October 15, 2014 (Canmore, AB) – Snow is in the air and Alberta is ready to kick things off soon as the Canmore Nordic Centre began the annual ritual of breaking out the snow they’ve been storing to prep the first trails in anticipation of the upcoming Frozen Thunder event October 24-27.

“The Nordic Centre started trucking the snow onto the trails on Monday (Oct. 13) and the word is that they’re hoping to have skiing by this Friday (Oct. 17), or Saturday at the latest. Looks like they have more snow than ever this year so it should be a decent sized loop if they use it all now. My guess would be more than 3km but it’s tough to tell at this point. The forecast looks promising for good skiing with highs of only around 10-12 degrees however it’s still not freezing at night yet,” said SkiTrax correspondent, Drew Goldsack.