Oct 26, 2011 | News, Snow Reports, Winter Sports
The snow creeps ever closer. Yesterday afternoon the temperature dropped sharply and throughout the night there were strong winds and steady rain. The bad weather has continued this morning but above approximately 500m snow has been falling.
Oct 18, 2011 | News, Travel
Early this morning I went to climb Mt. Chisenupuri from the car park that’s located 830m up the mountain, as I drove up the Route 66 mountain pass there was a few centimetres of snow on the road. When I arrived at the car park I was greeted by two guys from the...
Oct 18, 2011 | News, Snow Reports
The temperature in Hirafu has plummeted since yesterday afternoon. Last night the thermometer went down to -2 and this morning there was a dusting of snow almost to Hirafu Village.
Oct 13, 2011 | News, Snow Reports
There has been no fresh snow today but we just found a yukimushi (雪虫) or in English snow insects… Folk law says that the appearance of these small insects is meant to signify the arrival of winter and the coming of snow in Hokkaido, we are counting down the...
Oct 4, 2011 | Snow Reports
When will the snow return? No new snow to report this morning in Hirafu village but looking at the snow line on Mt. Yotei there was a dusting above 1600m elevation. Still managed to find some on our morning walk around Hanazono Fungi down low. Walked up the Stairway...
