RCR Customer Dissatisfaction Demonstrations

You might just be asked to leave if you demonstrate on private property?

http://www.cupe.bc.ca/pdfs/020308c.pdf

perhaps.. but its worth a shot.

But in Lake Louise its not private property.. it is national park.

I think the Louise Day Protest will be the most effective! AND WE GET TO SKI FOR FREE!

I for one agree with the initiative and think that if we can get enough people to follow suit we'll be able to make some waves.

We need to make sure people are informed as to why we are protesting and what it is that we are trying to achieve through this.

I'm volunteering my time and vehicles for this one, come one come all!!!

Ryland, exactly what is your area of expertise? surely it must be the ski industry! The way you talk I'm surprised rcr hasn't asked you to take over and show em how its done!!! I think you've still got your knickers in a twist over the seasons pass incident, I still say they should ban you for life.

And Mr Murray Edwards, the owner of the ski hill - he's what exactly? Oh yeah, an oil tycoon. Last time I looked, snow and oil - not such a great mix.

If you go to a restaurant and get a crappy meal or crappy service or you think their prices are to high, are you gonna start a protest in front of their business too? Probably not, you just wouldn't go back! Right???

I don't agree with a lot of things RCR does either, but that still doesn't give me the right to try to tell them how they should be running things. I'm not sticking up for them by no means, but it is their business and they can run it as they see fit weather we agree or not.

Think it over hard Ryland. When you got banned you suck holed and kissed butt big time to get your lift privileges back. Do you really think if you get axed again they will EVER let you back??

It's like a restaurant or bar or any other business, if you don't like the place then don't patronize them.

If big oil companies pollute the environment do people picket, or do they just stop using oil? Think about it...Greenpeace?

Once you get into the realms of big business, simply boycotting doesn't have any impact. RCR are at the point where their media machine can keep enough people coming from new sources to not worry about what the locals think.

It doesn't mean though that we should just sit back and take it. If that was the case then we wouldn't be seeing this big interest in CBM and the Clearview evictions that are forefront in everyone's minds right now. Okay, so CBM extraction is an environmental issue but how do you clarify the difference? Is social responsibility not just as important? If not, then really you would have to agree that the Clearview evictions were acceptable because the owners of the property were quite within their legal rights to do what they did - whether it was ethical or moral is a whole different story.

RCR has a responsibility to run the mountain ethically and not just with the bottom line in mind. Skiing & boarding is a passtime/sport/hobby that is integral to the wellbeing of this community, not just as a means of recreation, but also as a livelihood through all the offshoot businesses & support systems that are required. When RCR took on the management of the mountain, they didn't just take on a business, they took on stewardship of something that is very important to the people of this valley.

Perpetual mismanagement and smoke and mirrors media tactics should not be acceptable in any big business and we have every right to speak our minds.

Ryland deserves praise for being the first scrawny kid to have the nerve to speak up to the school bully, I'm sure he's perfectly aware of the potential consequences and it takes guts to go ahead and do this anyway. And as far as getting kicked off the property at FAR is concerned, well, the highway at the bottom of the mountain isn't private is it?
BTW, welcome back freeheels, we haven't heard from you in a while!

Seems to me alba and ryland have got to be two of the most presumptious people on the planet.It's as if you imagine your representative of this community as a whole. CBM and clearview evictions on the forefront of everyones minds right now!(My kids and my home are on the forefront of my mind)Running a ski hill ethically?????? what the hell does that mean?

Comparing rylands childish efforts to those of greenpeace? Alba did you ski into any trees last year?

The first scrawny kid to stand up to the school bully?
I would cut your dosage in half alba.

Stewardship of something that is very important to this valley.
Alba you should be a spin doctor.

Steve, personal attacks are not called for.

If you disagree with someone's point of view then fine, but you would do well to explain your own position before attacking others.

Steve, I think it's a bit hypocritical for you to accuse someone of "representing a community" and then go off to state how CBM and clearview are on the forefront of everyone's mind. I think your trailing a bit off topic on this one.

Obviously such a huge company as RCR will draw people to complain. On top of this, it's not like another business where you can just stop buying from them, and switch to their competition. There isn't another ski hill in the area to give us the option of what to support.

I for one feel that I have been misled by them with the recent decisions to terminate the terrain park at all resorts. To me this is false advertising in many ways. I have spent many years working for free with ski resorts to help them improve their terrain parks. One ski hill in particular got a good review because of their terrain park in the SBC Resort Guide 2008 magazine. I was very disappointed to hear the decision made by RCR. It was the most ignorant and disrespectful announcement I have ever heard in the industry.

So now I am left up to a decision, try and get my money back and put it into a snowmobile? I really don't want to be supporting a company that makes a decision like this, but on the other hand I have no other resorts to snowboard at this season that are close to fernie.