 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sounds like a great place - having visited some other places like it, you get a great experience 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ALQ, Been a gentle thought wandering through the forum for at least 8 years . . . it is possible that we are approaching critical mass for crowd-funding. What has to be understood is that buying is one thing . . . running with a profit is another 
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Good point. Sponsorship? A JV with SKGB (they could sell the white house for seed money)?
I think we have the talent on here; but can it be harnessed?
It would be a most excellent venture.
If you build it...they will come
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ALQ, the real ? is . . . where? . . . to build it . . . and . . . 'what' to build? Find the mountain that serves all the desires voiced here and we may be on to something . . . Though it may not be on this planet
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i am still working on the snowHeads retirement home where you purchase a resort friendly room with staff.... and sell it on when you can no longer ski.
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Several years back (8 or so??) there was an Italian resort put up for sale. It was mentioned on sH and there were, even back then, quite a number interested in putting up money toward buying it. So not as daft an idea as it sounds, but same concern then as now - once bought, how does it pay for itself ?
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| austin7 wrote: |
| ...once bought, how does it pay for itself ? |
Hmmm...the million dollar question! Would make for an interesting study of workable business models.
Need to get an idea of costs first though. Do you have a link to that italian resort thread?
Or know any cool, ski-nut millionaires?
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Run it as the snowHeads Resort School teaching all the resort skills like 'the 5 minute Spag Bol' technique for chalet tarts who forgot to fall out of the bar on time . . . Pistbasher driving lessons . . . Fill the place with interns, indentured and self financing staff.
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it would be a lot cheaper to manage if we idle piste skiers took a leaf out of the book of the ski-tourers and learnt to get ourselves up the mountain.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| austin7 wrote: |
| Several years back (8 or so??) there was an Italian resort put up for sale. It was mentioned on sH and there were, even back then, quite a number interested in putting up money toward buying it. So not as daft an idea as it sounds, but same concern then as now - once bought, how does it pay for itself ? |
And, as a follow-up point, who would run it?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I don't get why you would invest cash into a resort and then run it on a not-for-profit basis.
Why would you subsidise other people's skiing?
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There are several English resorts that rely on volunteers, so why not help out one of them?
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You know it makes sense.
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James the Last, 'cos that's what some people who like to share a love of life do . . . some people don't understand how they are supposed to live as a person.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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This is pretty much how the club fields run in NZ, isn't it? Sounds pretty good to me.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Richard_Sideways, any links for more info??
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| ....major benefits such as on-snow accommodation, uncrowded slopes, no lift queues, and cheap lift tickets. The likelihood of fresh tracks on a powder day (or the next day) is much higher than at the commercial resorts. |
Hmmm....might work 
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James the Last. We work our back bottoms off to get the readies to go skiing at some resort where fat cats are trying to get a financial return on their investment. If I owned a chunk of a ski area, what would I do with the financial return on my investment ? go skiing ? I already could.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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thirty06, I fear the negative financial return is likely to consume all your spending money long before you get to the slopes.
The other big problem is that for Terrace the owners were the residents, not residents of other countries. It's a lovely romantic idea, but I do struggle to see the point of it unless it is s serious financial investment with competitive returns.
A friend of my parents was one if the three(?) original founders and shareholders in Meribel Alpina, the firm that I believes operates the resort. It was great to see him walk up to the lift pass kiosk, greet the man behind the counter as an old friend and just scoop up as many season passes as he felt like without paying a penny. 
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thirty06, do you really have *no* other desires and pleasures in life other than skiing? If you won £10m on the lottery, would you not develop some other expensive habit?
I'm also not sure why you refer to 'fat cats'. At about £4.50 an hour (for the time it's open), being in a ski domaine is cheaper (per hour) than being on the tube, let alone an intercity train. Manchester to London is about 2.5 hours, and if you book weeks in advance for a time nobody wants to travel, you might manage a £12 ticket. If you want to go when you turn up at the station, expect to pay multiple times that.
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