Good morning from a fine and sunny Hakuba. It's a comfortable and warm 20 degrees or so as we approach noon.

From yesterday of course we are down to just the Gondola and Alps Number 1 pair lift open at Hakuba Goryu - they have just the top Panorama course open now and of course you need to get the Gondola back down. If you are interested in that final slide up there, it's 2400 yen for an adult and 1250 yen for (elementary school age) children. Open until 4pm on Sunday is the plan.

The latest forecasts shows the chance of rain falling tomorrow and cooler conditions, but we should be back to sunny skies for the weekend.

I'll post a season wrap-up early in the week to finish things off. In the meantime have a fun weekend.

(Take a look at the webcam image from Happo-one below... cars!)