Nozawa Now: Saturday 17th December 2016
- Dec 17, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 77cm
Posted on Saturday 17th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa and more things going on this morning.
First of all, fresh snow. By mid afternoon yesterday, the resort was reporting 10-15cm of fresh on the mountain and this morning and other 5cm or so on the upper slopes, so there should be up to 20cm of fresh up there to play in.
And there's more of the resort opening this morning too with more lifts and courses available. And the Snow Park too up there on Uenotaira (though as of yesterday just a 4m rail and mini kicker to be played with).
It's the 'Grand Opening' today as well as I mentioned in a previous report, with an event being held near the top Nagasaka Gondola station from 11am.
While it's feeling good and wintery just at the moment there's a spell of clearer and milder conditions ahead of us. Let's hope the forecast on that score changes as we could of course be doing with more snow to build on what we have rather than a mild spell.
In the meantime though, today should be a lot of fun. I'm off up to meet Nasuki, and perhaps even enjoy some jan-ken with him.
Lifts that are planned to be operating:
All lifts now operating except for:
- Kandahar pair
- Hikage Four
- Nagasaka Quad
- Nagasaka pair
- Karasawa pair
Courses that are planned to be open:
- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Kokenashi course
- Uenotaira course
- Paradise course
- Bunabayashi course
- Yunomine B course
- Rinkan course
- Nagasaka link
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 115cm
- Uenotaira: 90cm
- Hikage: 55cm
- Nagasaka: 45cm
- Karasawa: 40cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning
- Yamabiko: 20cm
- Uenotaira: 15cm
- Hikage: 12cm
- Nagasaka: 12cm
- Karasawa: 10cm
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Data as of Saturday 17th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 77cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (11th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 75cm 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 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.