One person’s garbage is a treasure for another person, as the old saying goes. But when it comes to Vancouver Island, garbage time for one person is a pleasure for a skier.
Mount Washington Alpine Resort has announced that it will reopen for Father’s Day weekend, as a long period of cold and humid weather extends into early summer.
“So, you know how everyone talks about the interesting weather on the island that keeps us on our toes … We’re moving with it,” the resort said on its website on Tuesday. “Put your toes back in these ski boots and feel the tide of sliding snow for the last time before the cycling and beach season is in full swing.”
The resort will open on weekends with the Whiskey Jack Chair, open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting, with access to limited terrain, amusement park and terrain park. Eagle’s Flight Ziptours will also be open for tours every hour.
One-day tickets will be available for all ages for $ 29, and fathers will be able to ski for free. Anyone with a season ticket from the previous ski season and those with tickets for the next season will receive free tickets for the event only on the weekend.
So far this spring on Vancouver Island has been colder than normal, with temperatures one and a half to two degrees lower than normal, Environment Canada meteorologist Derek Lee told CHEK News earlier this month.
Although winter complaints are common, the mountains north of Nanaimo remain covered in snow.
It has definitely been humid over the last three months in the whole area, with somewhere between 200 and 300 millimeters of rainfall, which is about 130 percent wetter than average, “Lee said.
In the mountains, this has become snow cover, which is more than 150 percent of its normal amount at this time of year.
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