Today’s typhoon brought pretty wild weather and what is almost snow at village level … well sleety, slushy accumulation anyway. We imagine that up high you could probably strap a board on or click into an old pair of skis and slide around a bit, though you would need to a pretty hardy type as it blowing hard enough to take paint of a house right now and the last of the autumn leaves are zipping around like air-bourne garden mulch. If it gets colder overnight tomorrow could be interesting!
![An early Yeti foot-print sighting?](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16298.jpg)
An early Yeti foot-print sighting?
![Looking up the mountain from the Hirafu Gondola Station.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16304.jpg)
Looking up the mountain from the Hirafu Gondola Station.
![Autumn giving in to Winter on the mountain.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16306.jpg)
Autumn giving in to Winter on the mountain.
![The lift side of the Alpen Hotel at 11.30AM.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16310.jpg)
The lift side of the Alpen Hotel at 11.30AM.
![Log cabin contrast at the lift closest to the Alpen Hotel.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16313.jpg)
Log cabin contrast at the lift closest to the Alpen Hotel.
![Hirafu ticket office lawn going under.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16315.jpg)
Hirafu ticket office lawn going under.
![Sasa grass getting loaded up.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16317.jpg)
Sasa grass getting loaded up.
![The Welcome Centre at Hirafu dwarfed by the new Skye Niseko building site.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16323.jpg)
The Welcome Centre at Hirafu dwarfed by the new Skye Niseko building site.
![Red,w hite and green.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16326.jpg)
Red,w hite and green.
![Remenants of Halloween going under.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16328.jpg)
Remenants of Halloween going under.
![More contrast but this time the streetside sign on the front end of the Alpen Hotel](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16329.jpg)
More contrast but this time the streetside sign on the front end of the Alpen Hotel
![Looking up the mountain at the Hirafu Gondola lifts.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16330.jpg)
Looking up the mountain at the Hirafu Gondola lifts.
![Red and white contrast at the Hirafu Gondola station car-park.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16333.jpg)
Red and white contrast at the Hirafu Gondola station car-park.
![Looking up the mountain at the Niseko Village run ajacent to the Banzi chair.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16335.jpg)
Looking up the mountain at the Niseko Village run ajacent to the Banzi chair.
![Looking skyward at the freshly painted Annupuri Jumbo quad.](http://360niseko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SP_16339.jpg)
Looking skyward at the freshly painted Annupuri Jumbo quad.