Welcome to Spring Skiing, according to the official announcement from the Prince Resort.

Official Bluebird Declaration!!

Well, the faithful who remained until the end of the Kitanomine season have been rewarded with 10-15 cm of fresh snow overnight.

Spring skiing conditions today, but not sunny.

Today: Cloudy, spring day. A little wafting snow. Just enough to make you pine for the deep days of winter.

Kind of a windy, gray day.

Yeah, the wind is gone. It's even partly sunny today! Yeah!

Pretty much the same conditions as yesterday, but it's not snowing. Bit of new snow overnight, but it's just snow, not powder.

Well, well, well. You know the old saying: Be careful what you wish for.

It's thermal inversion time! Colder at the base than at the summit. You don't see that every day.

Windy and rainy all night last night. This morning, it was 80+ km/h up on top, so the Gondola is of course closed.

Windy and rainy all night last night.

The wind has gone, thankfully. Got a bit of snow overnight, just a small dusting of 3 cm, but potentially up to 10 cm on top.

A nice little dusting of fresh overnight. Still keeping quite cold on top, so the snow is still nice up there.