Avatar Snowskates are officially approved for use on all ski runs and ski lifts of all the ski hills used for the prototypes field-testing  - descending in excess of 850,000 vertical feet of ski runs in demo trials to date: at Grouse Mtn.; Mount Seymour;  Sun Peaks; Cypress Mtn. and Whistler / Blackcomb Mtns., skiing and snowboarding event sites of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.