Hello and good morning from Hakuba.

I am very happy to report that we are on a bit of a roll at the moment. I'll name it a 'relative roll' (because it's not like a full-on total dumpage kind of roll).

Mmmmmm, rolls!

OK back to being serious. Resorts are reporting another 10-15cm of fresh snowfall on our beloved mountains and it has been a beautiful early morning. Oh yes, I have an observed 5cm to add to my report from base.

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	10cm	10cm	246cm
Hakuba Cortina	5cm	15cm	188cm
Hakuba Goryu	5cm	10cm	249cm
Hakuba Happo-one	10cm	15cm	310cm
Tsugaike Kogen		?cm	125cm (?)
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

Early on there is a lot of cloud, gas around as well as blue skies making for varying views depending on where you are. Quite dramatic in places.

Whether cloud will remain or it will clear up... well, we'll just have to see.

The forecast for tomorrow is looking good for snow. Let's expecting!

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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: 175cm
- Usagidaira: 125cm
- Nakiyama: 40cm

Hakuba 47

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

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

Official snow depth:
- Top: 130cm
- Base: 45cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Toomi Number 2 pair
- Cosmo Four

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

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 130cm
- 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
- Han-no-ki Number 1 quad
- Champion quad
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner I
- 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: 140cm
- Maruyama: 40cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 20cm

Hakuba Cortina

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 6

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

Official snow depth:
- Top: 115cm
- Base: 55cm

Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- All lifts are operating

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