More brown than white on the bottom slopes of Naeba now as the snow from a few weeks ago continues to disappear. After a generally fine weekend it is much more cloudy this morning but mild once more at +5 early on.

Lifts moving this week as things stand at the moment are the No 5 high speed lift, the Takenokodaira Romance lift and the Prince No 2 Gondola.

Courses open at the run in front of the hotel and the Takenokodaira Gelende. The connecting run down the mountain is now closed (so you'll need to get the Gondola back down from up top).

As soon as more snow falls the resort will happily be opening up more areas.

Kagura still has a fair amount of snow, officially still at 130cm. With no real new snow since that big fall conditions are obviously not as good as they were, but still for the first runs of the season there is fun to be had!

It is looking likely that we'll get more snow in the next few days.