Yuzawa Now: Thursday 8th December 2016
- Dec 8, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 4cm
Posted on Thursday 8th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Yuzawa and I can see fresh snow. Just a bit here around town with Kagura reporting up to 20cm of fresh snowfall.
Going back to yesterday - the clouds cleared up leaving us with a beautiful day with lots of blue sky and sunshine too.
It was snowing when I got up early this morning but it's turned into a rather wet sleet at the moment, and it is raining just out of Yuzawa in Minamiuonuma. Currently 3C in town.
The big news of the morning is that Kagura have announced that Tashiro will open as planned on Saturday and that all courses at Kagura will be opening as well. Currently there is apparently 50cm of snow at Tashiro with 15-20cm of that coming overnight. The main Kagura area has had about 20cm and the Mitsumata area about 10cm. Not bad going - they do try to get things open just as quickly as possible. It's still not normal season deep yet of course, but with all of it being open there'll be plenty of choice. And no doubt it will be busy too with other resorts not being able to open yet...
Naeba is also of course set to open on Saturday and they have the artificial snow run at base to rely on, irrespective of how much natural snow there is.
Iwappara and Joetsu Kokusai are already on stand-by to open and Maiko Snow Resort will be joining them from Saturday. I think they'll need to be on standby a little longer. Snow looks likely over the weekend though, so fingers-crossed...
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What is planned to be open today at Kagura:
Open courses are:
- Kagura main course
- Technical course
- Giant course
- Gondola course
- Panorama course
- Family course (Mitsumata)
Operating lifts are:
- Mitsumata Ropeway
- Mitsumata Number 1 quad
- Mitsumata Number 2 romance pair
- Kagura Gondola
- Kagura Number 1 quad lift
- Kagura Number 4 romance pair
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Ski resorts currently open:
Kagura - open courses as noted above, access via Mitsumata Ropeway
Planned opening dates for resorts in Yuzawa Town and Minamiuonuma City (by date):
As soon as there is enough snow:
Iwappara
Joetsu Kokusai
Saturday 10th December:
Kagura (Tashiro)
Maiko Snow Resort
Naeba
Friday 16th December:
Muica Snow Resort
Yuzawa Park
Saturday 17th December:
GALA Yuzawa
Ipponsugi
Kandatsu Kogen
Ludens Yuzawa
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Nakazato Snow Wood
Yuzawa Kogen
Yuzawa Nakazato
Wednesday 21st December:
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Thursday 22nd December:
NASPA Ski Garden
Friday 23rd December:
Chateaux Shiozawa
Ipponsugi
Itsukamachi
Saturday 24th December:
Hakkai Sanroku
Mt Granview
Wednesday 28thy December:
Ishiuchi Hanaoka
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Data as of Thursday 8th December 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 4cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 3 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 2cm (24th November) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Yuzawa. 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.