January 2012

Base up top: 280 cm                  Temperature; -3 Degrees Base at bottom; 185 cm New Snow: 2 cm For the first time in a while we saw a few stars in Nozawa last night. It was a full moon too so with all the white snow everything looked really bright, was pretty nice. Woke up […]

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Base up top: 300 cm                  Temperature; -8 Degrees Base at bottom; 200 cm New Snow: 30 cm Wooo! We have dived into the 300cm mark in Nozawa Onsen officially today. Happened a little quicker than I thought as yet again last night we received close to 30cm on the slopes! It seems like a […]

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Base up top: 290 cm                  Temperature; -7 Degrees Base at bottom; 195 cm New Snow: 37 cm Snowed again in Nozawa for most of the night depositing another Magic Foot of fresh powder on the slopes for this morning. Still snowing in the village now and about another 10cm has accumulated since this morning. […]

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Nozawa Styling under all this Snow

by Mark on January 6, 2012

Base up top: 275 cm                  Temperature; -2 Degrees Base at bottom; 190 cm New Snow: 20 cm Apologies for the late snow report, I was not up getting mind blowing powder runs unfortunately. Instead was taking advantage of the break in the snow to clear our roof, still thrilling waist deep powder but nowhere […]

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Powder Party in Nozawa Onsen

by Mark on January 5, 2012

Base up top: 280 cm                  Temperature; -8 Degrees Base at bottom; 190 cm New Snow: 30 cm Has not stopped snowing in Nozawa now for 24 Hours. The magic foot we mentioned yesterday has doubled with 60cm falling in that time. We are going to have to start calling it the magic 2 foot! […]

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