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Thread: A-Basin skiers can eat a bag of dicks

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    Fuuuuu

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    Fuck me

    God damn it

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    And so it goes...

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    FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK Alterra and FUUUUUCCKK VAIL

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    I guess A Basin skiers are going to eat that bag of dicks after all.

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    Fuck me.....I'm going to cry.
    Old's Cool.

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    "The Sherman Act also makes it illegal to monopolize, conspire to monopolize, or attempt to monopolize a market for products or services."

    https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrus...0or%20services.


    Also, the owners selling out to Vail/Alterra are spineless fucks.

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    This sucks. I don't want a fucking overpriced Ikon pass to only ski Abasin (have zero interest in skiing Copper, Wanker Park, etc.). Alterra can eat a bag of dicks.

    Edit: Guarantee they will figure out a way to expand the parking and/or charge big $$ for both early riser and high noon. All lots have been filling up the past few weekends, yet as long as you move around correctly, you rarely end up waiting in line.

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    So much for antitrust rules. Two companies are going to own the entire industry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevo View Post
    So much for antitrust rules. Two companies are going to own the entire industry.
    There's always Europe.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevo View Post
    I guess A Basin skiers are going to eat that bag of dicks after all.
    A big, giant fucking bag.

    I'm out. Maybe I'll get in a ski vaca sort of trip every now and then but I'm pretty much done with skiing for a while. We are moving to an old desert mining town!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ColMan View Post
    Edit: Guarantee they will figure out a way to expand the parking and/or charge big $$ for both early riser and high noon. All lots have been filling up the past few weekends, yet as long as you move around correctly, you rarely end up waiting in line.
    Well, over the last 15 years or so they have had a massive increase in terrain and uphill lift capacity with zero increase in parking, so yeah, I suspect increasing parking will be the first thing they look at.

    It sucks, but can't say it is unexpected.
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    Watch them build a two story garage in High Noon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The SnowShow View Post
    Watch them build a two story garage in High Noon.
    Two story? While you're pouring concrete, pour 5-6 levels.

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    Wow I hate everything about this. $20 bloody's incoming. Only positive I could see coming is unlimited access for the '24 pass season, but I'm not even sure that's a good thing (as a current Ikon passholder). I'd rather be limited to 5 days to improve the experience.

    Huge bummer, big disappointment, etc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeadSnow77 View Post
    Wow I hate everything about this. $20 bloody's incoming. Only positive I could see coming is unlimited access for the '24 pass season, but I'm not even sure that's a good thing (as a current Ikon passholder). I'd rather be limited to 5 days to improve the experience.

    Huge bummer, big disappointment, etc...
    Total speculation, but I'd bet they maintain A-Basin as a "premium" resort. Maybe they'll even eliminate it from the Base Ikon.


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    Quote Originally Posted by skaredshtles View Post
    Two story? While you're pouring concrete, pour 5-6 levels.
    Indeed. I often wonder why this isn't really a thing for most ski areas. I'm guessing the costs to build and maintain those structures is a lot. Overall the footprint of going upward instead of outward seems environmentally responsible but there's always the NIMBYS that would probably say it's an eyesore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by raisingarizona13 View Post
    Indeed. I often wonder why this isn't really a thing for most ski areas. I'm guessing the costs to build and maintain those structures is a lot. Overall the footprint of going upward instead of outward seems environmentally responsible but there's always the NIMBYS that would probably say it's an eyesore.
    I think you also need to build them taller than a typical garage, to account for SUVs with cargo boxes and van lifers, which makes them even more $$$. I cannot fit in most garages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skaredshtles View Post
    Total speculation, but I'd bet they maintain A-Basin as a "premium" resort. Maybe they'll even eliminate it from the Base Ikon.

    Honestly, best case scenario.

    I am only slightly relieved as I had previously feared that Abasin would leave Ikon pass altogether. Not sure which of these scenarios is worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeadSnow77 View Post
    Honestly, best case scenario.

    I am only slightly relieved as I had previously feared that Abasin would leave Ikon pass altogether. Not sure which of these scenarios is worse.
    This is much worse

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danno View Post
    I think you also need to build them taller than a typical garage, to account for SUVs with cargo boxes and van lifers, which makes them even more $$$. I cannot fit in most garages.
    True
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    Cashless resort

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    GODDAMMIT. After all the press A Basin has gotten this year about how they were increasingly profitability and guest experience without selling out...

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    Oh to be a fly on the wall at 6th Alley right about now.

    It really is a punch to the gut for my old-school self.

    I never even use all my A-Basin days due to distance, but it was always a nice option early and then late season on choice days.

    It's such a catch-22 for me as a 50-50 skier, resort/bc, living in a now Ikon-owned resort town. You resort to buying it since the Steamboat-only pass is several hundred dollars more. And I love having skiing options; WP after the boat closes, random weekday visits to Copper, and obv WY and UT resorts every other year or so. But damn I hate what Alterra has done to sbt and I really don't want to give them my money anymore.. But that means no options. And Alterra knows it. So...grrr....

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