As the snow fell at Castle Mountain Resort, skiers and snowboarders hoped a world record would fall too.
The skiing and snowboarding community attempted to break the record for making the most snow angels at the same time over a one-minute span.
The host site was at Castle Mountain and they joined over a hundred ski resorts across Canada, Parliament Hill also participated in the attempt.
People who wanted to participate had to brave the snow in to break a Guinness world record.
Just under 90 people participated in the local faction of the Canada wide push.
The event was being put on in relation to Canadian Ski Patrol day and one member was instrumental in getting the ball rolling for the attempt at Castle.
“Our organization was doing the world record attempt and I looked into whether or not our area was doing it and I heard nobody was, so I put it out on social media to try to get a few people out,” said Lance Barclay of the Canadian Ski Patrol.
Barclay had hoped to just get people excited about participating in breaking a world record.
He says he didn’t care if only 10 people showed up as long as they could contribute to break the old record.
After the event he was glad to hear people enjoyed participating.
“People had fun and that was the big thing, everyone came out and had fun that’s awesome. I heard a few families came from Lethbridge specifically for this event so they aren’t skiers they just came to do this,” said Barclay.
While some people travelled to the mountain just for the snow angels, some were there just to ski and didn’t hear about the attempt.
Canadian Ski Patrol members went around the ski lodge looking for people willing to give it a shot and many were excited at the opportunity to be in the record books.
“It was fun, there was a lot of people who showed up to support the cause so hopefully we can get the record!” said Jaymi Herdman who was at Castle for the day to ski with her daughter Aleya.
“I had a lot of fun,” added the younger Herdman.
Unfortunately for the Canadian Ski Patrol, the old record of 15,851 snow angels still stands as only 7,058 Canadians participated in this year’s attempt.