‘Powder day after powder day’: SilverStar extends season by a week – Okanagan | 24CA News
With daylight getting longer now, ski hills within the Okanagan have lengthened their working hours.
On Friday, Big White Ski Resort prolonged the time that two of its 16 lifts function, whereas SilverStar Mountain Resort introduced that it’ll keep open for every week longer.
At Big White, the Black Forest and Ridge Rocket chairlifts will now run till 4 p.m., a rise of half-hour from their earlier closure time of three:30 p.m.
At SilverStar, the resort’s final day of the season shall be April 16 – because of this season’s heavy snowfall totals.
As of March 2, it had acquired virtually 670 cm of snow. That’s 30 cm shy of its annual common snowfall, and there are nonetheless six weeks remaining.
“Seeing as we still have well over a month left in our winter season, 670 cm is well over what we would normally see by this time of year, and we anticipate breaking 700 cm long before our scheduled end-of-season date,” mentioned Ian Jenkins, SilverStar’s director of gross sales and advertising.
Jenkins added, “in the past 10 years, we’ve only had one other season comparable to this one.”
As of Saturday, SilverStar had no new in a single day snow, however did have seven centimetres of contemporary powder up to now 48 hours and 64 cm over the previous week. Overall, the resort has seen 673 cm of cumulative snow, and has a present base depth of 252 cm.
“Over the past couple weeks we have been having powder day after powder day,” Jenkins mentioned. “It feels like the snow just keeps coming, and we are loving it.”
At Big White, the resort is reporting one centimetre of contemporary snow, a cumulative snowfall complete of 644 cm and a base of 263 cm. The resort’s closing day is ready for Monday, April 10.
In the South Okanagan, Apex Mountain Resort close to Penticton is tentatively scheduled to shut on Sunday, April 2.
The resort is reporting three centimetres of recent snow up to now 12 hours, a base of 232 cm, and a cumulative snowfall complete of 529 cm.
In associated news, a ski hill in Southern California is seeing record-level snowfall totals.
Located round 160 km from Los Angeles, Big Bear Mountain Resort says it’s acquired 134 inches of snow — that’s 11 ft, or 3.4 metres — in the course of the previous week.
But for those who’re pondering of rapidly jetting out to Big Bear, good luck getting there, because it’s snowed in.
Due to the current storms that battered the realm, a state of emergency has been declared for the San Bernardino mountains. All roads to and from Big Bear Mountain Resort are closed, and there’s no estimated time of reopening.
On its web site, the resort mentioned “we highly recommend postponing booking or making travel plans to the mountains until the roads have been properly cleared and local agencies have verified they are safe for public travel.”
However, the resort is open, and a webcam confirmed lovely circumstances and blue skies on Saturday.
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