Clocks have been turned back and 2024 has a little less than two months left, so it’s all downhill from here.
But frost and foremost, there’ll be a flurry of activity of the white kind.
Not only has Edmonton seen its first snowfall of the year amid temperatures below zero, at least one local ski hill is busy firing up its snow-making machines for the season.
Snow Valley Ski Club is hoping for a mid-November start date, says Tim Dea, the southside slope’s marketing and communications manager.
“It might be a little later in November, but we’re still confident we’re going to get on (skis) before December,” Dea told CTV News Edmonton on Monday.
Last year, warm weather delayed local ski hills from opening until early December.
Dea said Snow Valley, located in the Whitemud Creek ravine next to Rainbow Valley Park off Whitemud Drive, is waiting for the mercury …