More new snow in Hakuba this morning with resorts around the village reporting up to 25cm of fresh snow on the upper slopes, and about 5cm or so down lower at village level early on. It has been snowing all morning and looks like it is going down good now on the upper slopes, and as forecast it is still looking promising for heavy snow tonight and decent snowfall over the next few days in Hakuba and Otari as well.

It's keeping cold as well now which is more good news. -5 overnight in the village and it hasn't really moved much during the day keeping cold at about -4 degrees currently. Not too strong a wind either at the moment.

So, lots of snow on it's way over the next few days. Visibility out on the slopes is generally not good, but as time goes on more fluffy snow out there to enjoy. Hopefully good news of big snow in the report tomorrow, and it looks like the coming weekend will be a good one to be on the mountains.

Official snow depths and operations @ Wednesday 25th January 2012 AM:

Hakuba Goryu:
15cm fresh up top and 5cm below as of this morning Goryu. All weekday lifts operating.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 220cm;
Toomi - 100cm;
Iimori - 90cm.

Hakuba 47:
25cm of fresh snow reported at 47 this morning. All weekday courses and lifts open/operating.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 203cm
Lower - 100cm

Happo-one:
Ski lifts/courses:
All lifts apart from Usagidaira pair, Happo No1 pair, Central pair and Kita One No3 pair operating.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira/Kurobishi - 150cm;
Sakka - 80cm;
Nakiyama - 80cm.

Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 245cm
Champion - 160cm

Hakuba Cortina:
Another 20cm of snow reported at Cortina this morning. Normal operations today, all courses open.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 285cm
Lower - 180cm

Hakuba Norikura:
Official snow depth:
175cm

Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper - 130cm
Lower - 65cm

Hakuba Sanosaka:
95cm

Hakuba Minekata:
60cm