posted 01/20/12 10:23 PM | updated 01/21/12 10:22 PM
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BOGUS BASIN --  Skiers and boarders have certainly rejoiced this week with all the snow coming down in the mountains.  Bogus Basin needed the snow desperately, opening just Thursday for a record late start.

"We had a good day yesterday, and a good day today.  We expect it to be even better tomorrow," Bogus Basin spokeswoman Gretchen Anderson said.

Paycuts still in effect and CEO, CFO still going unpaid 

With the late opening day, Bogus Basin's general manager told KTVB last week they've already lost over $2 million in revenue.  While getting the lifts going and seeing skiers coming down the mountain is a step toward a needed financial comeback, can they recoup the loss?

"I don't know.  I don't know.  We'll have to find out at the very end, Jamie. It's an interesting situation that we're facing because we've never faced this before.  A lot of us took pay cuts.  A lot of us were laid off for a while.  Then of course, our CEO and our CFO didn't take any salary and kept working," Anderson said.

The pay cuts are still in effect for full-time staff, and the CEO and CFO are still unpaid.  They plan to remain unpaid until they've 'turned this ship around'.

Concerns about season pass sales

"The one thing that we're concerned about is that we have a robust season pass sale which is next month, and that's looming large in front of us.  And we want to make sure that everyone has a good time skiing and riding up until that point, and they want to buy another season pass," Anderson said.

Bogus Basin hopes people remember the early pre-Thanksgiving start they had last season and will take the gamble with mother nature again for next season.

"When you buy a season pass at $200, you know that you'll get some good seasons and you may not get some great seasons," Anderson said.

Bogus could lengthen the season

Typically Bogus closes in April, Anderson says mostly because people stop skiing, they're onto spring sports.

"They're on the golf courses and soccer fields and that sort of thing.  So it just doesn't pay for us to stay open. But we realize and totally understand the feeling that people want an extra-long season now, so we're hoping to figure out what we can do there," Anderson said.

Bogus managers are currently considering keeping the mountain open for extra weekends in April, but that's still to be determined.

All lifts, slopes open Saturday for day skiing

 

As of Friday, Anderson said the snow has settled into a good base, and with 40 inches, there's plenty of snow.  The snow is so good she said, the whole mountain will be open Saturday morning at 9 a.m..  That will include running the new $5 million dollar lift.

The only thing to wait for now is night skiing, which starts next Wednesday, January 25th.  The date for tubing to start hasn't been decided.

 

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