Season Pass Roll Call

[WJenness]

JFBB

First trip this upcoming season it will already have paid for itself since I bought it midseason last year and skied for free the end of last year, otherwise I'd have been at Blue..


When are the PA mtns going to get together and offer a multi-mountain season pass....

JFBB / Blue / Camelback pass would kick ass...

Made me wonder how much of next season's pass I'd Worked/Paid/Skied off so far.

I got four days in (3 at Sunday River & 1 at Loon).

My math tells me that that would have cost me $266 in lift tickets... so before last season ended, I'd already taken care of over 44% of my pass cost... Steezy.

Anyone else?

-w

 

[PA Ridge Racer]

JFBB

First trip this upcoming season it will already have paid for itself since I bought it midseason last year and skied for free the end of last year, otherwise I'd have been at Blue..


When are the PA mtns going to get together and offer a multi-mountain season pass....

JFBB / Blue / Camelback pass would kick ass...

Would be sweet if the price were right but I can't see it happening.

 

[4aprice]

JFBB

First trip this upcoming season it will already have paid for itself since I bought it midseason last year and skied for free the end of last year, otherwise I'd have been at Blue..


When are the PA mtns going to get together and offer a multi-mountain season pass....

JFBB / Blue / Camelback pass would kick ass...

You may scream about this but I would like to see Camelback team up with an area further north, say upstate NY or Vermont and offer some sort of pass. That would most certainly drive me to go to that area. JFBB is associated with Mt Snow and Crotched and maybe a couple of others but is too small to keep me entertained for an entire season (Camelback barely fits that bill).


Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Phillycore]

IMO Camelback is weak compared to Blue when it comes to Pocono resorts.
Blue is easily the best of the ragged bunch that we have to deal with down here.
Varied terrain, high vertical, and quick lifts make it truly a fun mountain to ski at.. (just not on weekends between noon and 4pm)
JFBB's open terrain policy and the fact that they open first and close last makes the most sense for someone who needs to travel over 100 miles each direction just to go skiing.
Yeah the lifts are slow and the runs can be short, but they blow snow into the woods and let you ski wherever you want. BB keeps the jibhonks happy, and JF's east mtn doesn't attract the noob's as much since it is located away from other easier trails.

Camelback also has a tradition of closing for no apparent good reason.
I would give them the nod for the best food/bar areas and I love the fact that you can park at sunbowl and ski to your car if you get there early enough.
They are turning that place into a damn Disney world and soon it will be filled with even more noob's than shawnee.

 

[dmc]

Hunter... what can i say.. It's 5 minutes from my casa....

 

[PA Ridge Racer]

You may scream about this but I would like to see Camelback team up with an area further north, say upstate NY or Vermont and offer some sort of pass. That would most certainly drive me to go to that area. JFBB is associated with Mt Snow and Crotched and maybe a couple of others but is too small to keep me entertained for an entire season (Camelback barely fits that bill).


Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Jack Frost and Big Boulder are 2 seperate and distinct areas that really shouldn't be lumped together IMO. BB cant compare to CB I'll give you that.

JF may be smaller in vert but 1) The snow is better and 2) I can ski trees without having my pass clipped. In fact they encourage tree skiing. They're even thinning out the trees even more this summer for a better glade experience this upcoming winter. That puts it over the top for me. If you stay on the map at JF it can get boring but I can explore Jack Frost which is something that can't be done at CB which keeps me entertained. Just my opinion

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

What is a jibhonk???

 

[shwilly]

None

Which is silly from a customer retention perspective because last year's Loaf pass afforded a long, epic season and we could hardly have been happier customers. I think our biggest complaint was that one time we thought a bigger passholder discount for a hotel room would have been nice.

However, life events say passes aren't cost effective this year, so we'll probably go with a Maine Pass + day tickets. It's annoying from a $/day perspective, but on the plus side it makes a few N VT trips a near certainty.

 

[deadheadskier]

None

Which is silly from a customer retention perspective because last year's Loaf pass afforded a long, epic season and we could hardly have been happier customers. I think our biggest complaint was that one time we thought a bigger passholder discount for a hotel room would have been nice.

