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More information has come out after Crystal Mountain announced they will not open this year. Castanet has learned the BC Safety Authority gave initial instructions to the operators of the resort in July, stipulating what they had to do to obtain an operating licence. No repairs have been completed.
The BC Safety Authority suspended the ski hill's licence following an accident involving one of its ski lifts on March 1.
"Back in July we issued a number of instructions to Crystal Mountain in terms of regulated work that would need to be done on their three passenger ski lifts in order for us to be confident they would be safe for public use. Then we would issue their operating licence," says Quinn Newcombe with the BC Safety Authority.
"To our knowledge the work has not been completed so their operating licence remains suspended at this time."
Newcombe says the work is technical, but it is work that would have to be performed on all three lifts so the authority was 'confident' they are safe for public use.
"The reason we outlined those instructions back in July was to give them adequate time to get that work done if they did indeed plan on having another season."
The hill announced Saturday on its Facebook page it would not operate this coming season.
The message read:
"Thank you all for patiently waiting for an update from us. I'm sad to announce that the mountain will not be in operation for the upcoming 2014-2015 winter season. But this is not a goodbye, we plan to be open for the 2015-2016 season. Season pass holders will receive their refund as promised. For questions, please message our Facebook page."
No further explanation was provided.
As for the incident itself, Newcombe says the data collection and analysis phase of the investigation is complete.
"Our safety manager is currently drafting the full, comprehensive report, but it won't be released until later this fall."
Newcombe says a preliminary statement is expected to be released later this week.
