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Spencer Christensen

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329 total appearances

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Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

It has...

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

Obviously trade a hand several times.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

And when I came upon it, it was the main lodge was in was really nice and was new.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

But the the buildings were very old and run down.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

And it's like this is a really cool place.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

It would be awesome to have somebody that could run it and could build it.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

and could like bring it forth in like all of its glory.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

The mountains really, it's kind of tough to run a lodge in those situations.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

The reason I mentioned earlier that it was the highest lodge in the continental United States that's open year round is the difficulty of running a lodge in an area that gets so much snow.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

Yeah.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

So we get, on average, about 400 inches of snowfall per year.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

There's like 30 to 40 feet of accumulation.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

And obviously very cold.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

And so there's just a lot of operational challenges when you have that much snow that, I mean, six months out of the year, it's just snow, snow, snow, snow, snow.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

And we run year round.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

Yeah, that's probably a very good way to express it.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

I mean, just to show up, just the amount of snow removal and the amount of other maintenance that needs to go into the operations, whether it's keeping the cabins unfrozen, whether it's keeping power to them, and all the other things that go along with running in a very, basically a very inhospitable place.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

Wow.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

I mean, that much snow, very cold.

Living The Red Life
From Bankrupt to Mountain Empire Builder

You've got other issues too.