Good news for skiiers and snowboarders in southern Alberta.

The long summer wait is over, and thanks to lots of help from Mother Nature, some ski resorts have opened in the mountains west of Calgary.

Sunshine Village opened this past weekend, and Lake Louise officially opened on Tuesday, an earlier-than-normal start to the season for both resorts.

Kendra Scurfield, vice-president of Sunshine Village, calls it the earliest opening in the resort’s history.

“This is the earliest in our corporate memory bank that we have ever opened. Our previous earliest opening, I think it was 2016 or 2015, when we opened on November 3rd,” said Scurfield.

“Mother Nature was magnanimous. She turned on the taps and we got enough snow.”

With some meteorologists predicting a return of the weather phen

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