Happy 2014, Snow Japan readers! Here's to a great year of good snow conditions, weather it's groomed, powder, corn, bumps or whatever else slides your boards.

It's a bit grim out there, to be honest.

Wet snow with rain is falling right now at base; it should be light snow higher up. The New Year's Eve conversations were all about, "When is the big fall going to happen?" If the weather is as tricky as I have known it in previous years, it will start falling just about the time people have to start heading back to the big cities (actually, I'm just taunting the weather deities so they respond with snowy wrath).

The stuff that is falling at the moment is looking a bit whiter, so let's keep it positive, get out there and warm up the legs, and get ready for the deeper stuff to come.

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Official info:

Akakura Kanko:
145cm

Akakura Onsen:
60cm

Ikenotaira:
80cm

Myoko Suginohara:
170cm

Seki Onsen:
150cm

Myoko Ski Park:
100cm

Myoko Kyukamura Runrun
150cm

Madarao
120cm

Tangram Ski Circus
115cm