Nozawa Now: Sunday 26th December 2021
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 34cm
Snowfall at base this season 114cm
Posted on Sunday 26th December 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Yes, we have a whole lot of snow around this morning, it's still coming down and there's lots more due through tomorrow.
The ski area is this morning reporting 20-45cm across the mountain. (Apologies that I was not able to check their number yesterday afternoon; was just a bit down at base).
Bring it on!
Visibility very limited, so extra care very much advised in all these fresh conditions.
Looking at the course map, there are a few parts of the mountain that are not yet open, the main one being Skyline and a few areas in the central part. But a large part of Nozawa is now open - and there's plenty of choice to enjoy this beautiful snow.
Information checked each morning. All subject to change.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (since yesterday afternoon):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 45cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 45cm
- Hikage (660m): 30cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 30cm
- Karasawa (563m): 20cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 150cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 145cm
- Hikage (660m): 30cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 20cm
- Karasawa (563m): 20cm
Planned operating lifts:
- Nagasaka Gondola
- Hikage Gondola
- Yamabiko Four lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four lift
- Uenotaira quad
- Paradise quad
- Skyline connecting lift
- Hikage triple lift
- Hikage four lift
- Nagasaka triple lift
- Nagasaka four lift
- Yu Road
- Nagasaka gondola connecting pair
Courses currently open:
- Yamabiko A
- Yamabiko B
- Yamabiko C
- Yamabiko D
- Yamabiko E
- Uenotaira
- Kokenashi A/B
- Paradise
- Yunomine B
- Mizunashi B
- Bunabayashi
- Rinkan / Forest
- Ushikubi
- Schneider (upper part)
- Challenge
- Utopia A
- Hikage Wall
- Isemiya
- Nagasaka connecting
- Kumataka
- Kitsune
- Hikage
- Nagasaka
Nozawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Sunday 26th December 2021 Total snowfall at base 114cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (18th and 26th December) November 2021 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 99cm 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.