I said this on epic too - and I know a number of you have concerns - but I just don't see how this is going to work. The resort is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Revy - at least there are a lot of other resorts in the area, you can do the 'powder highway' and fly into Calgary pretty easily. But this is far. Edmonton is the closest major international airport - that's 5 and a half hours when it's not bad weather. I also saw here locally that the proposal to expand the Valemount airport was not approved. Valemount is a manual-only landing area. The area gets fogged in very often, short runway, so no fly-by-wire is allowed. And they won't expand. Add on to that that the town of Valemount has refused to pay for a new runway...
I think this sounds like a great project - and I commend Oberti, he actually got all of the First Nations on board and approving of this - but I question its financial viability deeply. Not to mention that there is limited bed space in Valemount and, right now, the top of the line hotel is the Super 8...
Also, from what I understand the total vertical is huge, however, it looks from the plans that there's no way to actually ski it continuously, so it might be less vertical than we think.
Don't get me wrong - I'll ski there. But I live a 5 hour drive away. I can't imagine people choosing this, especially with the lack of amenities, long drive, flight et when you can choose other places. My two cents.
