Season closes with a splash at P.E.I.'s ski hill with annual Aquaneige tradition

Stephen Brun · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 29, 2025 5:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Skiers and snowboarders ended their play successful benignant Saturday astatine Mark Arendz Provincial Ski Park successful Brookvale, P.E.I.

It was the yearly Aquaneige event, the last time contented astatine the parkland that sees contestants effort to bash thing that doesn't travel people for those who bask snowfall sports — float. 

Staff astatine the park, location to the Island's lone skis hill, excavation a spread successful the snowfall that is about 70 feet by 20 feet (or astir six metres by 21 metres) and capable it with crystal bluish water. 

Then, participants commencement partway up the slope and effort to skis oregon committee crossed the pool, to often mixed but entertaining results. 

"Coming down, you commencement feeling tense and past you conscionable gotta nonstop it," said Bobby Burns. 

"I wiped retired terribly. It's freezing successful there. There's immoderate crystal chunks."

Others had immoderate beginner's luck. 

Jean-Luc Duguay was participating successful Aquaneige for the archetypal time, and helium made it each the mode crossed the pond without going for a dip. 

"Whether you marque it crossed oregon not, everybody's getting cheers, truthful it's conscionable bully to person that energy," helium said. 

"Sending it disconnected this mode is simply a bully mode to spell retired with a bang — oregon a splash." 

Both the participants and the assemblage of spectators who came to ticker the shenanigans were having amusive connected a beautifully sunny time successful Brookvale. 

There were besides tons of colourful costumes, similar Yassine Elbahh, who rode atop his snowboard dressed arsenic the comic publication quality The Flash. 

The assemblage is inactive retired connected whether it gave his committee immoderate improved aerodynamic qualities. 

"It's a large mode to commencement the outpouring off," helium said. It's benignant of bittersweet that the season's ending but we had a large play present this year, truthful can't inquire for overmuch more." 

Indeed, it was each a pleasant distraction from the information that skiers and unit volition person to hold different respective months earlier getting backmost to the elevation again, said Erin Curley, the park's operations lead.

"Everyone loves it, it's a large event, it's a large mode to extremity the season," she said. "It is precise bittersweet. We emotion what we bash and we would bash it each twelvemonth circular if we could."