And Crotched *finally* posts their season pass prices

[tcharron]

And they're pretty much inline with expected. REALLY wish they didn't wait untill friggen mid may. Basically, same rates as Attitash.

Crotched Mountain VIP

Unlimited slope access at Crotched Mountain during the entire 07-08 season featuring direct-to-slope access. Nights and Midnight Madness included. No Blackout Dates. Valid for adults ages 6-64.
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Before 10/8/07 $399
After 10/8/07 $499

Crotched Mountain Unlimited Pass
(Adult 18+)

Unlimited slope access at Crotched Mountain during the entire 07-08 season. Nights included. Midnight Madness sessions optional $50 add-on. No Blackout Dates. Valid for adults ages 18-64.
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Before 10/8/07 $339
After 10/8/07 $439

Crotched Mountain Unlimited Pass
(Junior 6-17 / Senior 65+)

Unlimited slope access at Crotched Mountain during the entire 07-08 season. Nights included. Midnight Madness sessions optional $50 add-on. No Blackout Dates. Valid for juniors ages 6-17 / Seniors 65+.
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Before 10/8/07 $299
After 10/8/07 $399

Crotched Mountain Midweek Pass

Midweek slope access at Crotched Mountain during the entire 07-08 season, Mon-Fri, 9a-9p. Nights included. No Blackout Dates. Valid for all ages, 6 & up.
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Before 6/1/07 $199
After 10/8/07 $299

Blue Skies at Night Pass

The sky is always blue at night! This pass is valid for ALL Crotched nights, 3pm-9pm 6 days per week. (The MOST night sessions in New England!) All Midnight Madness sessions are included on Friday & Saturday nights. No Blackout Dates. Valid for all ages, 6 & up - an incredible value.
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Before 10/8/07 $219
After 10/8/07 $319

The Madness of Midnights Pass

This pass is valid for ALL Crotched Midnight Madness events, 9pm-3am Friday & Saturday nights. Join the ONLY regular late night ski & ride sessions in New England! No Blackout Dates. Valid for all ages, 6 & up.

Note: Midnight Madness can be added to unlimited season passes for only $50 during checkout.
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$99

VIP Kids ages 5 & under

VIP Kids enjoy direct-slope access with their parent adult pass-holders. VIP also receive FREE hot chocolate on every visit to their favorite snowy playground! No Blackout Dates.
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$50 Processing fee

 

[hammer]

Thanks for posting. Pats Peak also posted their updated season pass prices as well:

http://www.patspeak.com/seasonpasses.htm

Looks like Pats Peak has a better deal for juniors IMO.

 

[tcharron]

Hrm. Pat's deal looks pretty good as well. Now, they just have to move closer to my house.

 

[riverc0il]

Lots of areas haven't posted their season pass rates. Many don't get posted until Fall. I think May is pretty damn early for posting season pass rates.

 

[tcharron]

Lots of areas haven't posted their season pass rates. Many don't get posted until Fall. I think May is pretty damn early for posting season pass rates.

Guess I got caught up in all the price announcements due to the new multi-mountain passes.

 

[threecy]

Lots of areas haven't posted their season pass rates. Many don't get posted until Fall. I think May is pretty damn early for posting season pass rates.

Many areas post season pass rates in May (or earlier), usually with a bigger discount, in order to get some cashflow to keep things going during the off-season.

 

[Newpylong]

I don't know of many that wait as long as Fall to post pass information... Maybe Stowe?

These prices seem really good...I would be all over it if I lived closer to Crotched. I have been trying to find it but are they going to have that surface lift?? in for next year to get summit access back again? I believe it will be back to 1000 vertical with that.

 

[Newpylong]

Oh crap, good point... short double? Extend Quad to top? I forgot what they were going to do... I just assumed a poma or something...

 

[thebigo]

Oh crap, good point... short double? Extend Quad to top? I forgot what they were going to do... I just assumed a poma or something...

I skiied there on closing day and asked one of the lifties what the plans were. He said a brand new surface lift on the line of the old lift with five new trails. I hiked up to the true summit that day and skiied the trail labelled 'future expansion' on the map. Its a short but decent expert trail with some character including a couple of boulders and an unusual fall line. There is still a bunch of stumps and undergrowth to clear before it can be an official trail but I hope they leave the boulders. I dont know if any of the other new trails will be long enough to be worth skiing off a surface lift in that location.

I understand that a surface lift will keep the traffic down on the new trails but I would just rather see them extend the quad. Although I assume they dont want to light the summit.

