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.