The ALTERRA SUCKS Thread

[Former Sunday Rivah Rat]

So my Deer Valley mix, as expected, was mixed....
I was constantly seeing rude, entitled, and dumb "new money" being flaunted. That always was at Park City Mountain Resort and not at DV.

I see this bad behavior as a pattern now at both IKON and Epic mountains. Folks don't have as much invested in a mountain with the megapasses. They are there for a few days and gone.
Folks that get a pass for their home mountain and ski there regularly have more invested in the mountain. They behave because they know they are regulars and are known.

 

[kingslug]

Tourons!

 

[machski]

I'll be in aspen 23rd to 30th

Slug, be sure to ski Highlands and make the hike up Highland Bowl a couple of times at least. They have Cat service from the top of the lifts to half way up to cut off a bit of the slog. Everyone drops the center of the bowl, but be sure to ski far skier's right along the boundary. It tends to windload and you can find deep powder along that without much or any recent snowfall if winds are right. All of Temerity and Deep Temerity are awesome! At Snowmass, look for trees, some really nice stuff in there too. Wish I could tell you about Hero's, but when canceled our trip when wife got hurt in January.

 

[kingslug]

Cool I'll check it out.
Friend of mine posted a video about heros the other day..

 

[4aprice]

Going to check out 2 new things this trip. The afore mentioned Hero's on Ajax and the new Mahogany Ridge at Steamboat. Going to try to do some major photography this trip.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Going to check out 2 new things this trip. The afore mentioned Hero's on Ajax and the new Mahogany Ridge at Steamboat. Going to try to do some major photography this trip.

i had a lot of fun skiing hero's. it really made aspen mountain more enjoyable. just a really solid pod of 1200 vertical steeps and woods and chutey stuff.

i still think the layout of ajax is annoying. you really need to do a lot of run out to the gondola to ski the lower 2/3 of the place.

 

[4aprice]

i had a lot of fun skiing hero's. it really made aspen mountain more enjoyable. just a really solid pod of 1200 vertical steeps and woods and chutey stuff.

i still think the layout of ajax is annoying. you really need to do a lot of run out to the gondola to ski the lower 2/3 of the place.

I go back to the days when they used to run the Bell Mountain chair. Would love to see them run it again as it opens up all those middle mountain runs. Hard to lap Bell when you have to circle down to Little Nell then up to the Sundeck

 

[thetrailboss]

So SAM Magazine had this article earlier this week “informing” ski areas of this interest in unionization. Alterra is a target. No update on Solitude.

Wave of Western Ski Patrols Move to Unionize - Ski Area Management

SAM Magazine–Keystone, Colo., March 11, 2024—Ski patrollers at Keystone Resort are the latest in a string of western resort patrol departments moving to unionize this winter. At least four other resorts have pending votes to form a patrol union as well. Ninety-three Keystone patrollers filed a...

www.saminfo.com

 

[thetrailboss]

Oh boy. Buckle up.

 

[1dog]

View attachment 61809Oh boy. Buckle up.

Let’s tell everyone to go there! Our experience of 11 days at Little and Big plus SB was generally pleasant.

Mid week no or few lines- mid Feb and 1st week of March.

More East coast folks but still a lot of Europeans-every one of them - ‘ why would you chance Europe ( high mts w NE -like conditions) when you got a sure thing like these?’

35 years and everyone says same thing.

Still gotta get there to experience the Alps.

Gunsight and Baldy shoulder best hikes of the two weeks out there.

Lone Tree at SB was near perfect too. And no hiking to boot.

 

[jaytrem]

Alterra sucks! But anybody feel like sharing some Ikon friends/family discounts if you don't need them? Could use a few for Alyeska, thanks!

 

[thetrailboss]

Let’s tell everyone to go there! Our experience of 11 days at Little and Big plus SB was generally pleasant.

Mid week no or few lines- mid Feb and 1st week of March.

More East coast folks but still a lot of Europeans-every one of them - ‘ why would you chance Europe ( high mts w NE -like conditions) when you got a sure thing like these?’

35 years and everyone says same thing.

Still gotta get there to experience the Alps.

Gunsight and Baldy shoulder best hikes of the two weeks out there.

Lone Tree at SB was near perfect too. And no hiking to boot.

I second Gunsight and Baldy hikes. Catherine’s is worth the very short hike. Devil’s Castle as well.

 

[thetrailboss]

Passes, Parking Reservations and The Ikon Pass

Our 2024-25 season passes went on sale today. Some of those passes include 3 days at Monarch and a day at Silverton in the unguided season. ...

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[thetrailboss]

View attachment 61809Oh boy. Buckle up.

So I have to give credit when credit is due. I got a personal response to my survey comments, in particular regarding my comments about the guest service (or lack thereof). Hopefully things can trend back to what it was pre-IKON.

 

[jimmywilson69]

What did they say?

 

[thetrailboss]

What did they say?

Basically, an apology and saying that the issue will be handled. Good on DV.

 

[snoseek]

Passes, Parking Reservations and The Ikon Pass

Our 2024-25 season passes went on sale today. Some of those passes include 3 days at Monarch and a day at Silverton in the unguided season. ...

arapahoebasin.blogspot.com

I could have seen this coming but yuck! I worry for Loveland....

 

[Smellytele]

I could have seen this coming but yuck! I worry for Loveland....

is the worry that they will start to be crowded as people ski there instead?

 

[jimmywilson69]

I mean lots of people already drive right by Loveland.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

a-basin parking is super limited tho and is the factor that keeps it manageable even on the busiest days

my guess is/was that they would build a parking structure in dillon and run their own shuttles