 

[threecy]

I think a short surface lift is a waste of everyone's time...it'd tie up a chunk of trail, would require extra snow to open, and would serve a limited about of vertical. Extending the quad or dropping into that bowl a bit more seems to me to be more practical.

 

[tcharron]

I think a short surface lift is a waste of everyone's time...it'd tie up a chunk of trail, would require extra snow to open, and would serve a limited about of vertical. Extending the quad or dropping into that bowl a bit more seems to me to be more practical.

I believe that is their eventual goal, to extend the lift up to the summit.

As far as wasting space, there you're wrong. The new lift area is the OLD lift area from years ago. Heck, it still has some of the old surface lift polls still up.

 

[thebigo]

I would guess they chose to install the sruface lift rather than extend the quad in order to make the process more incremental. If they were to extend the quad they would have to light the summit and install snowmaking in a year when Peaks has a few new toys to sink money into.

By using the surface lift they can accomplish the expansion over the course of a few years but still boast the 1000 ft vertical. This raises the question of why they didnt just use the entire 1000 ft when they first reopened the place.

 

[tcharron]

I would guess they chose to install the sruface lift rather than extend the quad in order to make the process more incremental. If they were to extend the quad they would have to light the summit and install snowmaking in a year when Peaks has a few new toys to sink money into.

By using the surface lift they can accomplish the expansion over the course of a few years but still boast the 1000 ft vertical. This raises the question of why they didnt just use the entire 1000 ft when they first reopened the place.

Good question. I can't recall to where the old quad came to, but I'm pretty sure it came higher then the existing one. But looking at the old maps, it's hard to tell. I know their base is at like 1040 feet, and the peak is at 2066 feet, but then, the old flyers never actually said that I can remember 1000+ feet...

Anyone from the old Crotched remember how closely the new quad follows the same locations of the new quad?

 

[jack97]

By using the surface lift they can accomplish the expansion over the course of a few years but still boast the 1000 ft vertical. This raises the question of why they didnt just use the entire 1000 ft when they first reopened the place.

IIRC, this was talked about in the neslap forum..... the summit doesn't have a lot of cover so it tends to get icy. Coupled with with steep and narrow sections, it gets interesting. If you put the quad up to the summit, all skiers have to navigate this harder terrain to get back down.

Again, I recall some concerns about the present quad location, you have to go thru short steep and narrow sections to get onto the main trail. When it gets too icy, its tuff on the intermediates. I took my daughter up there a couple of times the first year they open, when snow gets skied off, it got brutal for her.

 

[threecy]

As far as wasting space, there you're wrong. The new lift area is the OLD lift area from years ago. Heck, it still has some of the old surface lift polls still up.

Surface lifts take up more trail than chairlifts.

I would guess they chose to install the sruface lift rather than extend the quad in order to make the process more incremental. If they were to extend the quad they would have to light the summit and install snowmaking in a year when Peaks has a few new toys to sink money into.

Adding a few lights and some more pipe is a much smaller expense than extending the quad...I think they have the HP necessary, but you'd be talking terminal relocation, a few towers, more chairs, an extension of the cable (and splice), and then a load test.

Again, I think a short surface lift or a short chair (we're talking what, 300 vertical?) isn't really worthwhile, unless they have a small lift to spare. 300 vertical feet isn't much - we're talking less than half of a CT ski area!

 

[threecy]

I think it is only about another 125 feet vertical .. I told them to put some stairs and then only the serious skier or rider will be up at the top.

Ya, overall there isn't too much upside, but I meant the old T-Bar line that's been recut, which I think is around 300 vertical feet.

 

[threecy]

All of a sudden I feel like a gaper .. didn't even occur to me that was what you was talking about ..

Aren't all snowboarders gapers? =)

 

[Angus]

looking up at the top this winter - the top of the new trail looked relatively steep and again let's remember this is a family mountain catering to a novice-low intermediate crowd. Anyway, the old t-bar can be accessed via the chair lift that is on the far left hand side of the hill (looking up the slope). Was skiing there last winter - I think someone else from here was there on the same evening - and the summit chair was closed due to winds. Mentioning it to someone who worked there, they indicated the wind hold frequency of the summit was greater than you would think - wind blows from the -N/NW pretty much uninterrupted from the higher peaks. Plus those new trails will hold snow better!

 

[jack97]

looking up at the top this winter - the top of the new trail looked relatively steep and again let's remember this is a family mountain catering to a novice-low intermediate crowd.

Sledhaulingmedic use to ski this place in his younger days. iirc, that's basically what he said, the summit has some hard terrain. Not a place you want to take a beginner or an intermediate.

 

[Newpylong]

Its good to hear terrain coming back, anyway you can access it!