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.

Perfect weekend ahead

This weekend is set to be the best yet for snow conditions in Yuzawa, its absolutely dumping at the moment and only briefly stopped about 2am this morning, first lifts tomorrow morning sounds like a really good idea! Some member of the welovesnow team are heading to Tashiro tomorrow while others are at some of the smaller resorts like Naspa and Gala. I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend and remember to dress warmly.

WeLoveSnow on TV !

This afternoon Niigata Supernews came and talked to us about the guiness record, they took footage of Josh, Partick and Koji at Gala Ski Resort in preparation and re-breaking the records this year. We discussed it in small and have included alot of night skiing and expanding across to Maiko Ski Resort, Ishiuchi Maruyama and Joetsu Kouksai. We will have to wait and see, the footage will be aired on the 22nd of Janurary from about 6:30pm.

Snowing heavily

Today is the day to be out on the hill, snow has been falling heavily since about 6:00am this morning and it looks like its set to continue for the rest of the day the 1 week weather outlook is either snow or cloud and very low tempertaures. It probably won`t get much warmer than -3 today. Today would be a perfect day out in either in Kagura or Hakkaisan and this weekend is set to be very good so if you can`t make it during the week make sure to be up for the weekend.

Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival

Yesterday night was the Nozawa Onsen fire festival. Nozawa Onsen is about a 1 hour drive from Yuzawa and is a small Onsen town located in the mountains. The fire festival involved people trying to light a structure with flaming torches while other people tried to put the flames out so the structure would not alight, eventually it was set alight and a spectacular display was put on. All in all it was great night.

Day out in Hakkaisan

This week has not seen it stop snowing and on Sunday we gave Kagura a miss and tried out Hakkaisan in Mukikamachi. What a good move! There was hardly anyone around and with their policy similar to that of Kagura in terms of off-piste lots of fun can be had, we almost ended up in a river a couple of times! It is defintley worth the 30 minute drive from Yuzawa for such a great resort!

Beatiful Snow

Overnight snowfall was around 15cm in town, much more up in Kagura where it started snowing in the late afternoon. It has no cleared up to a fine partly cloudy day. The weekend outlook is for it to snow all through the weekend. This is good news because Monday is a public holiday and Kagura should be really good.