Hakuba Iwatake / ○150cm / Cloudy2019.Mar.22
The amount of snow decreased because of the warm days and the rain & wind yesterday. We closed View 2 lift and open only five lifts, including 5 sen south, 4 sen east, 3sen north and Sawa lift. You can slide down in South, East, North, Hilltop, Sawa, HIKAGE A/B, Kamo4, Dangan and Descending Route (Sunny Valley to the bottom of Paradise).
[South Slope]
The pressure pattern is changing to the winter’s and the gases repeated becoming thick and thin with a cold north wind at the top of Snowfield this morning. The groomed burn was mixed with icy snow and became granular snow. Sawa Course melted a little and we could speed up in the thin gases.
[Sawa Course]
South Slope and Descending Course were hard in the early morning but the surface melted within 30 min, so it was good condition for sliding. But, you shold pat attention to some ground areas. We went through the clouds around the start stage of Sunny Valley Course as sliding down with the lights (photo) in the lift stop of Central high-speed and the pink poles.
[Descending Course]
Descending Course had been also groomed from Sunny Valley Course to the bottom of Paradise Course. By the way, There are the site of lily garden (photo), grass square, wooden deck for picnic, a big swing and ‘beech forest park’ around the top of Iwatake in summer season.
[Descending Course]
[Availability Information for Mar. 22]
* Available Areas … East, South, North, GEZAN, Hiltop, Sunny Valley, SAWA, KAMO4, dangan, HIKAGE A・B, Paradise, by 1 · 2
* Available Lifts … Gondola, (8:00 a.m.–), totally 5 lifts
* Lift Price … Adult ＆Senior (50–69 y/o): JPY3,200, Child & High-senior (over 70 y/o): JPY1,600
*Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field will start 2018-19 Winter operation from Dec. 14, 2018 to Mar. 31, 2019.
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