The weather was true to its word with falls right through to around 10pm last night. The powder was really light and dry so we had a great day on the slopes.

It is snowing heavily this morning and there is 7cm accumulation in the village.

With continuing snowfall, Furano Now is starting to wonder if it will ever stop snowing.

There has been at least 20cm of new snow fall in the village since yesterday and it is still forecast to snow through until Saturday morning.

Happy New Year from Furano Now, and what better way to start 2014 than get out on the mountain and carve some turns on the immaculately groomed slopes.