CALGARY, Alberta (AP)—Call this the Icebox Olympics. No matter how warm it gets, Calgary organizers expect to keep cool.

With the 1988 Winter Games scheduled to start Saturday, organizers aren’t worrying about Calgary’s flukey weather.

About three feet of man-made snow covers the trails for Alpine skiing. Workers at the cross-country and biathlon courses have used farm tractors and manure spreaders to haul in 10 inches of computer-generated snow at their venue.

And even if temperatures rise to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, bobsled and luge managers say they can just turn up the refrigeration.

“Last March, we held a World Cup luge meet at about 70 degrees Fahrenheit,” said Francis Saville, venue chairman at Canada Olympic Park, which also will be the site of the Olympic bobsledding and ski jumping competitions. “The mid-60s is about as high as we’d care to see it go, but our refrigeration system is supposed to keep the ice solid up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.”

Actually, the weather has favored Calgary organizers lately. After a warm January, temperatures have cooled off with only an occasional warm Chinook wind blowing in off the Canadian Rockies.

You can almost see a Chinook coming. The clouds part just above the horizon, forming a narrow window of blue sky over the mountains. That’s when a Chinook is building.

Even such a wind, which can raise temperatures 20-30 degrees in less than an hour, would pose little problem for these refrigerated Olympics, though.

“We’re in good shape—Chinook or no Chinook,” said venue chairman John Rule of the Canmore Nordic Centre, which will be the site of Olympic cross-country skiing and biathlon.