Skiers Once Again Take To the Slopes of Cape Smokey

Ski Cape Smokey has reopened to the public under the operation of hardworking volunteers of the Ski Cape Smokey Association. At the present time Ski Cape Smokey will be open during the weekends from Friday to Sunday and volunteers entend to have the slope remain open for use during the scheduled school March Break. Chairman Larry Dauphinee of the Ski Cape Smokey Society, has commented that the volunteers who are working to open the slope plan to operate a pommel lift which could open up to three runs about halfway up the 1,000-vertical-foot ski hill.
This approximately 500 foot elevation is comparable to a lot of the other hills in the Maritimes even with just the one lift. To keep costs down the volunteers will not be operating the chairlift to the top of the hill or the costly snow making machinery. The skiers will be depending on mother nature to blanket the ski slopes, and at the moment she seems to be cooperating quite nicely.
Local residents who once skied this magnificant course, are making the most of this opportunity and are introducing the thrill of the sport to a new gereration of skiers. The reopening of Smokey, if only for a limited time, is sure to bring renewed interest in this location and along with that interest, visitors will also want to try out the slopes in one of the most scenic areas of Nova Scotia.
The Ski Cape Smokey Association are presently looking to the private sector to find a new owner who will take over the operation and reestablish this beautiful ski resort to its full potential. Ski Cape Smokey is currently owned primarily by the provincial government, which has given the local association an extention of one year to find a new owner for the operation.
Ski Cape Smokey is known for being Nova Scotia's highest elevation ski mountain at over a 320m, 305m of it skiable, and for its ocean views.