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Originally Posted by surferguy
How could he ever afford to fix that place up…
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He intentionally let Fortress and Wintergreen fail because they competed with Nakiska (and Fortress to some degree competed with Lake Louise which RCR owned at the time). Keep nearly all the same customers but only pay expenses for two resorts instead of four.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
The runs were short, but those 4-5 runs off the Canadian chair were some of the best fall line mogul runs around. I spent half a dozen years as a Skimeister, and got to be a pretty strong mogul skier just doing those runs over and over. I thought they were about the perfect length to non stop and then recover on the chair which you could often hop right on. I'd have some burning legs after those days.
I always thought it was great as a local place for good Calgary skiers though. Turning it into a destination resort wouldn't be the same.
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In my mind's eye the runs are a lot shorter than they probably are...I picture Wawa and Wolverine chairs, but the Fortress lifts are a fair bit bigger:
Backside was same length as Standish with 30 meters more vert, so slightly
steeper less flat.
Canadian Triple (frontside) was similar vert to old Knob chair (steeper) and Eagle Ridge chair (less steep) at Marmot.
Farside double doesn't really have any nearby comps...it's got 335m of vert compared to CAD Triple's 274.
Of course the new lifts look to be a fair bit bigger...didn't see any vert stats from whipping through the plan though.
