29 Nov 2011 - Season Starter
A late start to my local season since missing the first skiable day on Daisekkei back on the 17th, then going to Canada. At last I opened the Hakuba season today after driving to 1200m on the Happo cat tracks where I hit the snowline, followed by a 1200m hike up to Mumezawa for some nice north facing soft dry snow. Five hour round trip.
At 2200m the snow depth is about 130cm. I saw several Size 1 loose snow avalanches on solar aspects- to be expected as the recent snow has become very moist and weak under intense sun today.
Latest Weather Data*
Winter data recording ended on April 7th. More next season starting in December.
| Sat 7th | Fri 6th | |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Cover | Overcast | Few |
| Precip type and rate | S < 1cm/hr | Nil |
| AM temp | -2C | -2C |
| Max temp | 1C | 2C |
| Min temp | -3C | -2C |
| 24hr New Snow | 11cm | 8cm |
| Storm New Snow | 11cm | 12cm |
| New water equiv | ~ | ~ |
| New Snow Density | ~ | ~ |
| Snow Depth | 181cm | 169cm |
| Baro Pressure | 915mbar | 909mbar |
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Comments
At least you had the right
At least you had the right idea driving, i slogged up the bottom of 47 to the top of the quad a few weeks ago, i could only skin from about half way up the home run, took me about 1 1/2 hours!!
Always find a way to drive to
Always find a way to drive to the snowline :)
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