While snow has been scarce in Great Falls, the Neihart area has plenty of the white stuff. Showdown Montana is just weeks away from welcoming skiers and snowboarders back to the slopes.

"We are so excited because we are celebrating our 89th season on Highway 89, so we are ready for another year," said Avery Patrick, vice president and marketing director at Showdown Montana.

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"A lot of people know, we don't make snow at Showdown. So we haul snow from our parking lot and we build up, we haul it in a dump truck and we build up our base area with that snow. So the dump trucks have been running all morning. We had a nice storm overnight," Patrick said.

"We just did some improvements to our lodge this year. We made just some upgrades in some rooms around the lodge, which will

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