ORDA Funding

[tirolski]

What a joke....

Liftblog had a recent update about the old Top Ridge lift going to The Ho.

News Roundup: Topridge

Gore Mountain plans to replace the Topridge triple with a fixed quad next summer. ORDA would relocate Topridge to Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Grouse Mountan will hold an art contest to wrap new gondola cab…

liftblog.com

That lift sure is getting around...almost back to where it started.

Kinda doubt it’ll used there for lift served skiing.
Haven’t found anything in The Ho’s online UMPs about any ski lift

 

[Campgottagopee]

Maybe we should let all these NYS owned ski areas stand on their own and lower our taxes.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Does anyone have an idea as to how much ORDA has spent in the last 10 years?

 

[Peter Minde]

Liftblog had a recent update about the old Top Ridge lift going to The Ho.

News Roundup: Topridge

Gore Mountain plans to replace the Topridge triple with a fixed quad next summer. ORDA would relocate Topridge to Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Grouse Mountan will hold an art contest to wrap new gondola cab…

liftblog.com

That lift sure is getting around...almost back to where it started.

Kinda doubt it’ll used there for lift served skiing.
Haven’t found anything in The Ho’s online UMPs about any ski lift

I'd love to know what the Ho would do with a DH ski lift. Like, I don't even know where they'd install it. They already have the mountain coaster doodad. @Campgottagopee ORDA's annual reports have grown progressively more opaque since I first wrote about them in, I think, 2010.

 

[tirolski]

I'd love to know what the Ho would do with a DH ski lift.

People (spectator) mover?
and/or
Put a bike rack attachment on the chairs then it’s all downhill.

Gotta be less ugly than the uphill part of the “coaster".

 

[Peter Minde]

People (spectator) mover?

That makes sense. But in the name of all that's holy, where would they install it? And where would they move people to? The only thing I can think of is to make it easier for spectators on the sliding track?

 

[tirolski]

That makes sense. But in the name of all that's holy, where would they install it? And where would they move people to? The only thing I can think of is to make it easier for spectators on the sliding track?

Something about that here...

ORDA board OKs more than $104M for venue improvements | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise

LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority board on Friday approved projects aimed at further modernizing facilities at the Mount Van Hoev

www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com

 

[SayvilleSteve]

Maybe we should let all these NYS owned ski areas stand on their own and lower our taxes.

Yes, the savings you'll get on your tax bill by trimming the New York state budget by less than 0.05% will totally be worth the $200 lift tickets.

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Jun 20, 2023

Wow - that's my NYS tax dollars "hard" at work.

The total NYS budget for 2024 is $229 billion (source)
ORDAs budget is $105 million (cited earlier).
A single filer making $100,000 per year, with no deductions pays about $5,200 in NY State taxes.
Since ORDA's budget is 0.046% of the overall budget, that strawman is paying $2.39 toward ORDA.
If you're really that bent out of shape, return a few bottles for the nickel deposit.

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[Campgottagopee]

I'll take it

ORDA is corrupt AF

The nothing to see here mentality needs to stop

 

[Yukon Cornelius]

Gotta be less ugly than the uphill part of the “coaster".

I sincerely can't believe that someone thought this was a good idea...

and such a good idea in fact, that they need to build a second one at the Ski Bowl as well.