Good morning from Nozawa.

It may not feel like it to us down here at base early on as we have lots of low lying cloud engulfing us, but it's going to be a fine day. A look at the upper webcams shows sunshine and lots of blue skies; once this early morning cloud clears up it will be sunny and fine for the day - and relatively mild again.

Forecast shows snow tomorrow and then early next week. Potentially decent snowfall too - that sounds good to me.

The Uenotaira lift and course area will be open from Saturday.

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Thursday 7th December 2017

Operating lifts:

- Nagasaka Gondola (8:40am until 3:30pm)
- Yamabiko four lift (9:00am until 3:30pm)
- Yamabiko Number 2 lift (8:55am until 3:40pm)
- * Need to get the gondola back down to base

Planned open courses:

- Yamabiko A - 1,300m
- Yamabiko B - 800m
- Yamabiko C - 850m
- Yamabiko D - 1,250m
- Yamabiko E - 1,000m
- Yunomine B
- Bunabayashi course - 2,500m

Fresh snowfall - reported by the resort:

- Yamabiko (1407m): 0cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 0cm
- Hikage (660m): 0cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 0cm
- Karasawa (563m): 0cm

Official snow depth numbers:

- Yamabiko (1407m): 65cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 55cm
- Hikage (660m): 10cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm
- Karasawa (563m): 5cm (there really is about that now!) ;)