After the excitement of snowy-ness of yesterday, the weather decides to bring us an all blue sky start to the day at Madarao.

How do you like the sound of 50-70cm of new snow this morning? Yep, thought so!

Lets be honest - yesterday was not good. It was misty, slushy, rainy and any other word you want to use ending with 'y' and having some slightly unpleasant undertones.

We have been greeted this morning by light rain and cloud.

Snow clouds moved in yesterday and this morning we have 10-15cm of fresh snow on the ground in Madarao.

Add a bit more fresh snow, some blue skies above and you get a very nice day to be out on the mountain.

Some decent snowfall to report this morning from Madarao with 25-30cm or so of fresh snow on the slopes.

Just about 1cm of snow to report this morning in Madarao, and rather wet snow is falling as I write this report.

The sun is out this morning with blue skies and wispy clouds above Madarao Kogen.

We have woken this morning to light rain and misty conditions.

Greetings to everyone from Madarao. Today is the first day for the 2012/13 season and there is plenty of early season snow.

The season starts proper tomorrow! After last weekend we have seen more snow early on in the week and finer conditions in the last few - the sun has been out today - but from tomorrow Madarao Kogen opens for the season.

Snow is falling, though Madarao will be closed from today and then re-opening for the proper official opening of the season on Saturday 15th December.

The Number 1 lift was moving for the first time this season yesterday and more of the same today, with 10+cm of fresh snow to report as well.