"Our big advantage here is not only the height of the mountains, but we're left with a pretty great legacy from the Olympics with our snowmaking capacity," said Peter Young, event and terrain park manager at Whistler Blackcomb. "We did upgrades for the Games and that's paying off this year."
Mother Nature might have dumped a ton of new snow in Whistler over the weekend, but snowmakers saved the season up until this point, Young added.
"If we didn't have all those acres of snowmaking our guests would've been going away unhappy or wouldn't have come in the first place. It would've been detrimental to the whole valley, the restaurants and hotels. Snowmaking is a huge part of what makes this work," he said.