Time to close out the season.... which sort of petered out there at the end without me actually knowing when our last operating resort (Seki Onsen) finally gave up.

We're down to one running area (I think; can't tell from Seki's website or blog), so not only are we at the end of one phase, but one big change today.

No report from the town, as we enter really the last weekend of the season.

An early report today, because there's a race up on the hill and I will be sitting by a gate making sure everything is OK...

Nature has a way of surprising us, doesn't it?

Things are a bit nicer today than yesterday; there is still some fog (which looks to be clearing), and a light dusting of new snow, instead of the rain.

Woke up this morning to the sound of snow sliding off the roof. Snow!

Woke up to some fresh, if very wet, snow. It's still coming down, light but steady, although it's piling up as slush rather than snow at our location here (about 670 meters, just below Akakan).

Not a lot of fresh snow on the ground this morning, maybe three cm, but it is a nice day out there!

The morning was, to be nice, non-descript. It even rained a bit in the Arai area of town.

Not much snow overnight - I'll be generous and say we had 2cm - but it has started up again in the last few minutes.

The sun is out, mostly, this morning with a few flakes drifting down from time to time.

A great start to March, with 60cm of snow on the ground (hard to tell, really, as there was a lot of wind involved through the night).

The day started with high winds during the night, and moved into (ugh) rain earlier.