A cold early morning actually this morning with temperatures down to around freezing here in the village. Quickly warming up again as we have another morning with no clouds and clear, blue skies all around.

Beautiful. A fine morning to be out on the mountains.

Temperatures nudging up towards 20 degrees at their highest over the next few days and the weather should be clear and fine for the weekend.

It was on the cards for a while but the (increasingly) narrow course that Goryu had been maintaining going back down to Gondola base on the lower Toomi area is now closed for the season... nature dictates, but they did well to keep it going until now. So now you need to get back down from the upper slopes via the Gondola. Still lots of snow up there though. Hakuba 47 is now the only skijo where you can slide back down to base.

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Official snow depth numbers and operations at resorts remaining open (as of 24th April 2014):

Hakuba Goryu:
Plans to be open until early May. Top area open, need to get gondola back down to base.
Upper - 150cm
Toomi - 0cm

Hakuba 47:
Plans to be open until early May. Almost all of Hakuba 47 remains open.
Upper - 135cm
Lower - 30cm

Happo-one:
Plans to be open until early May. Top areas (Riesen Grat, Usagidaira, Kurobishi, Panorama, Skyline) open. Need to get lift back down to base.
Usagidaira - 100cm

Tsugaike Kogen:
Plans to be open until early May. Upper areas remain open.
Tsuganomori - 188cm

All other resorts now closed for the season.