Hakuba Update 19 May 2011
Inter-season is well and truly upon us so most of those who find themselves in this wonderful valley have now finally mourned the long slow death of the winter, and begin to appreciate and accept the birth of the beautiful months of summer. We have had some large amounts of rain passing through the valley but there have been just enough windows of opportunity to enjoy some summer passions with drier and sunny spells during the day. Yesterday was a perfect day with amazingly clear warm weather, producing an opportunity to climb and even a BBQ. The weather forecasters are predicting more sunny weather for next week.
The mountain bike trails have opened and all of them have been cleaned of winter debris. Now is a great season to enjoy off road riding before rainy season and the heat of summer are upon us. Spicy Rentals have good quality mountain bikes available.
Happy to say that bookings for this summer and next winter are picking up with both domestic and international visitors. I hope this trend continues and Hakuba can look forward to bumper summer and awesome winter once again.
Hakuba Update 18 March 2011
This weekend on both Saturday and Sunday - all profits from Bamboo Cafe sales will go to the Japan Red Cross. Both coffee shops will be open - Hakuba station and Happo. Staff are donating their time, donate some of yours to drop in and have a coffee or a hot chocolate for a good cause.
A belated Happy New Year to everyone. It seems to have been snowing every day since Christmas. Though we haven’t had the huge dumps that we normally associate with Hakuba, to have continual powder snow is a great bonus. There are few small bushes poking through on the lower slopes but the storm rolling in this weekend should cover them up until spring.