Indy Ski Pass

[jaytrem]

Mount Edouard is a full pass partner with Mount Bohemia. As a result, you can ski the whole season there for $112.

Season Passes | Mount Bohemia - Extreme Skiing - Upper Peninsula of Michigan

www.mtbohemia.com

I might be wrong, but Bohemia's partnerships look a little light this year. I have last years mailer at home, I'll take a look.

Paul Bunyon is back on the list section of the website, just missing the picture now. Went there a couple years ago, the guy running the t-bar had 80s hairband music cranked to 11. Fun little place, mostly kids skiing while adults were hanging out at the lodge/base are. One of those oddball little places where everybody is having a great time and you leave thinking you're glad such places exist and you're happy you stopped by.

 

[jaytrem]

If you’re interested in skiing in the eastern townships, you should check out the L’est go card put out by the Township tourism board. If you buy four days or more during the pre-sale which runs from September 4 to December 9, with the discount and the exchange rate you’re looking at about $54-$55 a day for skiing.

The nice thing about this card is the days don’t expire, if you don’t use them this year, you can roll them over until next year.

L’EST GO card | Ski Four Mountains and Save | Eastern Townships

Want to ski the Townships and save big? The L’EST GO card gives you access to reduced price lift tickets at our four resorts.

www.easterntownships.org

Thanks for that one. Quebec Ski Passe-Partout is also a nice deal for Quebec. I think they even sell to to US citizens now. It used to be only Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. The deal used to be a bit better with 50% off you first ticket to each place, then is would drop to a lower percentage for the next 2 days. Now it's a straight 30% for 5 days at each place. I'm planning on north of Montreal and out towards Ottawa this year. So need to figure out a good plan. Might need that Snow Triple Play card.

 

[thebigo]

My plan for Feb school vacation will be

Jay x 2
Sutton x 1
Owl's Head x1
Burke x1

The best thing about adding Burke, Sutton and Owl's Head is you can save Jay for midweek when it's less crowded.

If I were retired and had the free time to travel, I'd also be quite excited about Eduourd and Val D Irene. Both look like fantastic mid sized areas.

FYI - assuming your kids vacation week is the same as ours, Burke is scheduled host FIS events Feb 22, 23, and 24.

 

[jaytrem]

If I counted the dots correctly, Bohemia went from 30 partners to 20. Huge drop indeed.

 

[crystalmountainskier]

Some of these are funny. 1,000 miles and six plane rides from anywhere. No operable lifts. Barely ever open. There are only so many mountains left.

 

[Killingtime]

Indy loves to use mildly obfuscating copy in their PR. They lumped ALL of the 25-26 additions into this announcement even if they had announced them previously. For such a cool pass product they do some amateurish things

It was definitely a little shady and not really necessary. Just the additions since the last update would have been impressive enough.. Between the Ikon and Indy there is now a lot to see in Quebec. glad I renewed my passport recently.

 

[Killingtime]

Some of these are funny. 1,000 miles and six plane rides from anywhere. No operable lifts. Barely ever open. There are only so many mountains left.

That's the problem, we are running out of mountains. Who's left? Bretton Woods, Plattekill, Smuggs, MRG. Kind of surprised Gunstock didn't jump aboard. Truth is I'm good. Just keep the price of Indy reasonable. I've always tag teamed it with Ikon or Epic anyway.

 

[jaytrem]

Some of these are funny. 1,000 miles and six plane rides from anywhere. No operable lifts. Barely ever open. There are only so many mountains left.

Which area (doesn't have to be Indy) was the biggest pain for you to get to? And what would be your #1 off season visit that you would like to ski at?

 

[deadheadskier]

That's the problem, we are running out of mountains. Who's left? Bretton Woods, Plattekill, Smuggs, MRG. Kind of surprised Gunstock didn't jump aboard. Truth is I'm good. Just keep the price of Indy reasonable. I've always tag teamed it with Ikon or Epic anyway.

It doesn't surprise me that Gunstock hasn't signed on. As a Gunstock pass holder, I wish they would so I could go the add on route and save a bit of money.

Gunstock does very well as a stand alone because they have a captive audience of thousands of vacation home owners within 10-15 minutes of the ski area. It's enough that they sell out basically all peak Saturdays and some Sundays of the season. So, they basically don't need to be on a multi mountain pass. It wouldn't increase their business in a meaningful way and might result in less profit to return to the county as they could lose some of their full time pass purchasers to Indy given all of the Indy offerings on Ski 93.

Maybe Smuggs and MRG look at it with heavy blackouts. They both don't seem to need additional Peak season weekend business.

Hard to say about Bretton Woods. They seem to be like Waterville and are fine with being on WMSP.

 

[Newpylong]

I would love to head back to Gunstock if they went on Indy but for sure being on it isn't for everyone.

 

[deadheadskier]

I would love to head back to Gunstock if they went on Indy but for sure being on it isn't for everyone.

If you ever want to go, Gunstock is very generous with 50% off buddy passes. I have 18 of them for next season.

 

[crystalmountainskier]

Which area (doesn't have to be Indy) was the biggest pain for you to get to? And what would be your #1 off season visit that you would like to ski at?

Some of the mountains in this announcement.

