Ontario's largest ski resort will reopen summer activities this weekend, since weeks of mild temperatures have left the hills green at Blue Mountain.
Resort staff have set up the mini golf course at the foot of the ski hill - a popular attraction in the summer that is usually covered in a deep blanket of snow during winter months.
Visitors can also tackle the climbing wall, zip lines, rope courses and rolller coaster on the weekend before Christmas.
Should Mother Nature have a change of heart, hovever, staff is ready to fire up snow-making operations.
This could be the latest opening ever for the ski resort - the record late opening is December 26.
A warmer than normal weather system, El Nino, is causing the above average temperatures across Southern Ontario.
In contrast, the Barrie had received over 60 centimetres of snow by this time last year.
The last time the province was affected by an El Nino pattern this mild was the winter of 1997/98.
This weekend is expected to be colder with the potential for snow flurries or squalls, but according to Environment Canada, winter temperatures will return to above average - at least 3 or 4 degrees higher than average - during January and February.
That's a sharp contrast to the winter of 2014/15, when Ontario experienced record cold, with temperatures remaining seven, eight or even 10 degrees below normal throughout February, making it the coldest February on record.
