Castle Mountain rebounds after rocky start to ski season
Global News
The local ski resort is no stranger to a lack of snow or a fight with Mother Nature. Castle Mountain Sales and marketing manager Cole Fawcett calls this year a “one in 10.”
Skiers and snowboarders are flocking back to Castle Mountain now, but Mother Nature had the local ski resort on its heels at the start of the season.
“It was a pretty grim start to the season, morale was down,” said Tahlia Spangen, a lift operator who works for the resort in her first season, originally from Australia. “There was a lot of chatter about if the season will last.”
The local ski resort is no stranger to a lack of snow or a fight with Mother Nature. Castle Mountain Sales and Marketing manager Cole Fawcett calls this type of year a “one in ten.”
“Castle has historically been impacted negatively, quite negatively in terms of snowfall,” he said. “And so, the resort made recent investments in snow-making machines … but Castle couldn’t always use them.”
Assistant Manager of Castle’s Maintenance Department, Jeremy Hargreaves said. “It was very difficult to continue making snow, the weather was very challenging … Our snowmakers have done very well to get us to this point.”
“It wasn’t until the last week really when we had the last meter and a half of fresh snowfall that we knew we could turn off the snow machines this year,” said Hargreaves.
“We’re actually at about 95 per cent of snowfall as last year to the same date,” Fawcett said.
Heading into the final weeks of operation, Castle Mountain has an air of excitement and relief.
Bird flu has spread far and wide, infecting a range of species like chickens, skunks, cows, foxes and polar bears. But it's the pigs that have experts on high alert.
The CFIA has recalled E. coli-tainted carrots, following a U.S. health warning about the contaminated produce linked to one death and dozens of illnesses.
Health Canada said there was an issue with the braking system of the Stokke YOYO baby stroller, sold between August and October this year.
These editorial stories and interviews will focus on the people, companies, research, and innovations leading the environmental and sustainable movement in B.C.
Bennett had just returned from the school run last week when she found the mom and a baby raccoon unconscious, with one of the babies sleeping on the furniture.
B.C. health authorities have announced the first case of a human avian flu infection acquired in Canada, with the teenage patient in critical condition in hospital.
People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the first human to get the virus in Canada and is in hospital.
The Liberal government and the NDP negotiated the substance of a pharmacare bill as part of their now-defunct supply-and-confidence agreement.
Kennedy ran as an independent presidential candidate but gave Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a role in health policy in the next Trump administration.
Emergency services are at the scene of a train derailment Thursday morning on Montreal's south shore, where they are urging citizens to stay away from the area.
"I was yelling at them saying get the F** away it’s a wild animal," resident Josh Merrin told Global News. "Sorry about my language."