It was a fine day yesterday with just some thin cloud around and the sun out warming things up during the day.

There were some nice fun conditions to be found especially in the morning and more fresh than seemed to have been reported as well which was a nice surprise. The sun did warm things up by the afternoon though making for another spring-like feel to the day.

There has been another small amount of snow overnight and light snow is falling this morning. Temperature hovering around zero but hoping it'll stay around there and the snow will keep falling into tomorrow as the forecast tells us it might.

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You might have noticed the statistics that are now presented at the bottom of the report page here.

I have observed more snowfall here at base each month since December than in the same month last season.

Compared with some other regions, the Hakuba numbers aren't on the face of it quite as impressive. Obviously we don't get as much down at base as some other places. But as you can see on the page explaining the data, that's only part of the story of course - what with our significant vertical and often getting considerably more snowfall higher up than at base. And of course it says nothing about quality one way or the other. Unfortunately there's no fixed first-hand data to report each morning from those higher areas.

What's more important than comparing place to place probably is how the season is going compared with last season and in that respect so far the numbers are up.

Anyway let's hope for a good March!

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Official snow depth numbers and operations at time of writing on Sunday 1st March 2015. Subject to change during the day:

Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 1cm of new snowfall at Alps Daira; 3cm on lower areas.
All courses planned to be open (except Adventure Course).

- Alps Daira - 340cm
- Toomi - 170cm
- Iimori - 170cm

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Hakuba 47:
Reporting 3-5cm of new snowfall yesterday.
Tree Riding Zone is open.

- Upper - 350cm
- Lower - 170cm

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Happo-one:
Reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall.
Happo Banks The Snow Park is now open.

- Usagidaira - 320cm
- Nakiyama - 170cm
- Sakka - 170cm

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Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 2cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses open apart from Itadaira Ridge, Itadaira Forest and Giant.

- Upper - 430cm
- Lower - 260cm

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Tsugaike Kogen:
Uma-no-se course closed this morning.
Please note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens for spring season.

- Tsuga-no-mori - 380cm
- Maruyama - 200cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka - 215cm

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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting 0-5cm of fresh snowfall.

- Upper - 265cm
- Lower - 160cm

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Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All areas now open.

- 270cm

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Kashimayari:
All areas now open.

- 195cm

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Night skiing at resorts in the Hakuba area:

Hakuba Goryu:
Toomi area every day until 31st March. 6pm until 9:30pm.
Hakuba Happo-one:
Nakiyama area every day until mid March. 5pm until 9pm.
Hakuba Cortina:
Every day until 31st March. 5pm until 8pm.
Tsugaike Kogen:
Karamatsu-Shirakaba on February 28th; Saturdays in March. 6pm until 9pm.
Kashimayari:
Every day until 15th March. 4:30pm until 9:30pm.