
Official snow depth:
- Top: 210cm
- Base: 120cm
Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- All lifts apart from Number 8 are operating
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
- All lifts apart from Number 7 are operating
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4sen East
- 3sen North
- View2
- 5sen South
- Paradise
Open courses:
- 5 courses open on the Mountain Side
- 3 courses open in Village Side
Hakuba Sanosaka
- All lifts are operating
Hakuba Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Sunday 9th February 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 134cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 25 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 32cm reported on 3 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.