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Originally Posted by The SnowShow
You heard it, SLC/DEN is where it is at. The PNW/BC/AB have long lift lines, bumper to bumper traffic and the snow sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by S_jenks
If you still insist on traveling narth, decent discount options exist.
https://www.skilouise.com/louise_cards.php
https://skircr.com/purchase/rcr-rockies-card/
and for those with a pass at CB https://www.powderalliance.com
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“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s finest destinations, creating truly unique mountain experiences,” said Dave Fields, General Manager of Snowbird.
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It's not even close to the same level but I have a unlimited China Peak pass and get 3 Sunday-Friday non holiday tickets to each Powder Alliance resort. I always make a couple days at Sierra at Tahoe and am doing a Oregon trip this year. I will end up with 6-10 ski days for a $50 upgrade on my pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by adrenalated
I am hoping I can afford to get a Ikon pass too next year to ski Mammoth and Squaw Alpine more.
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Originally Posted by Danno
Sad to see CB dropped, that was fun while it lasted. Also sad I likely won't use Bachelor this spring or Alyeska days, but those are long shots anyways. A JH/Big Sky trip next year would be nice...
But, oh the details, and the price. I loved the added areas, but I think the price for a family will direct my purchases next year.
If I was selling it, I'd set it up like this:
Ikon Local (pick one unlimited mountain (prices vary (Aspen = $$$$)) and 4 days at all the others)
Ikon Double (pick two unlimited mountains + 7 days elsewhere)
Ikon Super (unlimited at the primary mountains + 10 elsewhere)
Because, at least when the Max Pass was rolled out last year, customers had a clear idea for price and options. This is just marketing bullshit right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by shredgnar
Well it looks like it got all of your attention right? Must be working. Suckers.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Well, duh, I've been a multi pass holder for three seasons. So, you know, sort of interested.
Doesn't matter, if the deal sucks, I go to Europe.
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Originally Posted by Summit
Mikeala Shiffin is pimping the Ikon on her social media.
You want a reason why there are no details being made public? Summit wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
This is the best deal and it seems like the decisions/details are still in the negotiating phase. We should all hope for something as cool as this. The $$$ for pass will make all the difference.
I nominate you for the Alterra marketing manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
The ikon pass. We own more resorts than anyone else and if you don’t buy our pass we will just buy your Resort.
Announce pass... get press.
Announce pass specifics and prices several weeks later... get more press.
Some of you really don't understand how this works?
There will likely be regional / state-based passes... just like Epic has the Tahoe local. Unlimited days in CA / CO / etc. and X days at all other resorts, etc.
Well, I should have been clearer. This is bad marketing. Bad marketing is all, pound my chest, look how great I am. Good marketing is, this is what I'm going to do for you. Or, from the customer angle, what's in it for me? Or stfu.
It's a niche market. Skiing market is fairly small, and the multi mountain pass buyer is much smaller. I'm that market. Retired, free time, like to travel, got a little money, have been in this market for a few years now. So, don't bullshit me. I'll tell you if your mountains are so great. You show me the deal.
Benny is their target market, yo, and if he says it's bad marketing it's bad marketing.
Damn right. And I know where the damn dam is, too.
The branding douches have been working overtime for 8 months on these really savvy, original names. First Alterra and now Ikon. It only took a few million dollars and several thousand committees and focus groups to come up with these winners....I thought Ikon made copiers though, well I guess in these folks minds its all the same, like selling 10lb bags of dorritos at Costco....welcome to the Alterra experience....only at Walmart. But just get pysched that you might get some free days at an out-of-state mountain while your the soul of your home mountain is sucked out like the Spaceballs Vacu-suck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSWdHY9Ny4
I'm a Mammoth weekender too, and this is intriguing. If the price is not too much higher I would jump on it, I have places to stay in Tahoe so to have squalpine on there would be great. Because I spend about 3k a year on my Mammoth ski lease I don't have much of a travel budget, but it is cheap to fly up to norcal and crash with one of my buddies there. If I did do some traveling this pass would be awesome, as Big Sky and Jackson and Alta/Bird are some of the few places I would actually travel too.Quote:
Originally Posted by comish
I hope they give a Mammoth only option, I don't want to pay more than $900 for my Mammoth pass.
I wonder what they will do for kids under 12?
I understand they named it "Ikon" because "icon" translates to something vulgar in some other language... possibly French?
