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Also new this year is the addition of a barista station
and a bar area. They have a new tap system for a
localized bar that will offer five flights of beer,
Johnston said.
“We’re working with a local brewery, Farmery, to
work on maybe an Asessippi beer or offer local flights
of beer,” she said.
They’ve also updated a cabin that they have mid-hill,
where visitors can spend a few minutes out of the cold
by the fire and get something to eat.
“(It’s great for) whether you’re coming out to ski for
the day, snowboard, or you’re bringing the grandkids
and you want somewhere cosy to hang out,” she said.
Outside, the resort has also made some updates with
their snow-making machinery in the hope that, moving
forward, the resort will be able to open earlier. It's a

project that they have been talking about for a few
years, Johnston said.
Snow was already being deployed at the resort in
November, spraying out onto the open hill and
creating a winter wonderland.
“In the past, we’ve had to wait for a certain
temperature to be at least -10 C or -11 C, and the
humidity had to be low, because basically we’d shoot
water through a big metal shoot into the air as high as
we could, so it could freeze on the way down,” she said.
With the snow-making upgrades, they can now
create powder at a warmer temperature.
“There’s some technology that if you mix compressed
air with water then it’s going to change the freezing
point of the water, it’s going to shoot it higher in the
sky, so that allows you to make snow at higher
temperatures,” she said. “The ideal once we get it all
working and that sort of thing is to be able to make
snow between -2 C and -5 C, so we don't have to wait
until that - 11 C temperature.”
They have ski hills for different levels, with
challenging, intermediate and easy trails. There is also Photos top to bottom: Shannon Johnston, assistant
a tubing park, two terrain parks, and an expanded manager, and Wanda Guay, sales and marketing
bunny hill with a magic carpet at the resort. manager at Asessippi Ski Area & Resort stand under a
Throughout the season, there are activities for snow-making machine on a chilly day in November
guests to do inside too, Guay said, including a small gift (Melissa Verge); A snowboarder gets some air at
Asessippi (Matt Goerzen); Shannon Johnston shows off
shop. skis available for rental at the resort (Melissa Verge).

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