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Mount Orford ( region of the Canadian province of Quebec . It is a few minutes away from the town of Magog and one hour from Montreal . The ski resort is consists of three summits: Mont Giroux, Mont Orford and Mont Alfred Desrochers, and four sides. It is the home mountain for olympic medalist Nicolas Fontaine , and there is a glade named in his honour. The main summit, Orford, is served by a $6.5 millon "Hybrid Chairlift" or Telemix . This means that on one single cable, instead of only gondolas or only chairs, there are both 8-person gondolas and 6-person chairs. This system is rather common in Europe, but it was the first of its kind in North America . MOUNTAIN DETAILS FACILITIES
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT The land the resort is located on is a Provincial parkland posses a bail to rent this land, but the man-made structures are privately owned. Therefore this does not allow the current owners to build condos near the resort, as the land is not privately owned. For many year now, the mountain has struggled financially (it has lost an average of 1.2 millions dollars per year for the last five years) and condominiums at the base of the mountain would be the only way to not only support the resort, but also the whole region which as been largely affected by the closures of many factories in Magog. The "promoters" have offered to give the Park other estates which would double the area of the Mont Orford Park in exchange of the land at the base of the mountain which would be sold to the highest bidder. This would allow for the construction of condos and make the mountain profitable and create thousands of direct jobs. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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