Shames Mountain Rains make for preparations to mitigate issues later this season

It's been a damp Ski Season so far for Shames Mountain, with both welcome amounts of snow, followed. by less welcome bouts of rainfall for the Northwest ski hill.

Operations continue through this holiday week and the Mountain's snow report for today indicates 16 cm of new snow in the last 24 hours for the upper mountain, 7 cm of snow for the lower mountain areas.

The runs will be in operation through to New Years Day from 9AM to 3:30PM for those looking to get the last few travels on the slopes for 2023.

Shames officials are however keeping an eye on the continued rainfall and have developed a plan towards water mitigation, putting a call out for those with pallets to lend a hand towards their work.

The pallets to be used towards preparing for rain events anticipated for later this ski season.

You can keep up with the latest notes from Shames through their Social media stream here.

A look at the 2023-24 Ski season can be explored here.