After a bunch more laps of the scrubber, we’re getting close to finishing the removal for the season. We take all of the houses and give them a good wash with warm water before hanging them up to dry. Normally we lay them out on the surface to get all of the wrinkles out, but we will wait until taking ...

After completing half of the ice surface, now we finished off removing the ice with more of the same work I showed you yesterday. After pounding out the houses and hog line we continued work with the tractor. You could tell the ice melted more on this side, as we had more white come out of the ice. We have ...

Thanks to some beautiful weekend weather, the bond of the curling ice broke today and we started removing the surface. We tried a different technique this year where we started from the middle and worked outwards, which went really well and is something we will do in the future. Starting from the middle, we first broke a hole in the ...

The second day is a bit more interesting – and I’ll keep it shorter as well. Before we do anything to the ice, it’s cleanup time. We remove all of the rocks from the surface and store them safely for the season, as well as put away some of the curling maintenance equipment as well. We need to make sure ...

March 18th was the last night of curling for the 2021 season. While it was a challenging and short year, we now move onto the next job of getting ice out and the curling rink ready for mass vaccination clinics. So, we’re going to show you the process of taking ice out here at the MMCC. Just like installing ice, ...