'14-'15 passes

[mister moose]

Can't believe this crowd hasn't mentioned Sundown yet.

2014-2015 season passes are on sale now! They are priced at the 2013-2014 PRE-SEASON rate of $479 for Adults, $429 for Juniors, $159 for Children and $99 for Super 70. Order online, purchase at the Welcome Center or call 860.379.7669 x211 before this deal melts!

No price increase.

 

[dlague]

I saw those prices and nearly choked. That's obscene. I think the White Mountain Super Pass is bad at $950 for 4 major mountains. The Granite Pass (this year) works out to $500 after discounts for 3 mountains. Thanks for the reminder why I avoid most of Vermont.


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If you nearly choked on that check this out at Stowe! This will make you faint! Craziness!

Pass Type	On or Before 10/31	After 10/31
2 adults + 2 children	$4,331	$5,450

 

[snoseek]

What's your gripe with VR or is it more about poor snow in Tahoe? I'm thinking about retiring next year and doing two months out West/Colorado. Maybe EpicPass or RckyMtnSuperPass?

I actually have no real gripe with them, they've put out the most consistent good skiing product here for the last three running. They also have a great variety offerings here, better than their Colorado resorts IMO.

I mostly just want something just a little more low key and less touristy as I'm kinda burnt out on high speed lifts and highways of people. It's all easily avoidable but eventually you got to get down.

When I lived in Colorado I avoided Vail resorts like the plague and skied the superpass and Loveland with occasional road trips down south. I bet you have a great time despite what pass you buy out there....the epic would make for great roadtripping.

 

[MadMadWorld]

If you nearly choked on that check this out at Stowe! This will make you faint! Craziness!

Pass Type	On or Before 10/31	After 10/31
2 adults + 2 children	$4,331	$5,450

Yea that's a steal!

 

[snoseek]

May be one of those years to be in South Colorado or even New Mexico. Taos gets screwed some years but in others is supposed to be epic. El-Nino would open up the southern jet (ie good for New Mexico). Next stop for Snoseek, Santa Fe?

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Oh how I'd like a consistent winter in NM, place is amazing, and the odds are good huh. I bet Telluride scores well too, another place that blows me away plus its close to Moab for mtb.

But yeah, elnino+taos, solid idea

 

[jimk]

"dlague: If you nearly choked on that check this out at Stowe! This will make you faint! Craziness!
Pass Type On or Before 10/31 After 10/31
2 adults + 2 children $4,331 / $5,450"

Just watched Bridge on the River Kwai. Last three words in the screenplay after everybody dies are: madness...madness...madness! :-?
I think I can do two months in CO including pass and condo rental for considerably less than that smaller number.

 

[4aprice]

Oh how I'd like a consistent winter in NM, place is amazing, and the odds are good huh. I bet Telluride scores well too, another place that blows me away plus its close to Moab for mtb.

But yeah, elnino+taos, solid idea

Will love following your adventures. One of these days I'll be out there cruising the western highways picking off ski areas right and left. Got many the safari out of Denver and Salt Lake planned out on my maps and in my mind.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[snoseek]

Will love following your adventures. One of these days I'll be out there cruising the western highways picking off ski areas right and left. Got many the safari out of Denver and Salt Lake planned out on my maps and in my mind.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

I suggest one of these:http://www.skimonarch.com/tickets-and-passes/season-passes


it sells for under 400 if you buy in the fall, scroll down to see all the benefits, awesome value for the skiing beatnik. You could put together a really cheap trip to so many different areas using this in conjunction with Hotwire or priceline.

 

[Smellytele]

Oh how I'd like a consistent winter in NM, place is amazing, and the odds are good huh. I bet Telluride scores well too, another place that blows me away plus its close to Moab for mtb.

But yeah, elnino+taos, solid idea

Taos this year had been a little lean but I just got lucky and hit it on an 18"+ day Sunday. The place is fun with some nasty steep stuff and some nice open bowls and fun trees. Wolf Creek was pretty good as well. They got 37" in 2 days. Some of the flats there were a pain but the bowls and short steep sections were fun.

 

[AdironRider]

I actually have no real gripe with them, they've put out the most consistent good skiing product here for the last three running. They also have a great variety offerings here, better than their Colorado resorts IMO.

I mostly just want something just a little more low key and less touristy as I'm kinda burnt out on high speed lifts and highways of people. It's all easily avoidable but eventually you got to get down.

