Very well done! I like the message as I came from an area in Northern California that was priced out by people with disposable incomes. I have been to this place in the video and immediately fell in love with the Valley and the Locals. I hope it stays affordable for the locals.
This is such an important story. Thank you to Josh and Derek for telling it. Come for the thought provoking narrative, stay for the insane ski footage! It's like a Warren Miller film!
Cool story, great video! Great you are trying to stay out front on this. I live in a state that has high everything for a long time. Don't forget how important it is to protect your dark sky space as well.
It's a tricky situation, and I don't think the wealth disparity solely affects locals. While the Ikon and Epic passes have made skiing multiple trips more affordable for ski vacationers, hotel/airbnb rates or lesson rates if needed for beginners/kids have exploded upwards. Generally in the past, ski town adjacent towns like Basalt or Avon provided more affordable options to stay or live, but even these have become expensive. Potentially, the lack of new ski resorts the last 30 years have caused a funneling effect, or the lack of willingness to build combined with underutilized second homes has caused prices to soar without providing new housing options to offset prices.
Nice bc film. Somehow I got the impression that this would highlight how unaffordable mountain towns are becoming, but I didn't see much about that topic.🤔
The average home value has skyrocketed in this community over the past 10 years, esp. during COVID. Combine that with the plague of landlords converting long term rental properties into Air B n B's and it is becoming nearly impossible for workers to find or afford housing in a town that depends on tourists and seasonal labor. The community is implementing a Housing Action Plan in order to address the issue of increasingly unaffordable housing.
I understand the sentiment but at the same time many of these local families moved to the towns in the 80s or some other boom and started developing the towns into what they are now.
The solution to holiday homes etc in ski/mountain towns is simple: exorbitant property taxes on houses that are unoccupied. Municipalities could also have percentage profit caps on housing sales. There’s al sorts of tools available but there has to be the will on city councils and with the enormous influence of realtors etc, that’s not like to happen without locals getting involved in local government and working towards these changes. Great, make a ski-bro movie about it. That won’t change shit. Gotta get involved and that’s going to cut into the ski time.
SO good!! GO DEREK!! Great message as well. 👏👏
Such a great film and message. Nice work tying it all together
Fantastic Film! Keep up the good work!
Very well done! I like the message as I came from an area in Northern California that was priced out by people with disposable incomes. I have been to this place in the video and immediately fell in love with the Valley and the Locals. I hope it stays affordable for the locals.
Love the drone shots. Super duper cool
Such an honor and blessing to be a part of such a cool project🙏🏼
Great work guys. We have seen many towns with skiing turn into ski towns then smothered with second home buyers around here. It's a tough balance.
Y'all are sick. I'm a tourist that visits towns and nothing better than going into a bar and partying with locals. Keep up the work
This is such an important story. Thank you to Josh and Derek for telling it. Come for the thought provoking narrative, stay for the insane ski footage! It's like a Warren Miller film!
Cool story, great video! Great you are trying to stay out front on this. I live in a state that has high everything for a long time. Don't forget how important it is to protect your dark sky space as well.
What a great video and love the narrative! ❤
Oscar worthy
Great video all around. FPV shots are dope, must've been cold as hell on the fingers.
@@precisionsightdrones oh man it was a tough few days for sure!
It's a tricky situation, and I don't think the wealth disparity solely affects locals. While the Ikon and Epic passes have made skiing multiple trips more affordable for ski vacationers, hotel/airbnb rates or lesson rates if needed for beginners/kids have exploded upwards. Generally in the past, ski town adjacent towns like Basalt or Avon provided more affordable options to stay or live, but even these have become expensive. Potentially, the lack of new ski resorts the last 30 years have caused a funneling effect, or the lack of willingness to build combined with underutilized second homes has caused prices to soar without providing new housing options to offset prices.
Nice bc film. Somehow I got the impression that this would highlight how unaffordable mountain towns are becoming, but I didn't see much about that topic.🤔
The average home value has skyrocketed in this community over the past 10 years, esp. during COVID. Combine that with the plague of landlords converting long term rental properties into Air B n B's and it is becoming nearly impossible for workers to find or afford housing in a town that depends on tourists and seasonal labor. The community is implementing a Housing Action Plan in order to address the issue of increasingly unaffordable housing.
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I understand the sentiment but at the same time many of these local families moved to the towns in the 80s or some other boom and started developing the towns into what they are now.
Yeah exactly. They moved there and built communities. They didn’t buy a second home and let sit empty for 95% of the year
DEREK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The solution to holiday homes etc in ski/mountain towns is simple: exorbitant property taxes on houses that are unoccupied.
Municipalities could also have percentage profit caps on housing sales.
There’s al sorts of tools available but there has to be the will on city councils and with the enormous influence of realtors etc, that’s not like to happen without locals getting involved in local government and working towards these changes.
Great, make a ski-bro movie about it. That won’t change shit.
Gotta get involved and that’s going to cut into the ski time.