ORDA Reports Record Attendance at its Winter Facilities

[thetrailboss]

State-run ski centers see record visits

ORDA facilities, which include three ski centers: Whiteface, Belleayre and Gore, saw more than a million visitors this past fiscal year

www.adirondackexplorer.org

 

[Newpylong]

Good. More people on snow the better for the industry.

 

[Edd]

Is Bellayre pronounced like Bel-Air? I like to ask the important questions.

 

[drjeff]

Is Bellayre pronounced like Bel-Air? I like to ask the important questions.

That's how I have heard it pronounced for decades

 

[Smellytele]

Is Bellayre pronounced like Bel-Air? I like to ask the important questions.

How else could it be pronounced?

 

[Edd]

How else could it be pronounced?

Sometimes a “Y” can have an “I” sound. Like the words apply, rely, deny…Nobody I know IRL has ever mentioned Bellayre. If it weren’t for AZ I’d be unaware of it.

 

[JimG.]

It's spelled "Belleayre".

Happy for ORDA, they do a good job (I know there are some who would vehemently disagree).

Since I qualify for the senior rate on my K pass this coming season I'm considering getting the ORDA 3 in 1 which will add Gore and Whiteface to my NY choices. With the IKON pass included in my Beast 365 pass that should give me way more skiing options than I'll reasonably be able to visit.

 

[ThatGuy]

I could see Belleayre being pronounced Belly-air. Plattekill and Pico are two others with ambiguous pronunciations if you’re not familiar with their names.

 

[JimG.]

I could see Belleayre being pronounced Belly-air. Plattekill and Pico are two others with ambiguous pronunciations if you’re not familiar with their names.

Oh I agree the spelling is a little weird, making the pronunciation a little ambiguous.
But to be fair, I've never heard those other mountains pronounced Platty-kill or Pik-o.
I'm sure they have been, just never heard it.

 

[cdskier]

Oh I agree the spelling is a little weird, making the pronunciation a little ambiguous.
But to be fair, I've never heard those other mountains pronounced Platty-kill or Pik-o.
I'm sure they have been, just never heard it.

There's a whole thread about Pico pronunciation on reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/icecoast/comments/10tz3w6

 

[thetrailboss]

There's a whole thread about Pico pronunciation on reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/icecoast/comments/10tz3w6

Pike-o.

 

[ThatGuy]

I’ve know my whole life its Pike-oh but my brain wants to it to be Peak-oh for some reason…

 

[JimG.]

There's a whole thread about Pico pronunciation on reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/icecoast/comments/10tz3w6

Kind of amazing a majority chose Pee-ko.

 

[cdskier]

I’ve know my whole life its Pike-oh but my brain wants to it to be Peak-oh for some reason…

Because that's the way the word is pronounced using the Spanish roots of it... I've long argued that should be the correct pronunciation and that "Pike-oh" is wrong.

Kind of amazing a majority chose Pee-ko.

That would be my choice if I was voting.

 

[urungus]

 

[ThatGuy]

I’ve always heard it Bah-Skay

 

[JimG.]

Because that's the way the word is pronounced using the Spanish roots of it... I've long argued that should be the correct pronunciation and that "Pike-oh" is wrong.



That would be my choice if I was voting.

I see "Pi" and my mind goes right to the number.

 

[Abominable]

I’ve always heard it Bah-Skay

I ski Bousquet now a few times a year as I'm a Catamount / B. East passholder. What's comical is the amount of different ways I've heard it pronounced, even from people who work there or at its 'sister' mountains.

Boo-skay
Boo-sket
Bah-skay
Bah-sket

and even "Basket," though I think that was just tying to be funny.

 

[mister moose]

Since the poll gets quoted frequently on TV and radio, I have to wince at the number and variety of wrong pronunciations of Quinnipiac. And there are tons of people that don't know that K1 Lodge is pronounced 'KBL'. I've skied Bahs-kay since high school. And apparently Suicide is now pronounced 'Saskawena'

 

[abc]

Suicide is now pronounced 'Saskawena'

So you didn’t like the name change… I see