It’s a soggy start to Winterlude in Ottawa-Gatineau, with the opening of a main attraction pushed back a day because of mild conditions.
The annual festival opened Friday morning and runs until Feb.19. Organizers announced Thursday that the opening of the Snowflake Kingdom, the popular site for ice slides and other activities in Gatineau’s Jacques-Cartier Park, was postponed from Friday to Saturday.
Organizers said they had made enough snow to cover the area, but now they need more.
“Since last week it’s very warm, we lost a certain width of thickness of snow,” said Benoit Brière, the City of Gatineau’s co-ordinator of the Snowflake Kingdom.
Brière said work will be
