VERNON, B.C. – Nordic ski areas near Vernon would normally be open by now, but not this year – leaving them hoping for snow.
“Mother nature is throwing everything at us. We are determined to get a good cross country skiing product for our guests this weekend,” says Guy Paulsen, nordic manager at Silver Star.
Paulsen says they are planning to open some higher elevation nordic trails on Friday.
“This is quite a phenomenon for us right now. Not in that it is the first time it has ever happened, but it is very irregular,” says Paulsen.
Crews at Silver Star are hard at work today, Paulsen says staff are pulling snow from the hill onto the nordic trails.
“Normally at this time of year we are skiing. Last year at this time we had 60 kilometers of trail open between the two nordic areas,” says Paulsen referring to Silver Star and Sovereign Lake.
Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre interim general manager Don Wylie says last year they had been operating for a couple weeks by now.
“We’ve had very little snow we got some a couple of weeks ago and it is what you can see here and it has been deteriorating slightly over the last two weeks,” says Wylie.
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