Edelweiss Chair and beyond... Alpental , The valley and the rest of snocrummy

[CHAIR_97]

Hey! Fuck you!!

I didn't know you identified as a Fairweather crystal kook. You are always welcome but yeah fuck you too lol

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[Buster Highmen]

I didn't know you identified as a Fairweather crystal kook. You are always welcome but yeah fuck you too lol

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Sorry, I couldn't pass up the opportunity.

Especially when it gets at the ridiculous religious divisions between Crustal, Alpy and Stevens skiers. Like a bunch of old biddys, some Lutheran, some Protestant, some Presbyterian all snibbling about the failure of the others true understanding.

[Dromond]

On Stokes, Wall Street and Elevator gate goods?

Point being, you choose your densities.

I find Elevator gets smashed in record time these days - before you can even get back for another lap sometimes. I’d still trade long lines for myself and others skiing more of the time.

[Buster Highmen]

You're entitled to your choice.
It's a done deal, so I'm just whining.

But I'll make mine.

[californiagrown]

You're entitled to your choice.

I think that choice was already made for us. Now its just a choice of how to feel about the results... whatever they may be.


For now, Ill take the glass half-full option, as there have been too many days in the past few years where the lines have been super long on days without any recent snow, and i would have loved to just lap skied out fun bumps, or to take multiple quick laps out E and Nash gates to poke around but the long lift lines allowed for only 3-4 laps before noon. Especially as more of my onhill ski time gets taken up with my young kid, quick hitting laps with minimal lift lines gains in importance for me.

[Buster Highmen]

Yup, everyone is making their quantity over quality 'choice' pretty clear, glad handing the inevitable. I'm confused as to how a choice for me is made by some else though.

In the middle of all the forced half full sentiments and wonderful assessments of the new chair, I'll miss the on hill sparseness. Hopefully I'm wrong about eggcarton bumps on Elevator.

Alpy has turned into such a shitshow, on parking and on hill, I'm doing Central and Silver Fir more, even though it's not as "core". The winds have shifted there in more ways than one.

43 years there now and still not a local.

[m2711c]

Maybe the Alpental Chef will finally add a nice soup to the menu, or a bread bowl for their fartbag fuel.


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adding a quality soup to the menu will seriously increase the amount of east coast skiers on yer slopes...


fact.

[2Harsh]

The expanded schedule is a plus for me - Mondays for me at Alpental - and convincing the kids to play hooky and hit Hyak on Fridays. I think that is just for Jan/Feb.

Are Mondays back in play for Alpy this winter?

[AK47bp]

Life must be pretty good these days if a local ski area adding a new chair lift causes sorrow.




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[nickwm21]

Just Washingtonians doing what they do best - Complaining


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[HappyCamper]

Are Mondays back in play for Alpy this winter?

Yes -

2024-25 Winter Schedule Changes

We are excited to share that we plan to expand our schedule next season, giving passholders more opportunities to enjoy our unique mountain areas.

• Adding Fridays at Summit East(Jan. through Feb.)
• Adding Mondays at Alpental(Dec holidays through February)
• We also plan to shift Alpental nights to Thursday - Saturday

https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/season-passes

[phatty]

I'm still the most upset about losing two nights at Alpy each week. I loved Tuesday and Wednesday nights up there. Also bummed that Powder Tuesday is gone now. It was a unique thing that we took for granted. Now that it's gone, I think a lot of folks will realize how awesome it was.

Bring back more Alpy nights! Central and West suck!

[Dromond]

…Especially as more of my onhill ski time gets taken up with my young kid, quick hitting laps with minimal lift lines gains in importance for me.

Yeah I think your opinion on it may vary based on your position in life. Ten years ago I was more into being there for 8 hours to ski 6 laps, but now, with a little one, I just want to be skiing for the time that I am there as I don’t get to go as often and can’t always stay all day.

Losing some early midweek nights really hurts IMO since the overall demand is just so high. I love night skiing there and am starting to enjoy that even more than skiing during the day, just due to the novelty and short lines.

I’ll miss the powder Tuesdays of yore, but recently I started avoiding them because the place gets so jacked up with like 800 people in line before the lift starts loading.

[BaseFloopy]

Bummer about nights at Alpental. Maybe the plan will be readjusted.
Otherwise at least you can all rejoice that my ikonic invasions will likely number less than seven.

[californiagrown]

I got the unlimited pass + IKON addon. I also just got shoulder surgery that puts me out for the next 4-6 months. If I call in and ask for my 24/25 snoqualmie pass to be credited toward next year, do I get to keep my IKON pass for this year? Seems like a nice loophole, if so.

[CHAIR_97]

PARKING PERMITS!



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[AK47bp]

PARKING PERMITS!



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https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/parking-guide

I’m not mad at this. Pretty nice actually.


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[CHAIR_97]

Oh you will be .
This is a money grab
You think management cares about your experience [emoji38] wrong bucko


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[phatty]

If I have a remedy pass, do I get a parking pass? I did Ikon plus remedy as I know I'll be traveling a lot weekends before March when Remedy allows weekends.

Parking on the road will get that much worse.

[AK47bp]

General day parking pass if you don’t have a lift ticket is $55. Holeee sheeet

That should drastically reduce the sledders, snowshoers, and BC skiers clogging up the lots.

Enforcement will be interesting


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[Yonder_River]

It'll be interesting to see how they enforce it, but I am happy to see them at least try to reduce the non-lift users occupying parking spaces. Something had to give.

[bfree]

Where did they even come up with that number? Nobody is going to pay $55. Nobody. People will either gamble and assume Summit mismanagement won't enforce it, or just go somewhere else. Maybe that's their goal.

There ought to be quite the black market for those $5 codes from all the Ikoners that carpooled and thus didn't use all of their codes for their ski days.

And isn't the uphill season pass (parking included) only $50? So effectively the parking season pass is cheaper than a single day.

[Stairmaster]

Oh you will be .
This is a money grab
You think management cares about your experience [emoji38] wrong bucko


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Are you going to be mad when it's slightly less of a shit show in the parking lot? They had to do something.

We know they will never cap season tickets based on how many days people actually use them. They do seem to throttle day tickets between price and availability.

If they really cared they would boot the Ikon folks out.

I'm not mad about this.

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[Fishskisurf]

This seems solid to me and wish other resorts would follow suit. Sledders, wanderers and looky loo’s can go elsewhere.
Passholders are being prioritized in this program
Ikon a nominal fee
And big disincentive for non-customers to stay out of the lots.
Win for all who pay to ride the lifts?

[puma]

Seems like a positive.