Parking lot Shenanigans

[gmcunni]

is the clock on the server off? posted @ 11:02 PM

yeah, it is off 30+ minutes slow.

 

[snoseek]

Disclaimer: I'm close with someone who works there and we're not talking about a struggling hill here. Gunstock punches above its weight as a 4 season business.

I trust this statement coming from you. As I know it its always been a money maker....county would lease if otherwise and operators would line up for it in a minute

 

[deadheadskier]

And you still get crappy parking?

 

[gmcunni]

BTW, how was the skiing today?

 

[Morwax]

And you still get crappy parking?

Wait what happened to the numbers .. you know you said it was always running in the black?

 

[steamboat1]

I thought this thread was going to be about partying or stupid things people do in the parking lot.
Not whining about having to walk to a lift

Would've been a hell of a lot more interesting.

Instead we get.

 

[Morwax]

Would've been a hell of a lot more interesting.

Instead we get.

FO then .. we dont need your smarm everywhere

 

[deadheadskier]

Wait what happened to the numbers .. you know you said it was always running in the black?

My sources at this stage of the evening probably aren't too much better than yours. And let's recap what your sources were; a couple of newspaper articles outlining a couple of seasons in recent years where the mountain needed a loan. Unless I missed something, it wasn't data supporting Gunstock as a leach on taxpayers for the past 25 years like you claimed.

My sources are I was a passholder there for a couple of seasons. I got to know several people in management. I skied with many long time local supporters, some who were county employees. I still ski up there most seasons and live not too far to the south in NH and peruse the local news up there frequently. Hell, I even got married in Laconia, so I'm not all that out of touch with the area. NEVER ONCE has anyone I have ever come across said the ski area was a cash drain for taxpayers. Never once. You are the first. And I chatted longtime locals up all the time on the subject because I fully expected people to be pro-lease because there's a strong pro-lease contingent up at Cannon. I've skied with management and asked there perspective too. The batting average of public opinion is near 1000 that Gunstock is the little engine that could.....great little business that the county benefits greatly from.

If I've been wrong all these years based upon the exposure I've had.....so be it. I'm not ruling out that possibility. It would just be really weird. Like finding out at 39 years old that I'm actually left handed. Could happen.

But, let's just say I am 100% wrong. Gunstock loses money hand over fist. Those greedy bastards are shaking down your grandmother for snowmaking money.

What this thread comes back to is you being upset about a parking spot and escalating that distress to protest your tax payments. Think about that the next time you're driving to work instead of to the mountain where somedays (not all) you might have to walk 500 feet to the lift.

 

[Morwax]

Keep wiggling as I find the documents.

My sources at this stage of the evening probably aren't too much better than yours. And let's recap what your sources were; a couple of newspaper articles outlining a couple of seasons in recent years where the mountain needed a loan. Unless I missed something, it wasn't data supporting Gunstock as a leach on taxpayers for the past 25 years like you claimed.

My sources are I was a passholder there for a couple of seasons. I got to know several people in management. I skied with many long time local supporters, some who were county employees. I still ski up there most seasons and live not too far to the south in NH and peruse the local news up there frequently. Hell, I even got married in Laconia, so I'm not all that out of touch with the area. NEVER ONCE has anyone I have ever come across said the ski area was a cash drain for taxpayers. Never once. You are the first. And I chatted longtime locals up all the time on the subject because I fully expected people to be pro-lease because there's a strong pro-lease contingent up at Cannon. I've skied with management and asked there perspective too. The batting average of public opinion is near 1000 that Gunstock is the little engine that could.....great little business that the county benefits greatly from.

If I've been wrong all these years based upon the exposure I've had.....so be it. I'm not ruling out that possibility. It would just be really weird. Like finding out at 39 years old that I'm actually left handed. Could happen.

But, let's just say I am 100% wrong. Gunstock loses money hand over fist. Those greedy bastards are shaking down your grandmother for snowmaking money.

What this thread comes back to is you being upset about a parking spot and escalating that distress to protest your tax payments. Think about that the next time you're driving to work instead of to the mountain where somedays (not all) you might have to walk 500 feet to the lift.

 

[Morwax]

You do realize Gunstock has run in the black all but a handful of its 75 years in existence? It's a positive cash contributor to Belknap county.

Just want to keep this near the top so we dont forget what we are talking about .. ya you can try and call me whiny ... thats what this sight is all about

 

[snoseek]

*site*

 

[deadheadskier]

Just want to keep this near the top so we dont forget what we are talking about .. ya you can try and call me whiny ... thats what this sight is all about

excellent work. thank you

 

[Morwax]

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100703/GJNEWS02/707039945

 

[steamboat1]

Just want to keep this near the top so we dont forget what we are talking about .. ya you can try and call me whiny ... thats what this sight is all about

If the shoe fits.

 

[Edd]

Just want to keep this near the top so we dont forget what we are talking about .. ya you can try and call me whiny ... thats what this sight is all about

I'm seriously reluctant to get into it, but, as it's been stated, you started this thread about parking and its morphed into the financial viability of Gunstock. Seems weird.

 

[Morwax]

Im still looking for the numbers where they have borrowed and borrowed again going back to the seventies.. The we are profitable BS is only what you hear from the renters.. err I mean management

 

[Morwax]

I'm seriously reluctant to get into it, but, as it's been stated, you started this thread about parking and its morphed into the financial viability of Gunstock. Seems weird.

Oh well then should we continue the conversation about parking.. seems odd that a conversation cant evolve.. then again this is TGR right

 

[Morwax]

If the shoe fits.

Are you a moron or something go away if you cant contribute anything besides childish comments!

 

[deadheadskier]

TGR???

wait? where am I?

 

[Morwax]

LOL its on there own site http://www.gunstock.com/about/