I made a decision not to buy an Ikon Pass this year so I'll have to live with the walk up rate. Truth be told I sometimes pay more money for less enjoyable activities anyway.........
Mount Bachelor, OR 2/11-12/23
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Yes the Bachelor spring pass is break even by 3 days, worth considering.
I wonder if you can buy that pass at short notice? The number of days will come down to weather in the lead up I guess. If we were unlucky enough to have days of rain forecast I wouldn’t spend more than a day there I wouldn’t think.
Liftopia very publicly crashed and burned three years ago, leaving many ski areas out large amounts of revenue -- this article provides some details. Major resorts were better equipped to eat the loss but it was a big deal for small independent mountains with extremely thin margins and I don't recall if they were ever made whole through the bankruptcy.
Individual advance-sale lift tickets in North America are sold on ski areas' own sites these days and due to the prevailing model of continent-wide passes to major resorts (Ikon, Epic Pass) and independent ski areas (Indy Pass), they aren't usually much of a deal, even if you purchase weeks ahead of time. This circles back to Tony and I citing in the Europe thread the huge advantage for variety-seekers in the Alps because the window price of lift tickets there is in most cases a third or a fourth of what a similar mountain would cost in the U.S., allowing us to literally wait until the last minute to decide where to ski on a given day, if so inclined, without getting gouged.
tseeb
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I’ll ask my Bend friend that I will be skiing and staying with this upcoming weekend if he has any contacts or ideas on lift tickets. He would probably be willing to show you around his mountain and a brewpub or two.
There is always https://bend.craigslist.org/search/tia?query=bachelor but like the man says “you pay your money and take your chances”. The only problem I ever had was when I bought ticket for my son that someone has disclosed number to Northstar and they’d flagged it. It’s not legal but sometimes it can be employee making a little extra.
There is always https://bend.craigslist.org/search/tia?query=bachelor but like the man says “you pay your money and take your chances”. The only problem I ever had was when I bought ticket for my son that someone has disclosed number to Northstar and they’d flagged it. It’s not legal but sometimes it can be employee making a little extra.
yes, I hate the buy in advance model for the most part, although some areas you can still buy a day before and get a great rate (Tamarack ID $55 the night before vs 115 walkup).
I don't follow all that many resorts, but the dynamically based lift ticket (based on demand) is favorable for some places.
I don't follow all that many resorts, but the dynamically based lift ticket (based on demand) is favorable for some places.
I had no idea about Liftopia.
Japan is good for variety and cheap tickets too.
Thanks. It would be nice to have someone direct me around the south side of the hill if it’s good weather.
Don’t forget to tell him to keep his expectations low. I’m sure he’s never skied with a gaper from Australia.
Wow, that's reasonable!