Colorado Pass and Bike Access to Resorts

[pde20]

I was up in Vail this weekend and decided to go for a ride on the mountain. I thought that in years past your Colorado Pass gained you access to the lifts with your bike at no additional charge. I almost went nuclear when I rolled up to the Gondola and was told that I could indeed ride the lifts myself, but if my bike wanted to come along I needed to fork over another $30 to the evil empire. Now, if Joe Starter Jersey walks up to the window and wants to ride up the gondola by himself he pays $18. If same Joe Starter Jersey wants to take his bike he pays $30. Seems to me, logically, that ridiculous as it may be, the marginal price of hauling a bike up the mountain is $12, a price which I would happily fork over to skip a boring 2000 ft. slog up the vail cat tracks. But why the fuck should a season pass holder have to pay the same $30 to haul his bike and effectively buy his lift ticket twice?

Is this arrangment the same at Keystone for all you that ride there, or do you buy a bike pass for the summer in addition to Colorado Pass? Always strikes me that at Vail anyway to screw you out of a few more bucks will be the default option, regardless of season.

The ride, BTW, from eagle's nest out to vail pass via two elk pass and commando run was pretty nice, particularly the section from the top of the world down to shrine pass road. Excellent single track descent through there.

[babel]

Colorado Pass gets you 2 for 1 tickets at keystone on day passes. You can also pay for a season pass but don't know the specifics on any savings from the Colorado pass.

[pde20]

Colorado Pass gets you 2 for 1 tickets at keystone on day passes. You can also pay for a season pass but don't know the specifics on any savings from the Colorado pass.

Which would make it ~ $15 for a day pass, right? About what it should be at Vail if you didn't pay the "bent over backwards and forced to juggle nuts" tax that is always associated with vail.

[summit]

No season bike haul pass discounts. $270 but I'm not even sure it works at Breck or Vail.

2 for 1 bike tickets on the colorado pass.

Keystone prices are $30 full day, $15 single ride.

[Squatch]

Which would make it ~ $15 for a day pass, right? About what it should be at Vail if you didn't pay the "bent over backwards and forced to juggle nuts" tax that is always associated with vail.

Yeah, but can you really put a price on nut-juggling skills? Those come in handy all the time.

[smmokan]

I thought it was 2-for-1 at Vail as well?

[flowtron]

Vail doesn't have a "one ride" bike haul ticket?

Screw that place, get a buddy go to Keystone and have $15 of fun.

[smmokan]

The RM SuperPass is good for free bike lift tickets at WP and Copper, I believe.

[pde20]

The RM SuperPass is good for free bike lift tickets at WP and Copper, I believe.

I should have included that in the angry email I fired off to Vail resorts today. I would generally think this is a worthless gesture that would only make me feel a little better, but a few years ago I bitched about something and ended up in an email exchange with CEO Bill Jensen and out of that came four lift ticket vouchers.

[Staircase]

RM Super Pass gets you discount, but no free use of lifts. The winter and summer passes are two seperate seasons in the eyes of bullshit real estate developers.

And can we really complain about a $350 season ski pass not allowing access to the summer lifts? There is no other place in the country with prices this cheap.

[pde20]

RM Super Pass gets you discount, but no free use of lifts. The winter and summer passes are two seperate seasons in the eyes of bullshit real estate developers.

And can we really complain about a $350 season ski pass not allowing access to the summer lifts? There is no other place in the country with prices this cheap.

Yes, we can complain when they advertise free lift access all summer, but then decide that if you want to do anyting but spend money at their mountaintop restaurant or put your obese little monsters on the tramapoline you have to fork over more cash.

[Rontele]

Yes, we can complain when they advertise free lift access all summer, but then decide that if you want to do anyting but spend money at their mountaintop restaurant or put your obese little monsters on the tramapoline you have to fork over more cash.

children are fat in this country?

[Squatch]

children are fat in this country?

no. they're husky. then when they become adults they are "full-figured." Not fat. I'm ashamed you would even think about saying something so callous.

[SLSki]

VR claims that winter and summer ops are independant of eachother and therefore one must pay for a summer pass. Keystone and Vail are separate in terms of season passes, which is hard to swallow considering how much work the keystone crew puts in versus the vail crew. You could just try flashing your pass again next time you go to Vail, they only check for the bike haul part 20% of the time...if that.