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Does any one know of any cat ski operations in BC that are potentially for sale? Got some rich friends and we wanna live the dream lol.. Long shot I know but if you don't ask in this life you don't get..
Just curious about their definition of "living the dream."
Little cat ops are dying left and right. A low snowpack year can ruin a company that has paid $100K-350K for each cat, a sales team, marketing team, mechanic team, solid avi guy, some guides, permit costs, and a metric shit ton of insurance - not counting any lodging/cooking/managing costs.
I'm sure you know what you're getting into, but wouldn't it be a lot easier and cheaper to spend 3 or 5 years and blow $100K chasing storms around North America?
HolteJust curious about their definition of "living the dream."
Little cat ops are dying left and right. A low snowpack year can ruin a company that has paid $100K-350K for each cat, a sales team, marketing team, mechanic team, solid avi guy, some guides, permit costs, and a metric shit ton of insurance - not counting any lodging/cooking/managing costs.
I'm sure you know what you're getting into, but wouldn't it be a lot easier and cheaper to spend 3 or 5 years and blow $100K chasing storms around North America?
Nah I want a catski opp .. It would simply be amazing
Golden Alpine Holidays has been for sale recently. I know nobody bought it. It doesn't seem to be for sale right now but with an offer, maybe. It's the series of lodges that are heli in and ski tour from. Hoji and Abma have been filming there for years.
They are asking $2.7M CDN - 3 Snow cats, 18,000 Acres, 500in snow. 12,000 sq ft lodge.
here's a a peak at some of the terrain.
2.7 million for an established operation that includes 18,000 acres of land and a 12,000 ft2 lodge seems fishy. The land alone is easily worth that, provided it's not in bum fuck nowhere northern BC.
VinnieF2.7 million for an established operation that includes 18,000 acres of land and a 12,000 ft2 lodge seems fishy. The land alone is easily worth that, provided it's not in bum fuck nowhere northern BC.
You won't own the actual land. It is tenured from the government. Maybe, if your lucky, you will own the land that the building is on.
The link to Golden Alpine Holidays I posted earlier has a lodge called Sentry, I built it. That is the only one of 4 lodges in which the owners own the land under the building. They lobbied hard to buy that land because the building itself cost 1.2 mil and they wouldn't invest that much on tenured land.
hemlockjibber8You won't own the actual land. It is tenured from the government. Maybe, if your lucky, you will own the land that the building is on.
The link to Golden Alpine Holidays I posted earlier has a lodge called Sentry, I built it. That is the only one of 4 lodges in which the owners own the land under the building. They lobbied hard to buy that land because the building itself cost 1.2 mil and they wouldn't invest that much on tenured land.
Do you know of any other cat opps for sale? Mr Hemlockjibber? Great Northern looks perfect but the more options the better..
