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October 8, 2002
Buy your own remote ski lodge
CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (AP) -- Colorado's largest backcountry skiing lodge may not open this season. The owners are looking for a buyer.
The lodge, 12 unpaved and unplowable miles from Crested Butte, has been on the market for more than nine months and has generated many nibbles from prospective buyers, but no bites.
"It takes time to sell something like this," said David Buck, one of the so-called Irwin Ten who purchased the lodge in 1997 and pumped $1 million into it. "We're confident it will sell."
Buck's team, which has decided it will not open the lodge to guests this winter, has lowered the asking price from $3.95 million to $2.95 million.
The lodge, which includes 90 acres of private land, a lease for 2,200 acres from the Forest Service, three SnoCats and a team of renowned ski guides, was appraised at $4.56 million.
"It's definitely for an adventurous type of buyer," said real estate agent Shea McWilliams of Coldwell Banker in Crested Butte.
Access to the rustic lodge is limited to snowmobiles in winter. In summer, the lodge is a popular spot for wedding parties and family reunions.
The lodge was built in 1976 by a Texas oil magnate. There's an 8,000-square-foot great room, a full-service kitchen and bar and 24 guest rooms. The Irwin valley, bounded by the Anthracite and Ruby mountain ranges, receives an average of 600 inches of snow every year, almost double that of Crested Butte down the road.