Old Lift Tickets

[ALLSKIING]

Like most I used to do this as a kid but now I cut them off at the end of the day.

 

[drjeff]

I learned my lesson when I was in 6th grade. I had an "impresive" collection of about 20 tickets on my coat zipper pocket. Too much stress on that YKK piece of metal. It broke. I lost all 20

Now, whenever i'm skiing in a situation where I need a ticket and a wicket, it gets cut off at the end of the day

 

[o3jeff]

Not Elk, or Platty.

Magic still uses them and I think Berkshire East too.

 

[dmc]

Not Elk, or Platty.

save 'em up...

 

[Bostonian]

Magic still uses them and I think Berkshire East too.

Add Nashoba to the list too.

 

[Abominable]

Add Nashoba to the list too.

And somewhere I was this year, maybe Sunday River, uses 'em, which I though odd for a bigger 'resort' type of place, and they said they went back to them from the zip ties, due to cost or something, can't remember why.

 

[Riverskier]

And somewhere I was this year, maybe Sunday River, uses 'em, which I though odd for a bigger 'resort' type of place, and they said they went back to them from the zip ties, due to cost or something, can't remember why.

Sunday River did go back to sticky tickets. I never officially heard why, but always figured it was to prevent transferring tickets. With the zip ties, you could easily transfer a ticket as many times as you wanted.

 

[gmcunni]

Sunday River did go back to sticky tickets. I never officially heard why, but always figured it was to prevent transferring tickets. With the zip ties, you could easily transfer a ticket as many times as you wanted.

wire hangers (which apparently Crotched still use) are no deterrent to transfer for someone who plans to do it. if i wanted to transfer my ticket (which i don't do) i'd remove it from the ring ( as i do at the end of the day anyway), carry a 1 cent zip tie and hand it over as part of the transaction

 

[sugarbushskier]

Had a stack of tickets from many trips across US/CA that I was saving for years and finally decided to do something with them. In my office (man cave?) I took a 1.5 inch by 10 foot piece of wood and nailed it to the top of one of the walls and put nails every 6 or 7 inches apart. Now I simply hang the various tickets from the nails. It's interesting to see which nails are full due to multiple trips to that area. The idea may seem corny, but I have to admit it looks awesome! It's time to add another piece of wood to another wall and add new areas.

 

[Abominable]

Had a stack of tickets from many trips across US/CA that I was saving for years and finally decided to do something with them. In my office (man cave?) I took a 1.5 inch by 10 foot piece of wood and nailed it to the top of one of the walls and put nails every 6 or 7 inches apart. Now I simply hang the various tickets from the nails. It's interesting to see which nails are full due to multiple trips to that area. The idea may seem corny, but I have to admit it looks awesome! It's time to add another piece of wood to another wall and add new areas.

Cool idea. You could even put a trail map for each area above each nail.

Wife's idea - Christmas tree ornaments.

 

[Nick]

wire hangers (which apparently Crotched still use) are no deterrent to transfer for someone who plans to do it. if i wanted to transfer my ticket (which i don't do) i'd remove it from the ring ( as i do at the end of the day anyway), carry a 1 cent zip tie and hand it over as part of the transaction

Yeah but it's more of a pain and requires planning ahead of time... more so at least than using a wicket.

 

[gmcunni]

Yeah but it's more of a pain and requires planning ahead of time... more so at least than using a wicket.

i started using the key ring when i had a season pass that i needed to take off for the occasional wash or when i skied another mountain. now that i day trip i use it because it makes ticket removal easier for both ziptie or wire wicket.

 

[sugarbushskier]

Trail maps (at least some) went into a corkboard type picture frame. There's no rime or reason to the organization, but it also looks pretty great in the office. Centered on the wall is a large framed MRG trail map, other ski poster memoribilia and about 7 or 8 framed Gary Patterson ski drawings. Sounds busy, but it's really not although it can be distracting when I'm trying to work...>

 

[billski]

wire hangers (which apparently Crotched still use) are no deterrent to transfer for someone who plans to do it. if i wanted to transfer my ticket (which i don't do) i'd remove it from the ring ( as i do at the end of the day anyway), carry a 1 cent zip tie and hand it over as part of the transaction

Removable ticket "violations" will become a thing of the past with the adoption of RFID cards. Even those areas that have paper tickets are beginning to offer "mom and dad" tickets, The price of one, one skier on the slope at a time.. This presumes the lift ticket scanner hits every skier, but he doesn't. Better to have mom and dad than no mom and dad.

 

[billski]

I began throwing them away when they started sprouting all over the house. The only ones I kept are the hand-written ones from Northeast Slopes and Otis Ridge.

What I kick myself for no doing was to save old trail maps. I like looking at how an area has changed its mountain footprint over time.

 

[snowmonster]

I have all the lift tickets I ever used since February 5, 2005 filed in a drawer at my work desk.

 

[steamboat1]

wire hangers (which apparently Crotched still use) are no deterrent to transfer for someone who plans to do it. if i wanted to transfer my ticket (which i don't do) i'd remove it from the ring ( as i do at the end of the day anyway), carry a 1 cent zip tie and hand it over as part of the transaction

I've seen ticket checkers on more than one occasion make the person go back to the ticket window to get a new ticket & make the person affix the ticket to the jacket without using the ring. If they refused they weren't allowed to ride the lift.

 

[WWF-VT]

I cut them off and throw them away

 

[gmcunni]

I've seen ticket checkers on more than one occasion make the person go back to the ticket window to get a new ticket & make the person affix the ticket to the jacket without using the ring. If they refused they weren't allowed to ride the lift.

do you recall where? i've had this for 3 or 4 years and never had an issue. in my case the ticket is on my pants and shows just below the jacket or i might have to lift the bottom of my jacket to show them, i'd bet they never see the ring (not that i'm intentionally hiding it)

 

[dmc]

theft of service... it's a big deal...