Snow in the PNW 20-21: We may have Corona but Corona doesn't have us!

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Originally Posted by thejongiest

I can’t totally agree with this. They need to set aside some day tickets for daily lift sales. Cmon.

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Totally disagree with this.

It would be one thing if daily ticket sales came out of the same overall number of allowable reservations for a given day. But the current situation is that passholders cannot reserve days that they are selling day tickets for.

use your friends and family discounts when you reserve

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Originally Posted by nwslider

use your friends and family discounts when you reserve

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There’s only 8. What if I want to use them somewhere with a more expensive daily ticket?


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Originally Posted by thejongiest

There’s only 8. What if I want to use them somewhere with a more expensive daily ticket?

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Sounds like your girlfriend should have bought a pass if she wanted to ski this many days?

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Originally Posted by thejongiest

I can’t totally agree with this. They need to set aside some day tickets for daily lift sales. Cmon.

Ikon fucked up, they should have made passes that reflected the reality that all of us can’t ski every day. They should have done capped local unlimited passes. Passes that require reservations, passes that only give you so many days etc.

They should have had many more price tiers.

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They didn't do any of this and sold unlimited seasons passes.
It sucks for the days skiers, but we who are pass holders didn't have an agreement that our passes were limited.

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Originally Posted by thejongiest

Yes, but my girlfriend does not. So what, she just can never ski a weekend?

Ikon fucked up, but they probably are reserving some spots for pass holders and some for daily ticket sales. What that ratio should be, I feel is reasonable to discuss.

If they are allowing say 5000 people (throwing a number out there), I think they having 4500 pass holders and 500 day tickets is reasonable.

But they also need to be transparent about these numbers, which you know these fuckers won’t be.

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Again, we bought unlimited season passes. Alterra is breaking the contract by requiring reservations at all.

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Originally Posted by Roxxygirl

Sup faggots, umm I mean maggots. I used to be beardmech, but I decided testosterone is for dicks and I much rather be a pussy. I just wanted to let people know I am not dead or back in prison. I must decided to transition when the ski season closed. Roxxy appeared. Tits and all. TLDR Beardmech = transgender lesbian woman, Roxxy

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Do you still have a beard, though?

P.S. Most of us can't read your post when you use a dark color for the text.

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Originally Posted by californiagrown

Paging Altasnob....

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The one time we need him to be quoting RCW and contract language he’s nowhere to be found


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I commit to doing my best to cancel my reso’s if I cannot go. Hopefully some mags can sneak in some cancellations


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Originally Posted by The AD

Do you still have a beard, though?

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It probably helps to hide his Adam's apple?

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Originally Posted by thejongiest

Getting insurance to cover the boob job is the only way to go

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mine are all natural. TIt jobs are for the weak. They are probably bigger than all your wives in only 6 months.

an nah beards gone. It did have advantages.

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Originally Posted by The AD

Do you still have a beard, though?

P.S. Most of us can't read your post when you use a dark color for the text.

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huh i didn't realize it was colored. Its black on my comp.

No day passes at crystal? I have to buy a pack or the local pass? IF i can get unemployment for this week sitting on my ass with a common cold, this girl should be good to ride,

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

It probably helps to hide his Adam's apple?

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You don't have to find me valid, but I'd appreciate it if you gender me correctly.

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Originally Posted by Roxxygirl

mine are all natural. TIt jobs are for the weak. They are probably bigger than all your wives in only 6 months.

an nah beards gone. It did have advantages.

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Oh.

So you just got fat is what I’m hearing.

Sad.

We could of used another chick around here. The 3 we have are saints for what they put up with and could use a break.


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Originally Posted by Roxxygirl

huh i didn't realize it was colored.

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That doesn’t sound right.

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Originally Posted by AK47bp

Oh.

So you just got fat is what I’m hearing.

Sad.

We could of used another chick around here. The 3 we have are saints for what they put up with and could use a break.


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Quite the opposite. I'm 165lbs with 36Cs i pump that estradiol and progesterone llike I'm getting swoll. Instead my tits get swollen. For as chick I'm quite fit. Being a translesbian is preferable over being a cis-het male (im really pansexual, homoromantic - ie I will fuck anyone I'm attracted too and only date women.

I split with my babies momma so now I'm broke and kidless for an interm till I can get my own spot. Skiing obviously takes a priority, so today while I'm under quranatine I'm going to make love to my girls and get ready to hitch hike next weekend. The one things I've always been is have a bit of reckless abondone with my life when it comes to skiing. Ski or die.

So I’m at a loss of what to do if you are making your decision to ski or not at 6am based on snowfall, etc . Are you supposed to make a reservation just in case or try to make one the morning of ? Asking for a friend

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Originally Posted by greenmachine

So I’m at a loss of what to do if you are making your decision to ski or not at 6am based on snowfall, etc . Are you supposed to make a reservation just in case or try to make one the morning of ? Asking for a friend

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Yes.



But honestly who knows. This weekend should give some good Intel on what's actually happening vs what they're saying online.
I have a really hard time believing they're going to turn people out of the lift line if they scan a pass without a reservation. Maybe ikon will blacklist you from a pass next year if you do it a bunch. Who knows. All I know is my unlimited pass sure doesn't seem unlimited.

