Final day of the ski season at Big White Ski Resort – Okanagan | 24CA News
As we transfer additional into spring, our favorite winter pastimes are placed on ice.
For many, that features snowboarding and snowboarding at Big White Ski Resort and it was a bittersweet day as some went as much as the hill for one final trip.
Monday caps off what resort officers say has been one of the profitable seasons within the resort’s historical past.
“The weather’s been fantastic, we had a wonderful March. I know it’s nice and dry in the valley, but we had some beautiful sunny days up here. Spring break was fantastic. Even on our closing day, just after Easter weekend, we have some beautiful champagne powder falling from the sky,” mentioned Trevor Hanna, vice-president of hospitality at Big White Ski Resort.
Moving previous the pandemic, the resort was in a position to welcome extra worldwide travellers this ski season.
“Australia in particular and then everything out of the east. The connections to and from YLW have really helped as air traffic goes, so do a lot of the interior resorts so we’ve been very fortunate with that,” mentioned Hanna.
Visitors from the world over took full benefit of the lifted restrictions and made their method to Big White.
“We do an exchange here for 10 months and in Germany, we can just go skiing once or twice a year and being here like every weekend is amazing,” mentioned Nina Bartsch.
Bartsch and alternate pupil Katharina Wiegand spent over 50 days at Big White throughout their time within the Okanagan.
“In Germany, we had a lot of restrictions and now just to be free and do everything again is pretty nice,” Wiegand mentioned.
Those up on the hill Monday all had the same feeling concerning the season coming to an finish.
“I’m really sad because I really had a really great time here,” mentioned Oliver Seymour.
Many loved the contemporary powder on the hill that morning.
“It’s heartbreaking because it’s been such a great season, we had so much snow and just want to keep going,” mentioned Ruah Friesen.
Although snow continues to be within the forecast at Big White, employees say retaining the resort open longer is solely not potential.
“We’re getting a lot of questions about why we can’t stay open but it’s more about what we need to do now to get ready for our summer season than it is about the winter season,” mentioned Hanna.
“We have a lot of capital projects that we’re gonna get underway that will basically take a lot of our energy and time in the next couple months.”
Big White is aiming to welcome riders in for the mountain biking season on June twenty ninth.
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