Ticket Scanners

[koreshot]

Solitude indeed has the best lift ticket scanning system out there. (Rather surprising considering how old and slow their lifts are... which I like btw). Thanks to the stationary scanners, they can check your lift ticket every time you jump on the lift but the lines move very fast. Actually, I don't think I have ever seen a line in Solitude, but that is probably because of low crowds, not the scanners.

 

[Marc]

Solitude indeed has the best lift ticket scanning system out there. (Rather surprising considering how old and slow their lifts are... which I like btw). Thanks to the stationary scanners, they can check your lift ticket every time you jump on the lift but the lines move very fast. Actually, I don't think I have ever seen a line in Solitude, but that is probably because of low crowds, not the scanners.

So clearly it lives up to its name. It sounds like I should visit this place.

 

[Robbski]

Anyway, the only resort where I've had problems with checkers holding up the line is Waterville. Most places I've skied at do check tickets, especially on crowded days. However, they all usually do pretty good at moving the line along. Waterville, on the other hand... I skied there 3 days last year. Twice the place was empty and once there was a small crowd (no more than 5 mins at the quad). When it was empty, I must've skiied on the Summit Quad 15+ times and EVERY time they had to stop me and check... not to mention most of the times it was the same checkers. The day with the short line, there really shouldn't have been a line. They were MAYBE getting every third chair full because the checkers held everyone up.

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every trip to Waterville I made last year (5 or 6) I ran into this. I usually go on weekdays so I can ski up to the lift and not horse around in queue and watching new lifties fooling around with their scan gun is not enhancing my ski experience at all.

 

[eastcoastskiier]

one of the things that you also get with these scannable tivkets generally is a ticket stub and a recipt. if your ticket gets ripped off you can bring that detachable stub to the ticket window and they will give you a new one witha new barcode and block the previous barcode.

However speaking of ticket fraud, i thnk this would make it EXTREMELY easy to just leave the mountain and sell your stub to someone in the parking lot, so they can then redem the new 'lost ticket'

and while on the note about reason to hate the new tickets, so fare i have seen that all mountains that used these scannable tickets use the new ticket styles with the zip-ties as opposed to the traditional wickets, and i find that these new tickets NEVER sit flat, no matter how you put them on they are always backwards when they check the ticket, loosing time in the 'fumble'

Personally i didn't really mind the old stickey tickets.. actually got it down to a little science

 

[eastcoastskiier]

Yeah, If i remember right, last year they only scanned at barker, whitecap, north, and jordan (aka the lifts you can get to without hiking/skiing)

sugarloaf only scans at the superquad, whiffletree and DRC.


Solitude has the most high tech scanning system that i have seen. their tickets are a card that have a radio transmitter chip in them, so you just stick them in your pocket and then in order to ride a lift you have to lean against a sensor thing untl the gate opens allowing you to enter the line. It's kind of a pain, but the bonus is the system stores all your lift ride data so you can log on to their website and enter your ticket # and track your vertical and lift ride info so it's pretty cool!!!

that sounds awsome.. i wish more of the mountains could use that, just so i could know how many runs i did and how much vertical i was able to cover.. it may get annoying after time, but it wounds like an awsome idea.. sounds a little more pricey per ticket then the traditional wicket or the new zip-ties

 

[bvibert]

one of the things that you also get with these scannable tivkets generally is a ticket stub and a recipt. if your ticket gets ripped off you can bring that detachable stub to the ticket window and they will give you a new one witha new barcode and block the previous barcode.

Yup, that's another benefit that people often over-look...

 

[from_the_NEK]

Burke is doing the ticket scan thing this year :roll:
I think that in the past there has been a lot of ticket passing/skiing without a pass at Burke. I just hope the scanning of tickets doesn't start creating lines where there weren't lines before.:smash: I do know that I'm not going to ski with my pass in the clear plastic armband holder that I have used a couple of times this year. It takes forever for the scanner to read my pass.

 

[tcharron]

Hehe, they could always scan them at the TOP of the lifts, and make non ticket holders walk down.. Without their gear of course.

Okok, it'd mess up people who had legitimate tickets but left them on their jackets in the lodge..

But at least the thought is amusing.

 

[SIKSKIER]

that sounds awsome.. i wish more of the mountains could use that, just so i could know how many runs i did and how much vertical i was able to cover..

You should buy an altimeter watch.I love my Suunto.It counts laps,elapsed time on a run,and keeps the total vertical for the season,among other features.I always shoot for the 1 million vertical every year.Go get one!

 

[eastcoastskiier]

ah, im wishing we had this conversation like 4 months ago.. i bought the new CatEye system for my road bike, it does everyhtin imaginable, tells ur rpm(cadance) heartrte graphs everything out on the computer.. the thing is phanominal.. but the model below you lost the cadance sensor, but gained an altimiter, and a band that would allow the screen to clip onto your wrist... i never really had a reason for it before. but now that i thnk of it, that sounds like it would be AWSOME.. i always try and figure out my vetical, at the end of the day, just a real rough estimate... shoot, having something accurate and that can tally togethe your season total sounds down right awsome

 

[thetrailboss]

Burke has gone to scanning tickets. They do it on almost every run. Best part is if you have a bad pass, you hear a funny:

Which is funny!

 

[eastcoastskiier]

Burke has gone to scanning tickets. They do it on almost every run. Best part is if you have a bad pass, you hear a funny:

Which is funny!

ha thats awsome.. at least they make some humor out of the situation