Good morning from Hakuba.

Yesterday was a bit of a wild one. Heavy rain and strong winds... and then, snow. Up on the mountains anyway.

Happo-one (which had to close yesterday due to conditions) reporting 10-12cm of fresh snowfall on upper slopes.
Hakuba 47 are reporting 15cm on their social media yesterday afternoon, and 5cm on their official site. (15cm yesterday and 5cm overnight?). Take your pick.
Tsugaike Kogen has even upped it's upper snow depth number by over 20cm this morning. (!!)

That is great to report. (Note: none down to village).

I feel the need to confirm this with my own eyes and while I really wanted to play around with spreadsheets and fill our some tax forms, I think I will go and do that instead.

It's calmer this morning. Lots of blue sky and some cloud this morning. Forecasts for the week ahead show lots of clear conditions this week with temperatures gradually rising back up to approaching 20C by the end of the week.

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Individual ski area data: Monday 19th April 2021
The below information is checked from official sources and manually adjusted each morning.
Bit early this morning so some information not update

Hakuba Happo-one

Operating lifts (planned):
- Grat quad
- Alpen quad
- Adam Gondola
- Panorama pair
- Kurobishi Number 2 quad
- Skyline Number 2 pair

Open courses (planned):
- Riesen Grat
- Kurobishi
- Usagidaira
- Skyline
- Upper Urakuro
- Panorama
- Kokusai Number 1 lift (only open weekends and 29th April through 5th May)
- Base runs all closed - you need to get the Gondola back down to base

Reported snowfall:
- Kurobishi: 10cm
- Usagidaira: 12cm
- Nakiyama: 0cm

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 160cm
- Usagidaira: 120cm
- Nakiyama: 0cm

Planned closing date:
- Wednesday 5th May

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Hakuba 47

Operating lifts (planned):
- Gondola
- Line AB pair
- Line C quad
- Line E pair

Open courses (planned):
- All main courses remain open
- A short walk is required on parts of R-7
- Beginners are advised to get the Gondola back down to base

Reported snowfall:
- Summit: 5cm (overnight? unclear)
- Base: 0cm

Official snow depth:
- Top: 120cm
- Base: 25cm

Planned closing date:
- Wednesday 5th May

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Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts (planned):
- Planned operating lifts:
- Goryu Telecabin (gondola)
- Alps Number 1 pair
- Alps Number 3 pair
- Alps Number 2/4 pair (only open weekends & Golden Week)

Open courses (planned):
- Panorama
- Grand Prix
- Technical
- Super
- Base runs all closed - you need to get the Gondola back down to base

Reported snowfall:
- Upper: 10cm
- Iimori: 0cm

Official snow depth:
- Upper: 150cm
- Iimori: 0cm

Planned closing date:
- Wednesday 5th May

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Tsugaike Kogen

Operating lifts (planned):
- Gondola
- Han-no-ki pair
- Tsuga Number 2 pair

Open courses (planned):
- Tsuga-no-mori
- Han-no-ki
- Base runs all closed - you need to get the Gondola back down to base

Reported snowfall:
- Summit: 25cm (!!)

Official snow depth:
- Top: 161cm
- Base: 0cm

Planned closing date:
- Wednesday 5th May


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Other ski areas in the region are now closed


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Total snowfall accumulation on upper areas:

The 'total snowfall accumulation' data shown in the table is the total amount of snowfall that the ski areas have themselves reported from the upper areas of their resort since the beginning of the season. We manually check and update this official data just before we publish each Hakuba Now report. Any odd-looking numbers are due to the source data. We have no control over the data. Just to be extra clear, unlike our own ‘observed snowfall’ data from base that we show at the top of each report, the data in the table is not an independent observation by SnowJapan.


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Photos (below):

- Hakuba Goryu
- Hakuba Iwatake
- Hakuba Goryu