However, life events say passes aren't cost effective this year, so we'll probably go with a Maine Pass + day tickets. It's annoying from a $/day perspective, but on the plus side it makes a few N VT trips a near certainty.

I would look into a ski club. As I had mentioned, I got 8 tickets for $260 total, which included the membership. Hard to beat $32.50 a day unless you have a pass somewhere. Membership also includes some appreciation weekends at certain areas with deeply discounted tickets.

 

[hardline]

same thing as last year. pass at MC. unfortunatly we haven't got things together for the project in stowe, so no pass there but at least 20 days. saw a buddy tonight that i rode with all winter and after many beers we came to the conclusion that we each only had lift lines on 2 days this past season at MC.

 

[jimmer]

gore / whiteface,just bought them last week,both mts r offering some new terrain this year,sould be great.

 

[Ski Hick]

Cannon Mt. NH & Smuggs VT.

 

[4aprice]

Jack Frost and Big Boulder are 2 seperate and distinct areas that really shouldn't be lumped together IMO. BB cant compare to CB I'll give you that.

JF may be smaller in vert but 1) The snow is better and 2) I can ski trees without having my pass clipped. In fact they encourage tree skiing. They're even thinning out the trees even more this summer for a better glade experience this upcoming winter. That puts it over the top for me. If you stay on the map at JF it can get boring but I can explore Jack Frost which is something that can't be done at CB which keeps me entertained. Just my opinion

I will give you the natural snow because of elevation and location. I also like that JF dosen't have night skiing so the snow stays better. We actually have a house at Arrowhead Lakes which is closer to JF then Camelback. But my opinion is that the terrain at Camelback is better and natural snow in the Poconos is marginal at best. Camelback certainly knows how to pump out snow and every year I have been there manages to get the entire mountain open. The nightlife and location is better for me since my home in Jersey is close to route 80. I can easily hit it from both houses. I keep a locker there and if it gets too zooish stop skiing. 1st two hours in the morning are never crowded. Usually after presidents week the crowds drop significantly even on the weekends and the spring there is great. As far as trees I am lucky enough to travel west and to N New England every year and save that stuff for there.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I will give you the natural snow because of elevation and location. I also like that JF dosen't have night skiing so the snow stays better. We actually have a house at Arrowhead Lakes which is closer to JF then Camelback. But my opinion is that the terrain at Camelback is better and natural snow in the Poconos is marginal at best. Camelback certainly knows how to pump out snow and every year I have been there manages to get the entire mountain open. The nightlife and location is better for me since my home in Jersey is close to route 80. I can easily hit it from both houses. I keep a locker there and if it gets too zooish stop skiing. 1st two hours in the morning are never crowded. Usually after presidents week the crowds drop significantly even on the weekends and the spring there is great. As far as trees I am lucky enough to travel west and to N New England every year and save that stuff for there.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Do you ever ski Blue mountain? Alot of former Camelback passholders make Blue mountain their home

 

[Zand]

Just Wachusett. Advantage of that is the discounts at Sugarbush and Okemo.

 

[Greg]

Bump

 

[powderman]

Mohawk

Yes, it's easy. But, it's sometimes fun to ski there for an hour after work. And it's so close by. I ski at further ski areas whenever I can, usually Catamount. In a year or two, I might stop season passing at Mohawk, but until then...

edit: Thinking about switching to Catamount this year

 

[Greg]

edit: Thinking about switching to Catamount this year

Are you closer to Catamount or Sundown? Catamount is a good hill with better (steeper) terrain, but they're not all that aggressive in terms of making snow. Sundown kills them on the bump front too.

 

[powderman]

Are you closer to Catamount or Sundown? Catamount is a good hill with better (steeper) terrain, but they're not all that aggressive in terms of making snow. Sundown kills them on the bump front too.

No, but it's only a 15 minute difference. Sundown's season pass is $160 more than Catamount's and I don't feel it's worth the additional cost.

 

[Vortex]

Giving my brother his Tenney pass for his birthday this weekend.