Good morning from Hakuba.

Fine day yesterday with lots of cloud hanging around but blue sky and sunshine at times as well, along with those warmer conditions.

Good news folks - it's snowing. There's no new cm of snow on the ground just yet here near Happo base, and resorts are reporting up to a few cm of fresh snow up there and I can see on the webcams that visibility is quite limited in places right now.

Hopefully it will be snowing through the day today and we'll get a new layer out there to play in... it is certainly colder this morning and feels more winter-like though it doesn't somehow quite feel like a blizzard is going to happen. But stranger things have happened though - especially this season - so I'll look forward to my next report.

The 'All Japan Ski Technique Championships' preliminary stage will apparently be held on today on the Panorama area of the Happo-one resort.

Until tomorrow!

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6 day forecast for Happo-one:

6 day snow and weather forecast for Happo-one

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Resort news as of 8:45am on Wednesday 9th March 2016 (where available, all subject to change due to weather conditions)

Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting up to 5cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses set to open this morning.
The Tree Riding Zone is closed due to poor conditions.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 190cm
Base: 85cm

Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0-1cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses open apart from Snow Diving and Adventure.
The Toomi area will be open until 9:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 251cm
Toomi: 125cm
Iimori: 65cm

Hakuba Happo-one:
All courses appear to be open.
The lower Nakiyama area is open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 180cm
Nakiyama: 40cm
Sakka: 20cm

Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 0-1cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses open apart from Itadaira Ridge, Itadaira Forest and Giant.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 8pm tonight (9pm on Saturdays).
Official snow depth:
Top: 140cm
Base: 85cm

Tsugaike Kogen:
All courses and areas are generally open.
Nighta at Karamatsu/Shirakaba on 12th/19th March.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring (no fixed date yet).
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 208cm
Maruyama: 50cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 60cm

Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Areas of Village Side that remain open - Sunny Valley, by1, by2, by3, Shinden connecting. Kometsuga and Paradise part open.
Parts of the Mountain Side that are closed - View A, View B, Kamo 4, Dangan, Sonezawa, Five Side.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 110cm
Lower: 35cm

Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Closed courses are Kamoshika, Highway, Snake and Expert.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Norikura.
Official snow depth:
85cm

Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
70cm