Good news from Hakuba this morning.

After a cloudy day yesterday with some light snow on the mountains yesterday (in places/at times), here's the headlines this morning:

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	10cm	15cm	211cm
Hakuba Cortina	10cm	20cm	168cm
Hakuba Goryu	5cm	15cm	234cm
Hakuba Happo-one	10cm	25cm	285cm
Tsugaike Kogen		?cm	125cm
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

...and I am measuring 8cm both in my usual spot and over at the base of Hakuba 47 just before.

It might not be the lightest and fluffiest variety of snow - it's a bit heavy and wet down here at base.

I noted that Hakuba Happo-one are themselves proclaiming 'powder snow' at top of the Riesen quad as of 2 hours ago.

So yes it is great to see 15-25cm of fresh snowfall on the upper mountain areas this morning. And I'll leave it at that for today. I am excited to head up to the higher slopes once I get this report posted.

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Hakuba Happo-one

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Kurobishi Number 3 pair
- Nakiyama Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba Number 1 pair
- Shirakaba Number 2 pair
- Central pair
- Sakka Number 2 pair
- Sakka Number 3 triple

Courses open:
- Panorama
- Usagidaira
- Kurobishi
- Skyline
- Riesen Slalom
- Kita-one 3
- Nakiyama South also part open so you can ski/board back to base over on that side area
- Otherwise, take lifts back down to base

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 165cm
- Usagidaira: 115cm
- Nakiyama: 35cm

Hakuba 47

Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- Line A B pair lift
- Line C quad lift
- Line E pair lift

Courses open:
- All main courses now open
- Tree Riding Zones not yet available

Official snow depth:
- Top: 120cm
- Base: 40cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Cosmo Four

Courses open:
- Panorama
- Grand Prix
- Technical
- Super
- Champion Dynamic
- Champion Expert
- Woody
- Toomi
- Soft Cream
- Merry Land

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 125cm
- Toomi: 65cm
- Iimori: 45cm

Tsugaike Kogen

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Han-no-ki Number 4
- Tsuga-no-mori Number 1
- Han-no-ki Number 2 pair
- Champion quad
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner I

Courses open:
- Most course areas are now at least part open
- DBD not available yet

Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 130cm
- Maruyama: 30cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 12cm

Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- All lifts are operating

Hakuba Cortina

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 6

Operating courses:
- Some courses restrictions (Giant, Rabbit, Snake, Kamoshika are closed)

Official snow depth:
- Top: 100cm
- Base: 50cm

Hakuba Norikura Onsen

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 7 and 10 are operating

Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field

Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4sen East
- 4sen North
- View2
- 5sen South

Hakuba Sanosaka

Operating lifts:
- All 4 lifts are operating

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Photos today (below):

- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Goryu [base area]
- Hakuba 47
- Tsugaike Kogen [lower Kane-no-naru-oka area]
- Hakuba Iwatake
- Looking towards Hakuba Iwatake and Hakuba Happo-one

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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