Mike Pratt Retiring

From the ORDA Mission Statement:

"The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) was established in 1981 to create and administer a post-Olympic program for the facilities and venues utilized during the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games. These facilities include: the Olympic Ice Center; the Olympic Speedskating Oval; the Whiteface Mountain Ski Area and Veterans’ Memorial Highway; the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Complex that includes bobsled and luge runs, cross-country ski trails and a biathlon range; the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex; and the U.S. Olympic Training Center. In 1984, ORDA’s responsibility expanded to include the management of the Gore Mountain Ski Center in North Creek, Warren County, and in 2012, Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in Shandaken, Ulster County."

I didn't realize that Belleayre was added relatively recently. I didn't ski at Belleayre or Gore until after 2013.
 
What gives you the idea that I am qualified for such a position?

I used to watch the Zamboni at RPI, but I never drove it in real life.
 
MarzNC said:
I didn't realize that Belleayre was added relatively recently. I didn't ski at Belleayre or Gore until after 2013.
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Here's an interview I posted in 2010 with the Belle back story told from the POV of a longtime advocate. It's a bit of a time capsule -- when Tony Lanza ran the ski area, the DEC was mismanaging it, virtually all of the state money flowed north to the ADKs, and they were trying to move the planned Belleayre Resort forward.
 
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