New infrastructure is being tweaked at Cardrona Alpine Resort and Snow Park, while Treble Cone is installing its snow-making guns on its mountain trails, as operations gear up for winter.
Treble Cone is using a helicopter to help its staff install snow-making guns at the skifield's main basin in preparation for the arrival of cold temperatures. The aircraft is pictured dropping a snow-making gun into place.
Snow Park general manager Sam Lee has blogged that a seven-year review of the specialist freestyle terrain park's operations hasrecently been completed.
Snow Park wanted to "re-energise the momentum" by adding new features in the park, such as an upgraded Olympic-sized half-pipe, while also improving the customer experience for visitors, he said.
Cardrona Alpine Resort is proceeding with work on the first stage of its planned Valley View chairlift, which will open up an extra 25ha of the mountain and add more than 200m of vertical descent to the skifield.
Phase two of the Valley View upgrade is planned to bring more snow-making facilities to the new terrain in time for the 2011 winter.
Skifield opening days are scheduled for June 24 at Treble Cone, June 25 at Cardrona, and June 26 at Snow Park.
