Good morning from Hakuba.
The mountains have a lot of cloud hanging around, but there is quite a lot of blue sky over the village and sunshine is coming through my window right now. Looks like we might have a day or two of generally fine weather with relatively mild conditions before things change once again.
Encouraging signs of a drop in temps again and snowfall on various forecasts for the second part of the week, so it is going to be interesting to see how that all works out.
Ski areas were hoping to open this weekend. Right now they are in no position to be able to do that, but that can quickly change if we get some decent snowfall for a few days...
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Todays photos (below):
- Hakuba Happo-one (Usagidaira) - ABLE Hakuba Goryu (Alpsdaira) - Tsugaike
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Below are the planned opening dates for ski areas around Hakuba. All are of course subject to change and depend on snowfall.
30th November / 1st December weekend: ABLE Hakuba Goryu Hakuba 47 Winter Sports Park Hakuba Happo-one (Sunday 1st December) Tsugaike Mountain Resort
Friday 13th December 2024: Jigatake
Saturday 14th December 2024: Hakuba Cortina Hakuba Norikura Onsen Kashimayari
Friday 20th December 2024: Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field White Resort Hakuba Sanosaka
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Ski areas in Japan that are now open (and upcoming openings):
See above for planned opening dates