Belleayre and NYS Budget Cuts

Gerry Pallor said:

Sorry 180 - there are no single seat chair lifts at Belleayre (there are 2 doubles on the lower mountain but the view is different), no lifts with wooden chairs, and the lift servicing Belleayre Run is a high speed quad. Next time you go down Deer Run look off to your left. At one point you'll see something close to that view and, if you look down through the woods, you'll see the remains of what I think is the lift in that picture.

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Rambo said:

I have skied down Deer Run many times and have looked over at that chairlift next door at the old Highmount ski center and it is definately not the same lift in the pic of that old single chair which was probably Belleayre's first chairlift.

http://teachski.com/pcindex2004/AtoGnewyork.htm

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Rambo said:

New York State to layoff Belleayre employees:
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/workers-1280488-protest-dec.html

HIGHMOUNT -- Workers from the Department of Environmenal Conservation's Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in Highmount will travel to Albany Thursday, to protest Governor Paterson's plan to lay off 898 workers.

Belleayre employees tell us 48 of the ski center's 55 permanent staffers were notified Tuesday that their positions are being eliminated.

"Our jobs include summer recreation...music festival set up and ...hiking, biking, and fishing...snow removers, groomers, ticket sellers, lift maintenance," says one employee who tells CBS 6 her job is being cut.

About 20 Belleayre workers say they plan to voice their frustration at the Capitol Thursday morning.

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