After being closed on Saturday due to high winds, good numbers of skiers and boarders turned up to get their last snow fix of the year, ski area manager Steve Hall said.
One chairlift was put on hold at times throughout the day because of wind, a frequent situation in the past six or so weeks as "ceaselessly windy weather" plagued the ski area, Mr Hall said.
"In that time we’ve still had plenty of guests and people having a good time, but it’s just made for some challenging operating conditions."
The season had similarities to last year, with a lack of snow in the first two months before entering a "disturbed and windy" spring that yielded more snow.
"We’ve had a fantastic snowmaking and grooming team this year, who’ve done an amazing job, so through the first couple of months when we weren’t getting a lot of natural snow, we still had very good skiing."
In terms of visitor numbers, it had been one of the busiest years in the skifield’s history, he said.
"It hasn’t been an easy season, but it’s been a successful one."
He would now focus his attention on a "huge" programme of offseason maintenance, and some new projects.
They included the extension of the base building’s restaurant into the area occupied by the outdoor deck, and the replacement of the maintenance building.
Meanwhile, owner NZSki has applied for fast-track consent to extend the skifield into the Doolans Basin, via a gondola over the ridge to the south, which would increase its daily capacity from about 4000 skiers/boarders to 10,000.
The Remarkables’ sister skifield, Coronet Peak, closed a fortnight ago.
