VANCOUVER—They're expanding the search for snow to cover bare patches on Cypress Mountain, where freestyle skiing and snowboard events are slated to take place at next week's Winter Olympics.
Officials Saturday also said they've had to cancel two of the five days of training for halfpipe snowboard athletes because of the lack of snow on Cypress.
This past month was the warmest January on record in Vancouver, and the snow at Cypress has been hard to come by. They've moved truckfuls of the stuff from higher parts of the mountain and also have brought it in by helicopter from nearby hills.
Saturday they announced they'll start hauling the white stuff in by helicopter from Yak Peak in the Coquihalla Pass/Coquihalla Highway region, which links the Okanagan area and the interior of B.C. to the lower mainland.
The weather forecasters are calling for slightly cooler temperatures in Vancouver as the week goes on, but not particularly cold. It's supposed to be 11 degrees on Sunday and the forecast shows the lowest high temperature for any day this week will be 6 degrees.
VANOC officials wouldn’t say how much the snow effort is costing. But they said most snow venues haven’t had problems and that overall contingencies for all the venues are helping cover the extra Cypress costs.
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