I don't like the idea of a reservation system, but I understand why we need to have it given this unique season, so I'm fine with it. What I am very much not fine with is selling day tickets on days when Ikon or local passholders have exceeded the reservation limit. I agree with others here, day tickets should only be sold 24 hours ahead of time on days when reservation caps have not been met. I get that Crystal makes a good deal of money from day tickets, but screwing over season pass holders feels pretty shitty. It would be one thing if Ikon passholders, local passholders, and day ticket sales all had to make reservations at the same time. It's another thing entirely when Ikon slots are maxed out, but day tickets are still being sold. Such BS.

Say what you will about Vail, and trust me, I have a lot of negative things to say, but they did a much better job planning for this season than Alterra did. Vail planned for the worst by starting off with a reservation system, whereas Alterra claimed that Crystal wouldn't require reservations...until days before Crystal opened. At least people buying Epic Passes knew what they were getting into. Again, I don't fault Crystal for doing reservations, it's probably the right thing to do now, what I'm pissed about is the bait-and-switch. Honestly, I'm not surprised at all that Crystal went the reservations route, and if I'm not surprised, you have to imagine that the higher-ups at Alterra probably had a good idea that it was coming down the line but chose not to say anything about it until after most passes were sold.

I know that skiing is already an expensive sport, but for next season, unlimited Crystal should only be part of the full Ikon Pass, whereas the Base Pass should only have 5 holiday-restricted days. And let's increase the price of the full Ikon Pass while we're at it. With a growing population and increasing appetite for powder, we have to limit access to the resorts unless we want them to be insanely crowded. I would be in full support of increasing the supply of lift-served skiing by expanding existing resorts or adding new ones, but that's not going to happen. Without price increases, caps on the number of passes sold (fat chance), or permanent reservations systems, this shit is going to keep getting crazier.

Cuz it isn’t. Shit is fucked up. Also agree with parking pass comments above.

Today was good skiing and the upside of what they’re doing is very manageable crowds.

We just checked and couldn’t see where a day ticket was available when a pass holder res was not, but didn’t dig too deep on that.

Also, how the hell do I make/manage my reservation on the ikon app?


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Originally Posted by oftpiste

Also, how the hell do I make/manage my reservation on the ikon app?

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I think you have to go to Ikon web page?

That worked. Thanks. Weird the doesn’t work for that. Xtal instructions say it does.


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Originally Posted by jayx

I don't like the idea of a reservation system, but I understand why we need to have it given this unique season, so I'm fine with it. What I am very much not fine with is selling day tickets on days when Ikon or local passholders have exceeded the reservation limit. I agree with others here, day tickets should only be sold 24 hours ahead of time on days when reservation caps have not been met. I get that Crystal makes a good deal of money from day tickets, but screwing over season pass holders feels pretty shitty. It would be one thing if Ikon passholders, local passholders, and day ticket sales all had to make reservations at the same time. It's another thing entirely when Ikon slots are maxed out, but day tickets are still being sold. Such BS.

Say what you will about Vail, and trust me, I have a lot of negative things to say, but they did a much better job planning for this season than Alterra did. Vail planned for the worst by starting off with a reservation system, whereas Alterra claimed that Crystal wouldn't require reservations...until days before Crystal opened. At least people buying Epic Passes knew what they were getting into. Again, I don't fault Crystal for doing reservations, it's probably the right thing to do now, what I'm pissed about is the bait-and-switch. Honestly, I'm not surprised at all that Crystal went the reservations route, and if I'm not surprised, you have to imagine that the higher-ups at Alterra probably had a good idea that it was coming down the line but chose not to say anything about it until after most passes were sold.

I know that skiing is already an expensive sport, but for next season, unlimited Crystal should only be part of the full Ikon Pass, whereas the Base Pass should only have 5 holiday-restricted days. And let's increase the price of the full Ikon Pass while we're at it. With a growing population and increasing appetite for powder, we have to limit access to the resorts unless we want them to be insanely crowded. I would be in full support of increasing the supply of lift-served skiing by expanding existing resorts or adding new ones, but that's not going to happen. Without price increases, caps on the number of passes sold (fat chance), or permanent reservations systems, this shit is going to keep getting crazier.

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Well said. I think they should have a much finer granularity on how many ski days you want and where you want to ski. 5/10/15/20/Unlimited day options. Local resorts or everywhere.

When you have only 15 days, you’ll think twice about whether you want to ski a given Saturday. When you have unlimited you don’t even think.

Also, I hate to say it, but maybe reservations should always be required with a top-of-the-line pass option that doesn’t require them.

They can still make the same amount of money by increasing prices and adding granularity. And for the majority of users it won’t affect access or their price. For the small subset here it will affect your price, probably by thousands. But hey, that might be worth it to ski without the clusterfuck and get up at 6am instead of 4qm.

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Originally Posted by thejongiest

Well said. I think they should have a much finer granularity on how many ski days you want and where you want to ski. 5/10/15/20/Unlimited day options. Local resorts or everywhere.

When you have only 15 days, you’ll think twice about whether you want to ski a given Saturday. When you have unlimited you don’t even think.

Also, I hate to say it, but maybe reservations should always be required with a top-of-the-line pass option that doesn’t require them.

They can still make the same amount of money by increasing prices and adding granularity. And for the majority of users it won’t affect access or their price. For the small subset here it will affect your price, probably by thousands. But hey, that might be worth it to ski without the clusterfuck and get up at 6am instead of 4qm.

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Have you actually ever skied at Crystal?

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Originally Posted by californiagrown

Anyone want to let a jong tag along for a tour tomorrow? I did my Avy1 a few years ago, am decently fit, but typically only get out for a handful of tours pre/post season each year.

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Anyone? I'll bring beer and snacks to share in a covid safe kinda way?