I tried to ski today, I really did. With 55" of new snow this week and a deeper base depth (150") than we've had all winter, why not pay the $42 Snowbird upgrade to my Alta pass and partake?
I arrived at 8:30 a.m. only to secure one of the last parking spaces on the Bypass Road up near the heli-pad. I skied down to meet the others at Peruvian, and arrived just as I realized that my Alta pass was in my truck a half a mile away and a few hundred vertical feet above me. #-o
By this point the Tram line was already full maze, around the building and onto the Tram Plaza (BobMc messaged me from line to tell me to forget it, but we were heading for Peruvian anyway). I walked into the season ticket office, explained my predicament and asked if they could look me up. Nope -- even though the two ski areas share a lift ticket they miraculously have no way to look up my season pass. :roll: So I loaded Chickadee (the two lifties let me on, even though each had the personality of a stiff, dead trout) and started hitchhiking back to my truck. Thanks to the friendly Public Safety employee who gave me a lift, the only bright spot in my otherwise dismal morning.
I got back to my truck, reached into the center console and...no pass. It was then that I realized for the first time that it was in my other jacket as I wore my soft shell on Alta's closing day two weeks ago. ](*,) My Epic Pass was sitting there, however, so I called the ticket office to see if they were offering a spring discount to pass holders from other resorts -- nope, I'd have to pay the full-freight walk-up price of $106. :shock:
At that point I said f*** it and went home, for there was no way that I was paying Snowbird a $64 "stupid tax." :evil: AmyZ asked if I was coming back up, but judging by the flow of cars coming up the canyon I'd have to park somewhere in Park City by the time I got back. Screw it, I'd rather do something like scoop dog s*** and mow the lawn.
I arrived at 8:30 a.m. only to secure one of the last parking spaces on the Bypass Road up near the heli-pad. I skied down to meet the others at Peruvian, and arrived just as I realized that my Alta pass was in my truck a half a mile away and a few hundred vertical feet above me. #-o
By this point the Tram line was already full maze, around the building and onto the Tram Plaza (BobMc messaged me from line to tell me to forget it, but we were heading for Peruvian anyway). I walked into the season ticket office, explained my predicament and asked if they could look me up. Nope -- even though the two ski areas share a lift ticket they miraculously have no way to look up my season pass. :roll: So I loaded Chickadee (the two lifties let me on, even though each had the personality of a stiff, dead trout) and started hitchhiking back to my truck. Thanks to the friendly Public Safety employee who gave me a lift, the only bright spot in my otherwise dismal morning.
I got back to my truck, reached into the center console and...no pass. It was then that I realized for the first time that it was in my other jacket as I wore my soft shell on Alta's closing day two weeks ago. ](*,) My Epic Pass was sitting there, however, so I called the ticket office to see if they were offering a spring discount to pass holders from other resorts -- nope, I'd have to pay the full-freight walk-up price of $106. :shock:
At that point I said f*** it and went home, for there was no way that I was paying Snowbird a $64 "stupid tax." :evil: AmyZ asked if I was coming back up, but judging by the flow of cars coming up the canyon I'd have to park somewhere in Park City by the time I got back. Screw it, I'd rather do something like scoop dog s*** and mow the lawn.
Quite frankly Admin isn't and wasn't a customer yesterday. He could've bought a pass for $80, they'd advertised it all over. I had an offer in to my son to buy him a pass but he couldn't get out of bed.