When I lived in Colorado I avoided Vail resorts like the plague and skied the superpass and Loveland with occasional road trips down south. I bet you have a great time despite what pass you buy out there....the epic would make for great roadtripping.

I would argue Jackson but you wont ski untracked after 11. Pretty much any resort with decent terrain falls into that bucket.

 

[farlep99]

I would argue Jackson but you wont ski untracked after 11. Pretty much any resort with decent terrain falls into that bucket.

Unless said resort is in Montana

 

[yeggous]

Wildcat / Attitash passes go on sale Saturday but still no word on prices. Don't know how to interpret this. Either they are still arguing internally with Peak Resorts, or they are going to raise prices. I have their new slogan if they do: less snow, more money.


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[deadheadskier]

Ragged's Pass at $449 is a really good deal considering the Jay and Pat's partnership and the 4 buddy passes. Surprised the partnership isn't with Burke. It would seem Jay doesn't need the extra skiers as much as Burke does. I'd consider this pass if I knew they were replacing the Spear lift. At that price, I wouldn't think that's likely.

- Ski or ride the rest of the 2014 season for FREE!
- Early load 8:00 AM on the Six Pack (weekends and holidays)
- 50% off lift tickets at Jay Peak, VT and Pat’s Peak Resort includes the remainder of 2014 season and all of the 2014/2015 season. Purchase a lift ticket for 50%-off the regular listed rate any day of the week including holidays (not to be combined with any other offers), when you show your Ragged Mountain Season Pass.(Saturday Night POP Tickets at Pats Peak are not included in this offer.)
- 4 Friends and Family vouchers
- 15% off Tubing Tickets
- 10% off Learning Center
- 10% off of full retail priced items in Sport Thoma Retail Shop

 

[xwhaler]

Plus Dartmouth upgrade with midweek turns at S6 and Middlebury for $499 total for the whole package.....Pretty great deal

 

[drjeff]

Wildcat / Attitash passes go on sale Saturday but still no word on prices. Don't know how to interpret this. Either they are still arguing internally with Peak Resorts, or they are going to raise prices. I have their new slogan if they do: less snow, more money.


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Option 3 is that Peak is holding off as long as they can, since last year they announced "earlier" than most other major resort passes and then frankly got trumped by a few better price points and options from other mountains. My guess would be that they have their "Plan A" for pass prices already determined and are just hoping that someone else will go first so they can see how their "plan A" stacks up against others and if needed, quickly implement "plan B" pricing instead of "plan A"

I gotta think that heading into the last couple of weekends were one can reasonably expect to still draw sizeable crowds, that many resorts are just itching to get their next years passes on sale to try and capture some sales now, while the snow is still very good and people, who might be on the fence about getting a pass or not for next season have that great vision of the snowsurface in their minds. Now that in the last few seasons there's been a greater amount of creativity and value in many pass options, resorts want to likely wait and see what their competition might be doing more so than a few years ago when it seemed as if the pass market had become a bit more predictable for a few years after the ASC "crazy pass price point" era

 

[yeggous]

Called Wildcat today. They confirmed prices will be going up but would not give a price. They said the increase "will be small enough that you won't care".

Wildcat: less snow for more money, but you don't care.


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[Tin]

Called Wildcat today. They confirmed prices will be going up but would not give a price. They said the increase "will be small enough that you won't care".

Wildcat: less snow for more money, but you don't care.


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I would pay for it if I knew major snowmaking upgrades were coming but I don't see Peak dropping a lot into it.

 

[yeggous]

I would pay for it if I knew major snowmaking upgrades were coming but I don't see Peak dropping a lot into it.

They girl on the phone promised they would be buying new guns and pipe this summer. She called this year "an anomaly" and tried to talk up their acquisition by Peak Resorts as a good thing. She said the snowmaking system would be upgraded from... Awkward pause... "What it was this year" to be "pretty good".


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[Tin]

I would be surprised if Peak owned Wildcat in 5 years. It will be bare minimum upgrades. I'll still get the Crotch/Att/Cat student pass though. Not seeing it listed yet. Was $260 this year. Haven't had time to get up there yet this year. Hopefully early April.

 

[bigbog]

If this year is the pattern, I won't bother with any passes or even pre-paid deals: numerous coastal storms that dumps snow on my doors steps while the mountains stay dry
I'll simply ski out my door on my XC rig! (And do my downhill skiing in the big mountain out west)

+1

At least Wildcat(I think) offers you a freebee on one's birthday..y/n? Might truck on over, if they're still open in early April.