Tuesday night we had a group approach council about taking over our municipal owned ski hill to turn it into a year round facility. Basically Tuesday's presentation was just to see if council had any interest in pursuing the concept. We directed them to go to the next step and bring a proposal back to us in writing.
Lots of issues with this little gem of a facility both good and bad, the taxpayers of the Crowsnest Pass have put a lot of money in to this hill we have to protect that investment. In the last four years the hill as seen a remarkable turn around and is being utilized like it hasn't been in years. This was achieved by making the ski hill very accessible/affordable for families, that affordability must be also protected.
There is no question that the Crowsnest Pass needs a major attraction to bring people in, would some type of tube/water park draw people here? I believe so, there are 12-15000 cars passing by our community every day in the summer. The investment for this type of project will be enormous, it is important that we make sure this group or any other group stepping forward has solid financial backing, the where with all to start and finish a project of this size, and then the ability to operate it until the business builds up to a sustainable level.
We by all means should be prepared to look at this idea but we have to proceed very cautiously there are few communities that have the luxury of this type of facility right in there back yard.
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It certainly doesn't hurt that tubing is incredibly fun.....
Especially if you catch a tailwind. ;)
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