2 Feb - windy

Time to take a day off and stay at home clearing snow. I also made an extension for my snow height measurement pole, which is 300cm and has little more than 50cm left. I added another 100cm and sincerely hope we do not need much of it. Warm weather coming briefly next week should aid rapid settlement. So far this season we have had 791cm of snowfall at 800m at the snowy end of the valley,which is more cumulative snowfall than we have had at this point in the season for the last 4 seasons [since I have been measuring]. More snow forecast this evening may take us closer to 300cm snow height outside my house. This afternoon the clouds cleared and the wind really started to move in the valley, though it has been blowing at least moderately to strongly for some days now at treeline. I took advantage of the sunlight for a photo of the snow walls around the entrance to our house. For reference, that pair of DPS Wailers are 184cm long.

If anyone reading is a snowshoe hiker and wants to complete an AST Level 1 avalanche course, I have another snowshoer looking for partners so that I can run the training. Otherwise, if you are a skier or boarder, my next AST course is on 11-12 Feb.

Edit: last night gave Hakuba 4cm whilst other areas a little NE in Nagano of here received 30cm or so, for example, Nozawa. Density of new snow is a little misleading as most of it fell almost 20 hours prior to reading at the end of the new snow 24 hour period.