Good morning from Hakuba.

So after that big news yesterday, Tsugaike Kogen is also now closed and we are left with just Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Goryu remaining open in the area. Please check out yesterdays report if you missed it.

Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Goryu seem intent to continue as planned, for the moment anyway. I will let you know of any changes.

Hakuba 47 appears to be reporting a slight dusting of snow on the upper levels.

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	0cm	1cm	556cm
Hakuba Cortina [CLOSED]	-	-	573cm [at closing]
Hakuba Goryu	0cm	0cm	620cm
Hakuba Happo-one [CLOSED]	0cm	0cm	827cm [at closing]
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

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Individual ski resort information
The below information is checked from official sources and manually adjusted each morning.

Hakuba 47

All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are operating (planned):
- Pair Line D (usually only operates when Gondola not operating)

Courses open (planned):
- All main courses now open
- Restrictions on the winding lower course: beginners should take the gondola down

Official snow depth:
- Top: 165cm
- Base: 40cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts (planned):
- Gondola, top Alps Number 1 and 3 pair lifts are operating
- Other lifts are now closed

Courses open (planned):
- All of the upper area (apart from Champion Expert) is open
- The lower Toomi run is still open (just about)
- The lower Iimori area is now closed

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 170cm
- Toomi: 40cm
- Iimori: -cm

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Photos today (below):

- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba 47
- Tsugaike Kogen [upper Tsuganomori area]
- Tsugaike Kogen [lower Kane-no-naru-oka area]
- Hakuba Iwatake

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About the data in the above ‘snowfall as reported by ski resorts’ table
* The table within the above report contains data that is published by individual ski resorts
* The data shown is the amount of snowfall that the ski resorts are themselves reporting each 24 hour period on the upper areas of their mountain
* The source ‘new snowfall’ data and ‘total accumulation’ data is not updated at the same time
* The ‘new snowfall’ data is updated in the morning
* The ‘accumulation’ data is apparently updated/refreshed at midnight
* That means that there is a time lag between the two numbers being updated
* We manually check and update the data just before we publish each Hakuba Now report - so the data in each Hakuba Now report table is what is available at that time
* Any odd-looking numbers are due to the source data. We are not responsible for and have no control over the data. We are simply sharing the data with you
* Just to be extra clear, unlike our own ‘observed snowfall’ data from base that we show at the top of each report, the data in the table is not an independent observation by SnowJapan
* A more in-depth introduction and explanation can be found in this report