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I'm on the tail end of a two week trip in Colorado with an epic pass and most of my time has been skiing bell to bell at powderhorn. I am sold on the mellow local hill experience at this point whether east of west. My one day at vail and one day at beaver creek were not nearly as enjoyable.
The uber high day ticket prices function is to drive people to purchase season passes. Then people will buy a pass, even if they only plan on one trip a year and it locks them in.
Alterra already knows that if you mainly ski at SB, unlimited Stratton vs 7 day Stratton does not matter. It is purely marketing and unlimited sounds better. SB and Stratton are over 2 hours apart and probably very little cross visitation. The regular at SB might visit Stratton once or twice per season. The same is true for a Stratton regular. If a regular at Stratton takes a week at SB, most of those days are midweek, so that does not matter for crowding, either.
Oh I know but it is still the problem
Very true. To get to SB from NY area you need to drive past Killington. Why drive an hour past a better ski resort to ski a worst one?
On the bright side, I'm glad there's people that think like this. Everyone should go to K and not come to SB.
Boyne dropped NEP pass pricing and details, costs increased about 10% across all levels. Want to pau it on a payment plan, you now have to open a credit line. Notably, Shawnee WAS NOT INCLUDED as an unlimited area on the NEP's. All levels now give you unlimited 50% at other Boyne resorts for lift tix and Gold and up give 3 complimentary days first to include Shawnee. So based on this, no way Shawnee gets added to IKON.
Same here. Vail wasn't bad, so big you could always find a lift or lifts with little to not traffic (no powder says though). Beaver Creek was a Wednesday and was ski on outside of the morning rush up Centennial. Breck Fri-Mon was an utter $hit show. The Quicksilver lift out of base of 9 should be renamed Silverslug for how slow it moves most of the time with slows and stops. That dual loading curve idea is interesting but ultimately too confusing. All the other 6 seaters there slow and stop A TON. Terrain is awesome, but the crowds have killed it. Flash ahead in Created Butte now, it's like skiing in the East. Ski on every lift today and killer terrain to boot. So much more snow here than the others. Don't think I'll ever do an Epic outright pass again, but might have to grab an Epic 4 day to come back here. All this said, locals told us today the place gets packed on weekends/holidays now, so very Eastern like in that respect.
Bronze valid on weekends early and late season is compelling. Any idea if the renewal discount applies if you step down a level? Go from silver to bronze?
