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Viewers of "60 Minutes" saw a brief glimpse of Calverton's future Sunday.
The venerable television newsmagazine featured Dubai's indoor ski mountain, similar to the one recently approved by Riverhead Town for the Enterprise Park at Calverton. In Dubai, the snowy slopes of the eccentric recreation destination for the Middle Eastern elite seems out of place with the searing desert outside; in Calverton, officials are hoping, they will be a great fit.
Thor Degelmann has skied in Dubai, among other places. Degelmann, chief executive of Leisure Entertainment Development & Operations International, is part of the Riverhead Resorts team planning the Calverton mountain. The manmade snow coating the slopes at Ski Dubai is great, he said, climate control producing a worthy approximation of Colorado powder - exactly what Calverton skiers should expect when their mountain opens sometime around Christmas 2012.
Dubai is hardly the only...