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A ski-resort isn’t something you’d think would fit well in Metro Atlanta — after all, Atlanta only gets one or two inches of snow a year.
But one developer wants to build the world’s largest indoor ski resort on Georgia 400 in Dawson County, along Lake Lanier.
People are just finding out about the project, even though the project has been on the drawing boards for several years.
Right now, Dawson County is known for the North Georgia Premium Outlet Mall, but if developer Steve Winters has his way, Dawson County will soon be known for snow — 6,000 tons of it.
“It’s not just about snow, it’s not just about entertainment, it’s really a life experience,” Winters said.
Mount Pegasus is an estimated $1 billion ski dome.
“It’ll be a million square foot indoor ski dome with five runs. For the snowboarders, we’ll have two quarter-pipes, a half-pipe, and a super pipe; a mogul field. We’ll have the world’s only indoor snowmobile track — we’ll have a one mile Formula One snowmobile track,” said Winters. “Two ice rinks — one of them will be to NHL specs.”
Add to that, four hotels, 30 restaurants and 800,000 square feet of shops and homes. It would sit off Georgia 400 and Highway 53, along Lake Lanier. It would be as large as two Six Flags Over Georgia parks placed side by side.
“Beautiful piece of property, with a beautiful view of the mountains,” said Winters. “It has Lake Lanier, and we have something that can grow in the future.”
Winters has been working on the project for seven years. He has foreign investors on board and predicts $100 million in revenue each year. Plus he said that the project will generate 2,000 jobs.
He has shown the plans for Mount Pegasus to the Dawson County Development Authority, and the members are looking at the project seriously. But as the chairman put it, “We need to look at how we can grow.”
I guess the Atlanta metro recreation market is huge. Are they trying to draw Vikings to greater Atlanta?
Why Vikings?
Apparently Viking genes are adapted to colder climates, I guess they would be more comfortable in an artificially colder place. In reality any place that is relatively cold probably will have people with features that gives them an edge in colder temps. I didn’t realize this until I was in the tropics and noticed everybody else was much more comfortable than me. It is most likely tougher on the tropics type people up here(I live around 6,200 feet up in the sky and maybe 5 to 10 feet of snow a year on average).
Anatomy 101 can explain it. Smaller hands, feet, and skulls promote a warmer existence as this is where the body cools off the fastest. I have the smallest feet and hands (probably my German genes) many people will ever see for a male adult. I used to shovel snow all day in snowstorms with just a tee shirt, windbreaker, 1 pair of soxs with jogging shoes sopping wet and didn’t feel overly uncomfortable when I was in my 30’s.
Apparently people from colder climates have genes that keep them more comfortable when colder. This is not limited to only Vikings most likely.
check out this in dubai, it s the biggest in the world. and theyre building one twice as big as we speak
http://www.skidubai.com/
Thats really interesting Perry - I never thought about the hands and feet as cooling points for the body…especially since when I think about Vikings I think about huge blond brutes… :-)
I’m a small redish brown haired mixbreed. Smaller people can have bigger hands and feet, and bigger people can have smaller hands and feet. People are so mixed/interbred more now most likely anyway that even if the small hands, feet, skull theory is true it is not as prevalent as before probably. There is a theory that when population densities become higher the beings get smaller.
I don’t know about that last one - places like Manhattan or other dense metro area’s would be enough to prove that wrong…
But no doubt - these theory’s are very interesting and thought provoking