and gary hickok stood up, and he was not a member of the activist community at all. and he said. - i said, "one of these days you're gonna have some grandkids. and 20, 30 years down the road, they're gonna come home for christmas vacation. they're going to bring their roommate, and they're going to come driving into the telluride valley. your grandson's roommate is going to see this valley floor and go, 'how did that happen? how is that possible that that property is open space?' and your grandson's gonna say, 'well, 20 years ago, a bunch of people got together and decided that they wanted to protect that valley and they purchased it. and my grandpa supported that and worked with them, or, well, and my grandpa was opposed to that and he really wanted to see a bunch of houses out there.' what do you want your grandson to say?" - and he said, "okay, telluride folks, this is the valley floor that we're talking about, this is the ditch we need to die in. we can't accept a compromise.