Good morning from here near Hirafu base, and this morning it is much the same as yesterday really.

I have 4cm of fresh overnight snow to report to you this morning.

I had a very good day yesterday and during 'lift time' on my 4 hours worth of adventure I spoke to people from China, US, UK, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand which was fun.

There's more fresh snowfall to report this morning.

This is what I like to see. 15cm measured by myself just a short while ago

It is nice and cold and I measured 19cm of fresh snow here at base. Good quality stuff too.

It's the last morning of the month and I am very pleased to be able to report 14cm of fresh snowfall on the ground here at base.

First of all, Happy (Chinese) New Year! Here's to a good one for all.

Good morning to you all. The days keep on rolling on don't they - not much more of January left! Yikes.

Anyway, fine blue skies early on in the day with clouds moving in late morning and then snow starting to fall.

Ah, the calm after the storm.

Snow started falling yesterday and this morning there's a layer of fresh snow on the ground here at base. Hurray!

Good morning from Niseko and a bit of a nice surprise with just over 9cm of lovely fresh snowfall to report to you.

Just slightly over 1cm of fresh snow at my measuring point this morning but I notice the report below is mentioning 10cm of fresh at Niseko base.