Rear. Though its 4wd it isnt a 50-50 split on power sent to axles. I believe 4runners (or at least gen 4) is a 40-60 split front to rear. Someone please correct me if i am wrong though.
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"Robust sales"
28,000 Crystal Ikon passes.
...apparently.
More reading: get those day passes early!
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/ou...-local-slopes/
A TOUGH BUT NECESSARY DECISION
Effective Saturday, January 18th, we have taken a decision to preserve the aspect of what we all love about this mountain – a community resort, with an uncommercial and pristine environment and amazing skiing and riding. It was a tough call – we are skiers at heart and turning away those who love the mountain is not in our nature. But something needs to change for the community good.
We will discontinue selling walk-up full day tickets at the ticket booths on weekends and holidays in order to hold skier visits to what our roads and parking infrastructure is designed to handle. will monitor this closely and make adjustments as we continue to learn how this will impact our guests and the mountain.
On weekends and holidays, we will continue to honor all Ikon Pass holders, purchasers of any advanced ticket product such as 5-pack vouchers, advance single days tickets, and other such products.
We will offer a finite amount of advance tickets online for weekends and holidays. But we will limit the available quantities of these day tickets based on a consideration of variables such as the snow forecast, mountain conditions, traffic, road conditions, and any other factors that contribute to people making their decision to ski on that day.
Our belief is that this will have the effect of capping total numbers of skiers to a level that our roads and parking infrastructure can accommodate while still providing a premium experience.
In the short term, for this season we will continue to reinforce our efforts to give timely and transparent travel and parking information. We will continue investing large sums in providing bus service to Crystal. We will continue incenting our customers to carpool. And in the coming weeks, we will be announcing new and more rewarding incentives to our customers who visit on weekdays.
This initiative is a part of maintaining our untrammeled experience and the rustic nature of why we love Crystal. Like everyone, we need to begin to change our behavior to help sustain our ski experience now and for future generations. Our commitment is to provide our guests with a superior experience - we believe that these steps will move us towards that objective. As a community, we all love Crystal, but right now it’s a mountain that is feeling too much love and we are taking decisive action to preserve what it means to all of us.
With respect and gratitude.
Frank DeBerry
President & COO
and the link if ya want....https://www.crystalmountainresort.co...dAklFYLHZgJTwA
I've heard they are metering car counts just out of the 'claw already?
Today the lines for gondy and CH were up the hill at 8:30. Crazy. Monday? Never seen that in many years of skiing there. It thinned out quick once spinning and was a crazy good pow day.
Also, I remember skiing at Northstar in the mid '70's. They'd just opened and their marketing pitch was all about how they limited the number of tix sold each day so there would never be lift lines. Them's was the dayz, eh?
I really (really) appreciate the sentiment, but I don't believe walk-ups are the problem. Rumor has it they sold 3X IKONs vs. the number of crystal passes previously sold. That's the problem.
I wish it didn't feel like lip service.
The real problem is the explosive population growth of the Puget Sound region.
AKA, blame California.
My brother isn’t going to be happy as a single ticket buying dad with a daughter who’s showing interest
Just buy online the night before. Easy.
This is a no win for Alterra.
To have willingly sold as many season passes as possible, far more than the resources can accommodate and the solution is to effectively bar those families that can't afford $700 per family member?
A clear breach of the Public Trust by conglomerates.
As long as people buy the John Galt myth, it's just going to get worse.
I hate to say it but they need to limit ikon days to 5 on the base pass, just like every other ikonic destination.
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Pretty insane that Crystal got the Stevens problem but made it worse. I would have thought with a better road, and lack of 2 way traffic they would be able to manage for a little while longer.