^doubtful. it's a Greek root word
In Greek, there is no hard c. Kappa is roughly equivalent to a hard c or a k. Either Anglicized spelling is equivalent.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
as a ski bum who aint bought a season pass in a couple decades i'm epically ikonically stoked the bcc aint
The American Consumer, eagerly trading slightly lower prices for significantly lower quality since 1946. Follow the Herd!
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Originally Posted by blazes_boylan
Edgy, but I see you point. A lot of the blame does fall on the the insurance side of things. Lawsuits and new state/local laws over preceding decades have made it increasingly tough for any kind of 'mom and pop' resort to survive. Even if there's enough traffic to sustain you all season, you are probably paranoid about some Jerry suing your mountain over an injury they caused themselves, and likely to cost you many G's through litigation and eventual settlement. Shit, the amount of money a resort has to pay annually in insurance costs has got to be staggering. And all this does is just push the needle towards corporatization.Quote:
Originally Posted by blazes_boylan
Yeah, American consumers suck. But ski ares have been increasingly under the hammer each year, and things like the MC, Ikon, and Epic pass are a result of the squeeze they've been dealing with. All it takes is one or two players to have enough money and greed to start buying out a market like this, and then dominating it for years to come. For all of the smaller resorts, it's a tough choice they face.
True. I'm lucky enough to have 7 resorts within an hour of me to choose from here in Utah. If any of the four good ones are not on a Ikon/Mountain Collective/whatever deal, I'm going to strongly favor them for my season pass next year. The herd tramples the snow, f' that.Quote:
Originally Posted by blazes_boylan
Anyone have a subscription to the Denver Post? Go cut and paste the Ikon article that came out today here.
Looks like IKON will be a RMSP with extra days at other resorts for $899.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/business...-altasnowbird/
No unlimited skiing in UT, as most of us probably figured.
From the article:
Alterra Mountain Co. has thrown down an $899 season pass that offers unlimited skiing at 12 resorts and a lower-cost version to replace the beloved Rocky Mountain SuperPass, promising a season-pass war that will challenge Vail Resorts’ previously unrivaled Epic Pass and transform the ski resort industry.
The Ikon Pass — on sale March 6 at ikonpass.com — will offer unlimited access to Winter Park, Copper Mountain, Steamboat and Eldora and eight ski areas in California, Vermont, West Virginia and Canada, plus seven days of skiing each at six destination resorts: Utah’s Deer Valley, Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, Montana’s Big Sky, Canada’s Revelstoke, and Vermont’s Killington and Sugarbush. It also comes with a total of seven days at the four Aspen Snowmass resorts, AltaSnowbird in Utah, SkiBig3 in Canada (Banff Sunshine, Lake Louise and Mt. Norquay), and the trio of Sunday River, Sugarloaf and Loon Mountain in New England.
We’ll do the math for you: 26 destinations in nine states and four Canadian provinces, totaling almost 64,000 acres.
As a rival for the Epic Local Pass, the $599 Ikon Base Pass provides unlimited access to eight ski areas, including Winter Park, Copper Mountain, Eldora and areas in California, West Virginia and Canada. It comes with five days at each — with holiday restrictions — of these resorts: Steamboat, California’s Mammoth, Deer Valley, Jackson Hole, Big Sky, Vermont’s Stratton and Killington, Revelstoke and Sugarbush, plus five total days at AspenSnowmass, AltaSnowbird, SkiBig3 and the New England mountains. The base pass has blackout dates between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and the holiday weekends in January and February.
Kids 12 and under pay $199 for the Ikon Pass and $149 for the Ikon Base Pass with the purchase of an adult’s pass.
$900 for unlimited Winter Park, Copper, Steamboat, Squaw and Mammoth is ridiculous.
Putting Jackson, Revelstoke, Aspen, Big Sky, Snowbird and other heavy hitters on their at 7 days each is just gravy.
I'll give them some credit, they put a hell of a multi-mountain pass together.
Well fuck. As a Wasatch local 7 days really is just an ass pound.
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Great pass for Frangers and Cali. Hopefully it spreads the EPIC crowds out a bit. This pass is not for me, but I can see it being very popular with many other folks.
The locals in Steamboat just got really, really pissed.Quote:
Originally Posted by shredgnar
The only steamboat local I know is pretty stoked. THey just a massive reduction in pass price, a bunch of days at Jackson, Big Sky, Utah, and Front Range resorts added to their season pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
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Originally Posted by doebedoe
These multi mountain conglomerates don't give a shit about what the locals think, for better or worse.
Amazing pass. But god damn WP and Berthoud are going to be unmanageable on the weekends. I've already heard of at least a half dozen epic passers that were planning on switching before the prices were even released.