Quebec ski resorts gear up for winter [Video]

Ski season is just around the corner and ski hill operators say they’re getting ready for it and hoping it’s better than last year.

West of the island of Montreal, Ski Mont Rigaud is installing a second chair lift just in time for the colder temperatures and the first snow. Luc Elie says “It’s a total of $2.4 million investments that we’ve put in.”

With fluctuations in winter temperatures becoming the norm, Elie says his snow guns have to lay-down a metre-deep base of man-made snow before the natural stuff starts to fall.

“Last year was a bad snow season. it was only a hundred centimetres. But the season before that, there was over 250 centimetres in this region, says Elie.

Meanwhile, Yves Juneau of The Quebec Association of Ski Stations says his members are doing everything to adapt and need help.

“Snowmaking is definitely one of the tools that …