Morning from Nozawa and the snowfall I have to report this morning is similar to yesterday ranging from a dusting on lower slopes to 5cm on upper slopes.

I so miss being able to often report 30cm of fresh dumpage in the village, and I still optimistically hope we'll get to some of that this season - though some locals are more of the 'this is how the season will be' kind of thinking now.

So I'm getting excited about what is on the forecast. After some light snow today/tonight perhaps, it's heavy snow forecast tomorrow night (well on some forecasts anyway). Monday is scheduled currently to be clearer and sunny and that to be followed by a return to snowy conditions and the chance of another decent dump.

Fingers crossed everyone.

Just now there's a lot of fog up top (possibly light snow? - the resort was reporting light snow up there as of 7:30am), making visibility limited in some places. Better in others and maybe it'll clear up this morning.

It's going to be a busy weekend. Let's hope there's lots of fresh snow to play in come Sunday morning.

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Official info at time of writing on Friday 5th February 2016 (subject to change):

Official snow depths:

Yamabiko: 165cm
Uenotaira: 130cm
Hikage: 75cm
Nagasaka: 60cm
Karasawa: 55cm

New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:

Yamabiko: 5cm
Uenotaira: 3cm
Hikage: 1cm
Nagasaka: 1cm
Karasawa: 0cm

All weekday lifts planned to be operating. Lifts rested are:

- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Hikage Number 2 pair B line

The following courses are not currently open:

- Paradise connection
- Challenge 39
- Grand Prix
- Hachiman
- Mukoubayashi
- Kandahar West
- Kandahar East

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Nozawa Onsen 6 day weather and snow forecast

Nozawa Onsen main resort data