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Ski Resort Rankings

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Gibby_Nev
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Hi. I am in the midst of a project of analysing and comparing ski resorts, including having to test and measure the feasibility of building a ski resort on an undeveloped piece of land. I was hence wondering if anyone could provide any information on what constitutes a good ski resort, and how and what to produce rankings based off. Part of the project is also about the Winter Olympics, and what a ski resort would need to successfully win the hosting rights to one. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

The land in question is Wasatch Peaks Ranch, with website below. If anyone has nothing to do and wants to write up an analysis on the potential for a ski resort on the ranch then I would be forever in your debt!

https://www.mirrranchgroup.com/ranches/wasatch-peaks-ranch/
Nov 5 2017 5:29AM
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SkiBum.
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Low elevation, endless zoning and environmental hurdles, large price tag, goofy location And the fact there is already 9 ski areas within an hour make this a much better place to build your compound and have 12,000 acres to fuck off on.
Nov 5 2017 10:06AM
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theabortionator
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Steeps. Some solid blue and greens. Good lifts. Reasonably close to a major airport. Solid local infrastructure. Winter Olympics is more than just mountain stuff, so arenas for figure skating and that type of stuff. Hotels for people to stay in. Good public transport is cool, but they'll probably bring in 8 million buses anyway.

I dig a good park but it seems pretty irrelevant for having the olympics. You could build a pipe and slope course anywhere it's cold enough to make snow.

Hosting the Olympics seems like a pretty lofty goal. There's a lot to running a ski resort, especially if you're building it from scratch. I would just focus on trying to make it sweet.
Nov 5 2017 11:39AM
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HypeBeast
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This place looks awesome. If I win the lottery I'll buy it and you all can come ski here for free. How about this... We need 780 newschoolers to throw 50k each in a pot and we can buy this place hahahaha
Nov 5 2017 1:58PM
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ahshit
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IsitWinterYet17This place looks awesome. If I win the lottery I'll buy it and you all can come ski here for free. How about this... We need 780 newschoolers to throw 50k each in a pot and we can buy this place hahahaha

Dude that would be sick, call it NewSchoolers mountain or something and only members can ski it, the powder would last for days
Nov 6 2017 1:41AM
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Kulharin
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Haha, "low elevation" ... Revelstoke has a base elevation of 1700 feet to 7250 feet and people won't stop hyping it as greatest ski resort in NA... What I wouldn't give to have that "low elevation"
Nov 6 2017 1:20PM
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HypeBeast
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Honestly low elevation makes no difference if you still get nuked with snow. It does provide a positive that lowlanders can show up and ski that day without fear of getting mountain sickness symptoms.
Nov 6 2017 1:37PM
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Gibby_Nev
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IsitWinterYet17This place looks awesome. If I win the lottery I'll buy it and you all can come ski here for free. How about this... We need 780 newschoolers to throw 50k each in a pot and we can buy this place hahahaha


https://www.gofundme.com/wasatch-peaks-ranch


I don't have US citizenship or bank account etc so if we actually do this need someone else from US to make one.
Nov 6 2017 9:52PM
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HypeBeast
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Gibby_Nevhttps://www.gofundme.com/wasatch-peaks-ranch


I don't have US citizenship or bank account etc so if we actually do this need someone else from US to make one.


We can just do the EB-5 program. Like Jay Peak haha
Nov 6 2017 9:54PM
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ahshit
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Gibby_Nevhttps://www.gofundme.com/wasatch-peaks-ranch


I don't have US citizenship or bank account etc so if we actually do this need someone else from US to make one.

I see you inserted my NewSchoolers mountain idea
Nov 6 2017 10:05PM
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