Mt. Eyak is rarely open and requires a flight on Alaska Airlines' "milk run" from Seattle. That's AS66 Seattle-Juneau-Yakutat-Cordova-Anchorage. It's a whole day on a 737. The day I went I was the only passenger for Cordova.

Smokey Mountain in Labrador City was similar. There's a road but its hundreds of miles of dirt and I was advised against trying it. So I took a PAL Airlines Dash-8 from Montreal to Quebec City, Sept-Iles, then Wabush. Again it's all day on an airplane. You could fly to Europe faster and probably cheaper.

Marble Mountain requires a flight to Gander, Newfoundland, the city made famous for accepting most of the widebody diversions on 9/11. You can also take a ferry but you're looking at 22 hours from Portland, Maine. I did it in the summer but would love to ski there.

The biggest pain of all was probably Moose Mountain, Yukon. It took multiple flights to get to Whitehorse then a full day drive through very remote and sometimes one lane unpaved roads. Expect that place to be part of Indy's next announcement!

 

[Newpylong]

If you ever want to go, Gunstock is very generous with 50% off buddy passes. I have 18 of them for next season.

That would be great!

 

[Smellytele]

Which area (doesn't have to be Indy) was the biggest pain for you to get to? And what would be your #1 off season visit that you would like to ski at?

Mount Bohemia

 

[jaytrem]

Some of the mountains in this announcement.

Mt. Eyak is rarely open and requires a flight on Alaska Airlines' "milk run" from Seattle. That's AS66 Seattle-Juneau-Yakutat-Cordova-Anchorage. It's a whole day on a 737. The day I went I was the only passenger for Cordova.

Smokey Mountain in Labrador City was similar. There's a road but its hundreds of miles of dirt and I was advised against trying it. So I took a PAL Airlines Dash-8 from Montreal to Quebec City, Sept-Iles, then Wabush. Again it's all day on an airplane. You could fly to Europe faster and probably cheaper.

Marble Mountain requires a flight to Gander, Newfoundland, the city made famous for accepting most of the widebody diversions on 9/11. You can also take a ferry but you're looking at 22 hours from Portland, Maine. I did it in the summer but would love to ski there.

The biggest pain of all was probably Moose Mountain, Yukon. It took multiple flights to get to Whitehorse then a full day drive through very remote and sometimes one lane unpaved roads. Expect that place to be part of Indy's next announcement!

I thought Moose might be your trickiest.

Eyak opened for a weekday powder day while we were in Anchorage. I probably would have figured a way there if I was by myself, would have broke the bank with the kids in tow. Not to mention we would have missed some good Alyeska skiing.

At least you get 2 for 1 with Gander.

Mount Bohemia

That one wasn't bad for me since I was already up that way hitting other areas, only a couple hours from the Porkies and I hit Ripley on the way for some evening skiing. Turned out Ripley is one of the better low vertical places.

I can't really think of any that was too crazy for me. Cape Smokey was a bit of a haul from everything else last year.

 

[bigbob]

Smokey Mountain in Labrador City was similar. There's a road but its hundreds of miles of dirt and I was advised against trying it. So I took a PAL Airlines Dash-8 from Montreal to Quebec City, Sept-Iles, then Wabush. Again it's all day on an airplane. You could fly to Europe faster and probably cheaper.

I have driven that road from Lab city to the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River and then down to Quebec City. I remember seeing ski trails off in the distance as we left Lab City and all I could think was that must be one cold mountain in January. Not very big.

 

[Smellytele]

I thought Moose might be your trickiest.

Eyak opened for a weekday powder day while we were in Anchorage. I probably would have figured a way there if I was by myself, would have broke the bank with the kids in tow. Not to mention we would have missed some good Alyeska skiing.

At least you get 2 for 1 with Gander.



That one wasn't bad for me since I was already up that way hitting other areas, only a couple hours from the Porkies and I hit Ripley on the way for some evening skiing. Turned out Ripley is one of the better low vertical places.

I can't really think of any that was too crazy for me. Cape Smokey was a bit of a haul from everything else last year.

I drove overnight on a Friday after training from Cleveland. Slept a few hours in the back of my company minivan in a holiday inn parking lot in Marquette and then drove the last few hours to Bohemia. They delayed the opening to let it soften up but stayed Open a little later. Stayed in their bunk house. Was going to ski the next day but it rained and they closed for the season so drove back to lovely Cleveland for another week of training.

 

[jaytrem]

I drove overnight on a Friday after training from Cleveland. Slept a few hours in the back of my company minivan in a holiday inn parking lot in Marquette and then drove the last few hours to Bohemia. They delayed the opening to let it soften up but stayed Open a little later. Stayed in their bunk house. Was going to ski the next day but it rained and they closed for the season so drove back to lovely Cleveland for another week of training.

Wow, that's a crazy one! Must have been about a full days worth of driving.

 

[ceo]

I'm happy to see the Learn To Turn pass, even though I personally don't need it. It's a fantastic deal even without a discount code from an Indy passholder, 3 days of lifts, lesson and rentals for less than you'd pay for one day of those things at most resorts. A great way to grow the sport. I have at least one friend who wants to try skiing, who I'm going to recommend it to.