Eastern Snowboarding
Ontario’s Blue Mountain Bounces Back
You might recall that last winter was the worst (read: warmest and least snowiest) the Toronto area had seen in years. Many resorts like Blue Mountain were forced to lay off their staff during the much-needed holiday season because, well, warm temperatures forced them all to stay closed. Blue mountain alone was forced to temporarily lay off more than a thousand people. It was an economic disaster for the local ski and snowboard industry.
Fast forward to the 2007-2008 winter season, though, and things picked up significantly. It started snowing early and often; so much, in fact, that most folks around here are grumbling that this winter was too long. (Truth be told, it probably just felt long because last winter was so easy.)
Anyway, I caught a pleasant note on Blue Mountain’s website pertaining to this year’s season that I thought I would share:
“Join us Saturday, April 12th for our 135th day on snow marking the highest number of days in operation throughout any ski and snowboard season in the mountain’s history.
Our amazing team of snowmakers, groomers and the rest of our operations team worked diligently this season to cover the hills with more than enough snow to provide excellent skiable terrain extending the 2007 / 08 season beyond our typical closing date.”
Sounds like Blue made a nice recovery this weekend. I can only assume other local hills like Moonstone had similar experiences. According to this article from last month, sounds like they did.
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no kidding, not to mention the fact that blue is planning on remaining open through this upcoming weekend. pretty tight.
surprised to see you have a link to Transworld in you blog roll, but not to Snowboard Canada’s site.
Get that equipment back out! 50cm in one day at Sunshine Village and still coming down hard.
Holy crap. And Whistler is 100% open. I live in the wrong part of the country!!