More sun this morning and clearer skies... it's a beautiful spring morning in Nozawa and not much else to report other than once I post this report I will be out there destination Yamabiko! There's hardly anyone around to enjoy it as well - where are you?! We have seen the last of the powder days, but there's still a ton of fun to be had and lots of snow too.... Yamabiko still reading over 3m of the stuff.

We will probably see a high temp. of about 11 degrees today in the village. Currently the forecast for tomorrow is just cloud and a similar temp. After that sun again for Saturday along with perhaps the warmest day of the year so far.

Current Official Snow Depths Numbers:

Yamabiko:
305cm

Uenotaira:
265cm

* Readings by the resort from lower slopes now seem to have finished - though there's still generally plenty.

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Current Lift operations (scheduled):
Nagasaka Gondola
Yamabiko Four
Yamabiko Four No2
Skyline Link

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Main courses open (scheduled):
Yamabiko A
Yamabiko C
Yamabiko D
Yamabiko E
Skyline (upper half) - go to base via Kamoshika and Karasawa
Uenotaira
Paradise
Schneider
Utopia courses
Yunomine A, B
Challenge
Bunabayashi
Rinkan

The above are subject to change.