Crystal Mountain Becomes Alterra

**TripleT** · 11-29-2020, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by neutrinoone

Click Community, Click Forum, Scroll to bottom for Lift Accessed Reports.

Hot damn! Soup talk lives!!!

**neutrinoone** · 11-29-2020, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by TripleT

Hot damn! Soup talk lives!!!

Took me a hot minute to find after the update but about the most accurate Crystal report on the interwebs! Convinced me to re-up my Ikon after Crystal said last Sunday would be the most crowded day of the season and it wasn't even near last January's shitshow...

**oftpiste** · 11-29-2020, 09:14 AM

Now that it has gone to shit?

Originally Posted by TripleT

Been away from the forums for sometime, so my apologies if this has been discussed. But it’s important...how the hell do I get my DDK and crew reports now that TAY site gone to shit?!?!

**PNW_Skier206** · 11-29-2020, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by XavierD

Likely also a lot more folks are driving to Crystal and not using the lifts too. If you thought everyone had gotten into touring before this year, you’d be wrong. Plenty of people who didn’t kill themselves on their brand new mountain bikes have gotten a MyFirstTouring(TM) setup this year too.

This! I’ve seen more people putting skins on in the Crystal Parking lot than ever.

Although for the most part the skin track hasn’t been crowded when I’ve been out so not sure where they’re going.

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**TripleT** · 11-29-2020, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by oftpiste

Now that it has gone to shit?

Eh, ya it’s been a slow steady decline

**jacob_dbu** · 11-29-2020, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Stairmaster

Used a few days and went to book more. Fucked to see ever weekend is booked solid through February.

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They need a better system. I'm sure some will come available over time, but I can't check the website every 10 seconds.

**cstefanic** · 12-01-2020, 11:58 AM

"Reservations must remain active for the entire day on which your pass is scanned to ski or ride. Cancellation of your reservation after your pass is scanned is a violation of the reservation program."

Cool.

**jacob_dbu** · 12-01-2020, 02:20 PM

So do I have any hope of booking Sunday 12/13 or am I just screwed?

**Hammer-Down** · 12-01-2020, 04:21 PM

still looking for a saturday 12/12 day if someone has had a change of plans and needs to throw a spot back........save me from touring that day and making dumb decisions.

**pyromaniacman129** · 12-01-2020, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by thejongiest

So do I have any hope of booking Sunday 12/13 or am I just screwed?

You might get lucky if someone cancels and you can snag it. I'd just check frequently.

I have reservations for as many weekends as i could get through Jan. Almost afraid to scan my pass this weekend and lose the possibility of deferring if its as big of a shitshow as it sounds up there.

**jacob_dbu** · 12-01-2020, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by pyromaniacman129

You might get lucky if someone cancels and you can snag it. I'd just check frequently.

I have reservations for as many weekends as i could get through Jan. Almost afraid to scan my pass this weekend and lose the possibility of deferring if its as big of a shitshow as it sounds up there.

Same. Sounds like we need to start a TGR Crystal Reservation Swap Thread.

**Hammer-Down** · 12-01-2020, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by thejongiest

Same. Sounds like we need to start a TGR Crystal Reservation Swap Thread.

This......I'm willing to give beer for 12/12. GF and I skiing for a few days, shes got both weekends days covered, I have sunday but not saturday.

**californiagrown** · 12-01-2020, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Hammer-Down

This......I'm willing to give beer for 12/12. GF and I skiing for a few days, shes got both weekends days covered, I have sunday but not saturday.

Just go. Your pass will scan and you'll get your warning email later that night. Everyone gets 1 apparently....

**Buster Highmen** · 12-01-2020, 07:25 PM

Let's set up a bond market and sell futures on Crustal reservations.

**powder_to_the_people** · 12-01-2020, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Hammer-Down

This......I'm willing to give beer for 12/12. GF and I skiing for a few days, shes got both weekends days covered, I have sunday but not saturday.

I might be able to help, PM me.

**Hammer-Down** · 12-02-2020, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by powder_to_the_people

I might be able to help, PM me.

PM sent....thanks

**The AD** · 12-02-2020, 09:59 AM

This is all great news for Mt. Baker.

**pyromaniacman129** · 12-02-2020, 11:15 AM

Was going to go back to Baker this season and didn't. Major facepalm right now.
Though I've heard they are having their fair share of issues up there with compliance and slammed weekends.

**thefortrees** · 12-02-2020, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by cstefanic

"Reservations must remain active for the entire day on which your pass is scanned to ski or ride. Cancellation of your reservation after your pass is scanned is a violation of the reservation program."

Cool.

Wow ain't that some shit. "We didn't foresee this problem, and our system can't change, so it is your fault if you do something the system allows you to do and you may lose your pass"

**The AD** · 12-02-2020, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by pyromaniacman129

Was going to go back to Baker this season and didn't. Major facepalm right now.
Though I've heard they are having their fair share of issues up there with compliance and slammed weekends.

Well, it's certainly not going to get any better considering the situation at Crystal.

**timeo** · 12-02-2020, 11:29 AM

I made a reservation for me and my two kids to ski on Monday 11/30. Found out the kids still had school on Monday so I canceled one of the kids reservation on 11/23 and the other on 11/29. So I ski alone on 11/30 and it was great, until Ikon sends me the shitty warning email on 12/1 that two parties on my reservation were no-shows, WTF??

I login to my Ikon account and my 11/30 reservation lists ONE person, so why the warning email??? Double WTF.

Call Ikon and am on hold for over 2 hours?!?! They login to my account and see what I am seeing, they also say that on their end they can see I logged in on 11/23 and 11/29 but can't tell what exactly I did. So long story short, Ikon rep passes me to a supervisor who says, "yeah, this system is messed up since it was put together at the last minute" and claims to add some notes to my account that I canceled the two kids and shouldn't have received the warning.

I am wondering if they will ever start banning people who they claim are not following the reservation policies when their system clearly is not reliable. If they tried to ban me for non-existent violations I would flat out sue them in small claims court.

**jayx** · 12-02-2020, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by cstefanic

"Reservations must remain active for the entire day on which your pass is scanned to ski or ride. Cancellation of your reservation after your pass is scanned is a violation of the reservation program."

Cool.

Would have been great if that had been communicated before the reservation system started. Had I known, I would have followed the rules, but given that these rules weren't published, how were we to know?

I guess I'm naïve, but I assumed that passes wouldn't scan in the first place if you didn't have a reservation, and as soon as your pass scanned successfully, it was "checked off" in their system that your reservation was completed. I also assumed that they had been planning for a reservation system privately for months, even if publicly they kept claiming that they wouldn't be using one. Clearly I assumed wrong in both cases and gave Alterra too much credit.

I'm lucky that for the time being I'm doing part-time work where I can occasionally get out on weekdays, because it seems like even if you've booked out as many weekends as you can, once your reservations are completed you're not going to be able to book future weekends until March...and as people start completing their December and January reservations, I'm sure March will get booked out too. But hey, it's great to know that if you can't get a reservation, you have the privilege of paying Crystal a lot of money for an available day ticket. Hope that cheers everyone up.

**Jumper Bones** · 12-02-2020, 01:14 PM

So I guess my question would be, now that weekends have to be capped, does Xtal continue to do the bullshit 'wind hold' practice for all upper-mountain lifts midweek? Or does that not fly anymore?

**Norseman** · 12-02-2020, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Jumper Bones

So I guess my question would be, now that weekends have to be capped, does Xtal continue to do the bullshit 'wind hold' practice for all upper-mountain lifts midweek? Or does that not fly anymore?

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