Hello and good morning from Nozawa on this Monday morning.

There is a lot of cloud around this morning and while it isn't just yet, rain is forecast along with a high temperature of around 5C later on. We are still hoping for the chance of snow falling overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning and more snow might be falling around Thursday on the mountain. Whether we'll get snow down to base is another matter, we'll just have to see.

With Nozawa hoping to be able to open until 6th May, that means we have another 7 weeks left to go.

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Monday 19th March 2018

Fresh snowfall since yesterday (as 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): 260cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 180cm
- Hikage (660m): 120cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 115cm
- Karasawa (563m): 65cm

Lifts operations:

- All lifts should be open as planned this morning
- The Yunomine pair, Mizunashi triple, Challenge pair and Utopia pair lifts usually rested on weekdays.

The following courses either closed (or not fully available):

- Grand Prix
- Hachiman
- Kandahar