Nozawa Now: Wednesday 11th January 2017
- Jan 11, 2017
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 23cm
Snowfall at base this season 195cm
Posted on Wednesday 11th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Lovely day yesterday. The sun was out and blue skies. Conditions at Yamabiko were very nice.
Good news this morning from Nozawa as our big week (hopefully) continues as we approach the highlight which should be this weekend.
This morning there's an impressive chunk of snow up top - 45cm being reported by the resort from the top Yamabiko area! - and 25cm being reported across the mountain. My measurement this morning was 23cm. So there's a very nice new cover across the resort and we're expecting more... a lot more... between now and Monday. The heaviest snow is still forecast for Friday night and through the weekend.
Very excited about this. Let's see how much I have to report tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, I'm going to wrap up well and head up to that snow... some more courses open now (check the data below).
Lifts operations:
All lifts appear to be operating except for:
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
Most courses at Nozawa Onsen are now open. Courses not open are:
- Kurokura
- Hachiman
- Mukobayashi
- Kandahar East
- Kandahar West
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 180cm
- Uenotaira: 140cm
- Hikage: 65cm
- Nagasaka: 60cm
- Karasawa: 40cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 45cm
- Uenotaira: 25cm
- Hikage: 25cm
- Nagasaka: 25cm
- Karasawa: 25cm
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Wednesday 11th January 2017 Total snowfall at base 195cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 42cm (30th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 161cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 32cm reported on 4 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. 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.