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IKON & RFID
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jimmywilson69
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Vails RFID scanners show the passholder picture.
The ones Vail employees use do
urungus
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At Stratton last year, each time I rode a lift, they made me take my IKON pass out of my pocket so they could look at my photo. My memory is foggy, but I remember being irritated at having to pull out my pass after they had already successfully scanned it while still inside my sleeve. Probably didn’t want to invest in fancier hand scanners that display photo of cardholder, since they knew the gates were coming this year and they will have some new tablet devices to accomplish the task.
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My memory of skiing Stratton last year is taking out pass for gondola but no so much other lifts.
I've seen some gate set ups where an employee is sitting looking at a laptop as people come through. Had a friend stopped at Sugarbush and at Stratton due to not having checked off some waiver box on the Ikon site. Wasa a PITA at Stratton because they had lines of folks at ticket window dealing with issues and only one person staffing. We started over at Sun Bowl. Good for parking. Bad for needing ticket window. Who knew?
I've seen some gate set ups where an employee is sitting looking at a laptop as people come through. Had a friend stopped at Sugarbush and at Stratton due to not having checked off some waiver box on the Ikon site. Wasa a PITA at Stratton because they had lines of folks at ticket window dealing with issues and only one person staffing. We started over at Sun Bowl. Good for parking. Bad for needing ticket window. Who knew?
BenedictGomez
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And probably their last colonoscopy imaging.
BenedictGomez
Well-known member
While I was at Vail some years back, the lift line employees were so meticulous & focused on checking everyone that I have a strong suspicion they are incentivized financially to "catch" EPIC cheaters, because there's just no way I believe they hired so many people at that wage who are as diligent & hard-working at their liftee job. There is only one Chick-Fil-A.
jimmywilson69
Well-known member
wait so my epic pass includes a colonoscopy!?!? I didn't see that in the pass benefit section!
4aprice
Well-known member
I'm a fan of RFID. I love being able to boot up at the Utah Junction Lot at Mary Jane (aka Challenger Lot) and being able to hop on the snow to get going and skiing back with out having to go to the base area. Every once in a while you run into a scanner that makes you dance to get through but mostly if there;;s nothing else in your pocket it works fine.
BenedictGomez
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EPIC colonoscopy; it's somewhat affordable & comes bundled with a bunch of other medical services, most of which you'll never use.
But if you just want to schedule a one-time colonoscopy, it's $25,000.
ColdRain&Snow
Active member
They scan the lower lifts, upper lifts no. I’ve had the Stratton only pass for the last few seasons. They scan the card, if it’s backwards you/they have to flip it to scan. I assume ikon cards were the same, but never noticed.
I don’t know exactly what they see, but one day they were telling the ski school kids how many days that season.
Edd
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Feel like I read on this forum that they are indeed incentivized to catch people trying to BS their way through.
NYDB
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There is a ticket window and guest services at sun bowl.
yes but on this particular Saturday in early December with a foot + of fresh snow they dd Not get their ticket window open until 10 and then they only had 1 person staffing it. With lots of folks having first day of Ikon use issues and not being let up the lift.... The line for that window built up and was moving super slow. My friend waited for an hour. I went and took a run then took another and then waited with him for a bit.
I have seen mentioned that Alta gives a cash bonus to lifties who stop theft of services.
x10003q
Active member
I think Stratton wanted to see the Ikon card to scan the bar code with the handheld unit. The picture is useless when you have a neck gaiter over your nose, goggles and a helmet on. Nobody ever asked me to pull down my neck gaiter. Also, they only scanned the base lifts. They will probably put the RFID gates on all the lifts like Sugarbush.
ColdRain&Snow
Active member
I’ve seen this too, but love parking at the sun bowl and skiing right to my car
but the services, parking, even the lifts there don’t seem reliable until they’re gearing up for Christmas week.
Last year’s snow/rain, cold/warm shut down that area a few times after they initially got it opened.
Hawk
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So at sugarbush they have the tablet that shows the photo related to the pass so the lifties can get a good idea if someone is using someone elses pass. It must be hard depending on the weather and how people dress to determine a mismatch. Unless it is a guys name and a girl going through or vice versa.
Sugarbush also has that camera above the gates. I was told that they were going to get software that puts all the puctures together and alerts people if the images change. They then look to see if it was just a wardrobe change or did someone hand off a pass.
Sugarbush also has that camera above the gates. I was told that they were going to get software that puts all the puctures together and alerts people if the images change. They then look to see if it was just a wardrobe change or did someone hand off a pass.
machski
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Same at SR and I have seen lift ops catch some folks who totally didn't match the pictures on file. Big deal when that happens.
They were asking you to take it out of your pocket to scan the barcode. They didn’t have rfid last season so there was no way for them to scan it while it was in your pocket.
Looking at the VT act 250 permit for Stratton it appears that RFID gates are being placed at the Gondola, AMEX, South American, Villager, Tamarack, Cub Carpet and URSA. Nothing shown for Sunrise, Solstice, Shooter and Snow Bowl.
