Plenty of fresh snow making for great ski-hill conditions
Posted Mar 6, 2012 3:49 pm.
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Not everybody is frustrated by the big snow-dump across much of the province.
Skiers, boarders, and ski-hill operators are salivating at all the fresh powder blanketing their runs.
For some hills, the recent storm has just added to an already snowy season.
Sunshine Village reports their fifth largest snowfall in the past four decades this season, with over two months still to go.
The resort has had 123 centimetres dumped on its runs since the beginning of March, which sets the resort well on the way to breaking the March record accumulation of 208 centimetres set in 2011.
Two other mountain resorts, Lake Louise and Mount Norquay report they too have received near-record amounts of fresh powder with over a metre each since the beginning of March.
Canada Olympic Park’s Dale Oviat is hopeful the 20 centimetres of snow dumped on the Calgary-based hill over the past day will drive more skiers to the hill.
“It just makes for better skiing, obviously the natural stuff is much better for skiing than the man-made stuff,” says Oviat.
