Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Tour on Ragged Top Mountain Alaska

27 Mar 2009 · 2 min

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The video captures an informal, multi‑person conversation among five speakers (A‑E) during a tour on Ragged Top Mountain, Alaska. The dialogue weaves through several topics: participants express enthusiasm for skiing and discuss taking extra days to ski more; they bring up dock passes, suggesting potential access to waterfront facilities; a substantial portion of the talk centers on local real‑estate dynamics, including who currently lives in nearby houses, how long they have resided there, and the possibility of purchasing neighboring property. The speakers mention strategic motivations such as gaining neighbor control and leveraging inherited estate funds for reinvestment. The overall tone is casual and speculative, reflecting community‑level considerations about recreation, access rights, and property ownership.

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I do like skiing a lot.
No, it means you have to take off another day. So you can ski the area some more.
That's true, that's true.
Although, no, I mean like on some level, if Mark actually is coming here, maybe you should steal it.
No, he wants it.
But we also have dock passes, um, that he could potentially get and hold up as well.
A dock pass? Really? No kidding.
He and I both skied on one of those last year.
Right?
Mhm.
Cool.
I mean, somebody buys walrus.
Yeah, but I mean you.
How long have you lived here?
Almost 2 years.
Do you own it? That's sweet.
She will.
It's a nice place.
You will own it?
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe.
Who owns it?
Do I have anything to do with it?
The guy behind us.
Where I can see?
Yeah.
I lived in his house for 2 years.
2 and a half years? Is he a nice guy?
Yeah, he's a good one.
Yeah, I might buy it one of these days.
Does he want to sell it or?
Um, no, but he would sell it to me.
He already has a house. Come on, how many houses do you need?
What's that?
He already has a house. How many houses does he need?
It's more about neighbor control.
Neighbor control.
Is it pretty close? It's really close to his house?
If you look out the back windows right there, he owns this whole property.
He bought this place more recently, but he'd known the owner forever and knew what he paid for it.
What he needed to pay him a fair price for it, I guess is the best way to put it.
But he had some money from his parents' estate when they died that he had to Reinvest.
So he's done clever things with it.
Yeah. But if you own all the land around your house, you can control who lives there and who doesn't, who builds what.