and finally, a shot of the other side of the mountain, where nobody is
wasting money bringing in snow

http://www.allvoices.com/news/517969...image/48119669

http://www.kelowna.com/2010/01/29/ba...snow-concerns/

"With unseasonably warm temperatures and weeks of snow-sapping rain
threatening a 2010 Winter Olympics venue, Games organizers have gone
into anti-meltdown overdrive.
....
Media concerns about conditions reached near-fever pitch last week,
following the admission by organizers that Mother Nature was failing
Cypress and that alternative measures were required to rehabilitate
the balding mountainsides."

"Spinning straw into snow"
http://news.cnet.com/2300-13860_3-10...html?tag=mncol

Not much left of the 10 meters of snow which fell there in
previous months.

Greater Victoria Watershed photos for 2010/January/7/13/20:

http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersupp...voirphotos.htm

Move the Olympics to the snow.