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Crystal Mountain: Why the 750$ season pass?

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yeahno
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Teafast is very confused over the price for a season pass to Crystal Mountain in Washington. The cheapest unlimited price for me would be 810$ after tax. This price does not even include access to Crystal's on-mountain gondola, this would cost 100$ more to add. A large part of my anger towards this price is due to the fact that I don't think Crystal Mountain wants young (late teen-early 20 college aged) people at their mountain. The cutoff for an adult is 16 (you have to be 15 for the youth pass) and the mountain offers no College Discount whatsoever. Almost every other mountain offers a college pass. The price to ski alta unlimited as a college student is 600$, and that's for ALTA, arguably the best mountain to ski in America. Where I live, Maine, you can get a pass to Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and Loon for about 350$.

So you may ask: "Why not ski at a different mountain?" In Crystal's defense, it is the best mountain I have skied in Washington. Snoqualmie is a butthole, and Stevens Pass is just too far away from where I go to school. (Stevens Pass price for a College Pass is 300$) Even Snoqualmie Gold (Pass to get 5 free days at Crystal) doesn't offer a college discount.


Crystal is a part of Boyne, and I am just wondering why Boyne chose Crystal to be the mountain they gouge people at. SO NS. Thoughts? Concerns? Don't give a fuck?


For those too lazy to read: OP mad at Crystal for 800$ season pass, wants answers
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Aug 27 2014 7:17PM
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Huck_Norris
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TeafastTo Huck Norris: I just want to know why Boyne singles out CRYSTAL as the mountain that they choose to be over the top expensive, and not even offer a slight college discount, its not like Boyne as a whole does offer that sort of discount. The affordable option (Snoqualmie) is simply a butthole. Id love to go to Stevens but it's just too far away from Tacoma.



Because 800 is actually ridiculously low for what you're getting dude! You said so yourself it's the best around by a long shot! I can't believe you get to ski crystal for $800 and you're still complaining. Do. Want.
Aug 28 2014 12:30PM
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tomPietrowski
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RubberSoulsome of you sure are overeager to bag on the OP here

the student pass to whistler is 550 if you buy it now and 650 if you buy it any time after nov 14, i just checked

i imagine this was an honest mistake on your part but come on..


Sure if you re a student but for most people it is still costing them 1300 more a season for the pass. So what we were getting at is even at full price the crystal pass is good value really.
Aug 28 2014 12:38PM
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kim_jong_ill
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TeafastNO EXCUSES


It actually is a reasonable reason... but the price is still absurd
Aug 28 2014 12:56PM
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Lucas
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JacobGehrettOne word: Alpental.


Seriously, Alpentals terrain is so fucking awesome. I wouldn't even think about going to crystal on a pow day when Alpy has Elevator and Nash open.
Aug 28 2014 1:24PM
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Sklar
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LucasSeriously, Alpentals terrain is so fucking awesome. I wouldn't even think about going to crystal on a pow day when Alpy has Elevator and Nash open.


buuut that doesn't happen all the time, chair 2 lines get LONG and it rains way more often at alpy
Aug 28 2014 1:28PM
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Lucas
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Sklarbuuut that doesn't happen all the time, chair 2 lines get LONG and it rains way more often at alpy


Yeah, but when the gates at alpy are closed crystals gates are to. Also, the lines at crystal get just as bad on some lifts.
Aug 28 2014 1:36PM
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J.D.
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TeafastI don't think Crystal Mountain wants young (late teen-early 20 college aged) people at their mountain.

Actually this though, I'd bet.
Aug 28 2014 1:51PM
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Ryguy920
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I'm just sitting here, enjoying my $179 College pass
Aug 28 2014 2:43PM
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yeahno
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J.D.Actually this though, I'd bet.


stem of my anger
Aug 28 2014 2:59PM
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Basil91
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Try paying £28 (about $45) to ski this for an hour and we'll see who's got in worse.



