Here we are, the last day of the season for the resorts... and the snow held out to the very end!

A nicer day ahead as we're getting ready for the weekend.

It's post-main-season time, but we got snow overnight, so I have to get the few cms up on the total!

Spring is really being shy this year. No complaints!

Snow is still falling in Myoko, even as some of the areas are closing.

Snow continued through most of the day yesterday in Myoko; not a whole lot of new fresh at the end of the day.

Real snow this morning. Enough to make it pretty fun out there.

It's sunny with a little cover of fresh, which we will very generously call 1cm.

Happily (once again) the rain turned to snow; once again the Niigata snow report is right on the money at 6cm.

Sunny again today, but with the high haze/thin clouds we often see on sunny days.

Very light snow is falling, and the sun is intermittently shining.

That nice weather yesterday did indeed turn to snow later in the day. Just as the Niigata Prefecture forecast called it, we got about 15cm of pretty wet snow, but nice all the same.

Powder! Yes, that March snow has come again, just when a lot of people have left the country (and the Japanese start getting distracted by the cherry blossoms starting to come up from the south and west. It's not spring yet!).

The official snow report from Niigata has regained our trust and support today.