A Winters day

Strong winds, poor visibility and snowfall which is almost horizontal is what it is set to be all day. Kagura and Gala are both closed to due to the strong winds. The snow is set to remain till at least Saturday but depending on the weather could change to snow again after Saturday. This system is set to put another 20-30cm on the Yuzawa reorts and a little bit more at Kagura. I hope everyone can get out on the hill this weekend !

Great weekend

The continuous snowfall over the past week has amounted to a very good weekend across all the resorts. Everyone I talked to this weekend seemed to have a great time, arguably the best weekend of the season so far! Today and tomorrow look to be cloudy with a little snow but the snow will pick up again on Wednesday with another cold front coming through. It looks to be another good weekend next weekend as well.

Happy christmas !

Well we may not have had a lot of new snow but the conditions out on the hill are perfect. The difference this year from last year is that the tempratures keep really low, even with blue skies like yesterday the courses are keeping really fresh. It looks like the next new snow will be with us by the weekend which will help the lower resorts in the town. (We went on a tour of some other resorts Shiga Kogen and Nozawa, at this stage Kagura has the best conditions out of them all).

bottle bar opens today !

I woke up this morning to light snow outside my window but now its starting to fall quite heavily this is good news for GALA which is opening up today, its set to snow till at least Sunday. This Saturday also sees the Kagura / Mitsumata / Tashiro area becoming fully operational. They are definitely having a good start to this season. This Friday will also see the Bottle Bar opening up from 7:00pm. We hope to see you in there this season.

December skiing starts with blue skies

Snow enthusiasts are still enjoying the fantastic start to the season. They were out in force this Saturday taking advantage of the good conditions so of course, we had to join them. With blue skies in the morning the weather was playing its part too. The clouds started to come in during the afternoon and we hope it is the start of the predicted snowfall for this week. We'll keep you updated but in the meantime have a look at some of the photos from the weekend.

Kagura on Friday 30th of Nov

The early seasons runs are just getting better, trying out all the different conditions and getting back to last years levels. Friday was again blue skies with the sun beating down, but it was colder you can sense the real big dumps of snow are on the way. The melting and freezing of the courses has made them really quick, Kagura Gondola course on full throttle is the quickest it has been in a longtime. (The re shaping work in off season makes it a straight through race with no slowing down half way like last year). One down side (still rather take the blue skies at this stage) is that no new snow has meant the deep moguls on the challenge course. Get a tin hat and ready for trench warfare attempting to fly down this one.

Forecast ahead looks like the snow will return during mid week, although still rocking at the amount of early snow, we are greedy for a new fresh dump. I had a chance to take the camera out a few times so hope you enjoy the shots below

Thought I'd try to post a photo as a test...

This is one of my favourite photos from last year, taken at Kagura ski resort on 2 Dec 2006. Only 3 months until Kagura opens again...cant wait