SilverStar Resort preparing for summer season after stellar winter – Okanagan | 24CA News
It was a banner 12 months for SilverStar Mountain Resort.
This week, the favored resort close to Vernon closed for the winter season, with final Sunday because the final day skiers and snowboarders might zip down its runs.
“It was a fantastic season. Mother Nature brought in a lot of snow this year — 7.6 metres (24.9 feet) fell over the course of the season, a great amount of snow,” mentioned Ian Jenkins, the resort’s director of gross sales and advertising.
“We opened early, we stayed open late. You can’t ask for much more when it comes to a ski season than that.”
Normally, SilverStar closes after the primary weekend of April, across the eighth or so, however situations this 12 months allowed one week additional of snowboarding and snowboarding.
Coupled with an early opening, the resort had 155 days of operations.
“We saw events come back in a flurry,” mentioned Jenkins. “For us, we get lots of Australian friends, they usually had been free to journey and are available over and so, we noticed lots of our worldwide friends come over and be a part of us once more.
“So, all in all, it was nice to have the shackles off and have a normal running season and it proved very successful.”
Jenkins says even with the additional week, shutting down the winter season was a irritating choice given the quantity of snow nonetheless on the mountain.
The resort will now start prepping for its summer time season opening, scheduled for June 23.
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