One of the key facilities for the Winter Games next month was completed at the Cardrona Alpine Resort on Saturday.
Halfpipe builder John Melville added the finishing touches to his ''superpipe'' - the 165m long, 6.8m high snow structure from which freestyle skiers will launch their daring aerial manoeuvres.
Mr Melville has been building halfpipes for more than a dozen years, and has turned it into a fulltime business.
The halfpipes at the Sochi and Vancouver Winter Olympics were examples of his handiwork.
Mr Melville began work on the Cardrona superpipe about a month ago, taking advantage of the big early snowfalls.
''It's some of the best snow quality I've ever seen. It compares with some of the best snow conditions worldwide, I think, for doing what we are doing.''
He uses his own device, the ''global cutter'', on the front of a groomer to carve precise angles into thousands of cubic metres of snow.
Mr Melville makes no bones about the facilities that Cardrona will have in place for the Winter Games.
''It's actually world class. It's a smaller sized resort that is standing on the world stage.''
Mr Melville's next project will be a smaller halfpipe at Cardrona for skiers and snowboarders ''a little bit daunted'' by the size of the superpipe.
Resort general manager Bridget Legnavsky said halfpipe, slopestyle and big air events were where ''the hype'' in snow sports was at the moment.
All Winter Games facilities would be accessible on foot, and Ms Legnavsky was hoping for good crowds to provide competitors with ''a real vibe and a party atmosphere''.
