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Thread: Ikon Pass
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02-22-2018, 10:29 PM #201
Ikon Pass
Yeah I am tempted by ikon pass for the aspen option.
However the only local unlimited Ikon option that really appeals to me is copper. Eldora is a windy shithole. Winter park has too weird of a layout for my tastes and nothing there can really compete with the high alpine at Breck, the May skiing at ABasin, and beaver creek. I would stay on the Epic for those 3 things alone but vail and keystone are nice to have too.
I will stay epic and buy an aspen 4 pack if I want to go to aspen.Last edited by WTF is dat; 02-22-2018 at 10:50 PM.
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02-22-2018, 11:56 PM #202
Ikon over RMSP+ means $500 more in passes for me, the wife, and kids with less skiing where I want to be local to the FR. Ugh.
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02-23-2018, 12:00 AM #203
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02-23-2018, 12:17 AM #204Chowder Lover
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A basin is an anchor mountain for me. Late season without a basin would just not be right. Though Aspen could make me look past that.....agreed about not getting the alpine at Breck, nothing touches it for extended steeps. I haven’t skied the terrain at copper that used to be hike to with cat assist. Probably been 14 or 15 years since I skied there.
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02-23-2018, 12:19 AM #205
I for one welcome the Ikon overlords. Make vail rich again.
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02-23-2018, 06:45 AM #206
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02-23-2018, 06:47 AM #207
Both passes are at a lower price than I expected, for their perks. This will absolutely up the Denver-Aspen weekenders, but they won't necessarily have a lot of appropriate lodging options:
*wheels begin turning in my head on how to monetize the increased flow of weekend traffic*
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02-23-2018, 06:59 AM #208Registered User
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I get the $ thing (although RMSP+ would've gone up this year, and early season it was $539 last year) cause kids don't ski free.
But how is it less skiing? All the same resorts unlimited. And instead of 6 Steamboat + 3 CB days == 9 days on RMSP+, you get 5 Steamboat and 5 Aspen days == 10 days on the Ikon.
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02-23-2018, 07:09 AM #209
For a travel pass, this looks a lot better than I expected. $200 more than the Mountain Collective but a lot more days, plus the unlimited days at some places. The main negative vs the MC is Snowbasin, but more days at Alta or Snowbird offsets that.
I wonder if the idea is to make the pass look great on paper, knowing that very very few people will actually use a bunch of the days at farther away areas. They'll sell a bunch to people planning a vacation trip for a week, and the vacationers will get their money worth in that week.
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02-23-2018, 07:31 AM #210
In the East this is going to load up the weekend chump change skier visits at Sugarbush, Killington ,some of the Maine Resorts possibly.
Just what they need, more weekend traffic, Saturday especially.
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02-23-2018, 08:02 AM #211Registered User
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I hope this helps Copper and WP bear the brunt of weekend skiers more. No relief for I70 though. First Steamboat weekend pow day should be interesting. This is basically just the RMSP+ with more hype and better travel destinations. But how many ski trips out of state does the average Front ranger take? Especially with unlimited days at multiple resorts.
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02-23-2018, 08:15 AM #212Rope->Dope
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To the masses, Aspen days are much more appealing than Crested Butte.
Most people don't leave the state, maybe a single trip to SLC if the cards align. It's a big state with a ton of quality options, why rush to leave?
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02-23-2018, 08:25 AM #213"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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02-23-2018, 08:25 AM #214
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02-23-2018, 08:25 AM #215
East coaster/Tremblant skier here; I usually get the Sublime pass (it's pretty much a season pass, minus the busiest days), and the Ikon base looks like a good deal for me as it's an unlimited Tremblant pass, but includes some more mountains as well we will visit. I'm hoping the RFID will work at those gates, but I'm guessing it won't as the RFID gates are a 'privilege' with the $1400 season pass.
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02-23-2018, 08:27 AM #216
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02-23-2018, 08:31 AM #217Rope->Dope
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02-23-2018, 08:32 AM #218Registered User
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02-23-2018, 08:34 AM #219
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02-23-2018, 08:40 AM #220Registered User
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Seems like a perfect pass for someone like me stuck in Iowa. I'd take the blackout days as those weekends are already packed. $599 allows me to make a Thanksgiving trip to Copper; an early January trip to Steamboat and a Feb trip to Jackson/Big Sky or Alta/Bird. Kids are now out of the house and I can work remotely, so swinging the trips and just looking ahead for flights and hotels would make it possible to 3x my skiing.
I think I am the market they are after, not the locals. My normal 1 week guys trip to any major resort is still close to $100 a day for tickets. We go 4 days, so they can suck me in for an additional week someplace for food/drink/lodging.
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02-23-2018, 08:47 AM #221"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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02-23-2018, 08:49 AM #222Registered User
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02-23-2018, 08:54 AM #223
Of course. And $20 cheeseburgers too.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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02-23-2018, 08:56 AM #224
Anyone know what the wholesale rate is on lift tickets to Vail, WP, etc? Because a $600 season pass to someone in Iowa probably will net them at least that, I'm guessing.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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02-23-2018, 09:06 AM #225
Wow, just noticed it's only $149 for kids under 12 if you order by April 9th... that's pretty nuts, actually. Pays for itself on the second day, more or less.
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