[Argo]

Bachelor passes will go up again next season and will continue to until the pass sales dont reach a certain goal. They passed it already, 2 weeks ago.

Weekend riding got more crowded last season than prior years bot 30-35% of it was max pass. Thats gone this season. Im happy to pay the price and hope the crowd is less this year. Ive heard of meetings to be on ikon and(ugh)epic.... if thats the case weekend and holidays are going to he destroyed.

As for weekend powder, i get up there for first chair and get some laps. If nwx/obx doesn't open i bail after 10. Sucks for people driving in, im 22 minutes away though...

 

[Argo]

I guess maybe your version of rich and my version of rich are different. Living in vail for 5 years showed me what my version of rich is..... Bend is very far from that.

As for crowds going down from pass price, i just like that it stays about the same, they sold 1000 less passes this year than last. There is no more max pass or any conglomeratefor bachelor, that was 30%+ of the crowds over the last 2 seasons.

Im happy that people are not liking the price or the lack of amenities as you stated. Thats good for me and other people that live here and only ride bachelor, bad for people that dont live in town.

 

[Argo]

Just about every person I know that's gotten burned out on Colorado has moved to either Gresham or Bend. Although your definition of crowds is probably a lot less than what we experience every weekend here.

Boise will be the next big hot spot, calling it now. Which is fine, maybe all these people will move the fuck away from Breckenridge.

Bozeman and Whitefish are gonna pop too..also Leavenworth WA...

 

[Argo]

I have no desire to argue with some fucktard who has never set foot in Boise. You keep having fun living in your "awesome mountain town" of SLC or Denver pumpkin. Leave the mountain towns for those of us with a brain.

I like Boise for sure but it is not a mountain town. Its somewhere between SLC and a real mountain town. Park city is more of a mountain town than Boise. Boise is like Bend(where I live), a big town/small city, with all the amenities for normal city life, that is in close proximity to a ski area.

 

[Argo]

HAHA tis true. Although for Oregon I'm not talking about lift lines, or even crowds in general it's more even being able to get to the mountain to sit in a lift line. And then about terrain/facilities/views vs crowd.

Pick, someone offers you a season pass to Timberline or a pass to Breck which you picking (based solely on the riding and crowds, not living area)

Timberline would be WAY down on my list. I lived walking distance to the lifts in Vail, lionshead village side, yet chose to move and settle in bend.

The crowds have gotten intense in CO all year long. Bachelors busiest weekends are no where even close to what an average weekend is in the front range. Even when there is a long line at the base of Pine, skyliner or Sunrise, NWX will be empty.

But, having said that. Colorado is the best, everyone should pick Keystone over ALL....