Alternative is drive, get a ferry, drive for 20 hours plus to get to France.
Aug 28 2014 5:32PM
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Drail
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Take a look at seasons pass prices in bc if it'll make you feel better. Whitewater is the cheapest for hills worth spending any time at, but it's just for access to awesome slack country when it really comes down to it and they're asking around $800 full price. Everyone else worth your time in bc is worth $1000 or more.

Alta is a bad comparison due to all the competition in the Wasatch for skiers. Crystal stands alone for the combination of terrain/acreage so they can charge what I look at as normal prices for a seasons pass.

In my mind $800 is normal or even on the cheep side of things for a seasons pass for a proper mountain in the west. Things like the epic pass are the exception to the rule.
Aug 28 2014 5:39PM
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GayWolf420
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Teafaststem of my anger


i get it, but it shouldnt be any surprise by now that resorts rip your shorts off on prices. this argument can be applied to any resort. just be happy you get to ski.
Aug 28 2014 5:42PM
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RudyGarmisch
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JacobGehrettOne word: Alpental.


Visiting Alpental on a weekend is considered standing in line, not skiing, if we're calling the activity by the majority of time spent. One word: Hordes.
Aug 28 2014 7:00PM
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rach
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I grew up skiing Crystal, and I genuinely think that it has some of the best terrain in Washington. You can almost always find good snow there. The low-hanging fruit gets hammered fast, but it stays good in the right places for days after a dump, temps permitting.

I have never paid full price for a Crystal pass, but regardless, I don't think I'll be buying one for this next season. I personally have not been real happy with the management recently, and I have much more of a connection with the community at Stevens these days. Done giving the Boyne family my money.

Where are you going to school? Tacoma?

If you're going to be South of Seattle, I would shoot for Alpental. Especially as a student, the night skiing up there is the greatest.
Aug 28 2014 7:56PM
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rach
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Also, another hilarious Crystal shit talking resource:

[URL]https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/644605/Crystal-Mountain-2011-201[/URL]2

"You must be fucking confused. Crystal mountain can suck my dick. Place is full of dickwads. Only at Crystal Mountain can I ride up the gondola (They fucking made us, fucking stupid thing) and some guy with H2O heli guide skis and a helmet/sunglasses is bitching about how the gondola doesnt have wifi service. If the gondola had wifi service id send that guy a text with a dick picture, stand up in the gondola and yell 'HEY I NOTICED YOU LOVE DICKS, PLEASE SUCK ME OFF'~"

- Scott29~
Aug 28 2014 8:07PM
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yeahno
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DarthVaderVisiting Alpental on a weekend is considered standing in line, not skiing, if we're calling the activity by the majority of time spent. One word: Hordes.


tru. advantage of crystal is that it moves people up the lifts relatively quickly
Aug 28 2014 8:54PM
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ItsFen
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$450 for full access to 4 mountains here in Pa. Plus Mondays at Seven Springs! This kind of makes me happy that I live in the skiing shit hole of the US.
Aug 28 2014 10:20PM
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bieberhole69.
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I rode up on a chair at Crystal with a guy who said he hadn't paid for a pass his entire adult life and just skinned up to mid mountain every weekend and didn't come down to base.


Then they put rfid scanners on every chair last year
Aug 28 2014 10:58PM
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Jooky
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Teafastone word and also one good lift.


One more word: Overcrowded
Aug 29 2014 1:12PM
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Lé.Skiing
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The "local mountain" here is about a 4 hour(depending on traffic) drive away and price for an all inclusive pass is $1100(early bird) and $1375(regular). I think your pricing options could be worse.
Aug 29 2014 4:33PM
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jblaski
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Teafastand that's for ALTA, arguably the best mountain to ski in America.


Of all the things you said, I find this the most ridiculous.
Aug 29 2014 5:44PM
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yeahno
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jblaskiOf all the things you said, I find this the most ridiculous.


subjective?
Aug 31 2014 12:57AM
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cobra_commander
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It's not like there is a shortage of people skiing crystal or clogging up the lifts, road and parking lots.

Crystal exists to make money, not provide YOU a place to ski.

Prices went down after the gondola went in too btw. Used to be something like $1000-$1200.
Admittedly, it was a better mountain than too.

Yawn. Vote for change with your money and spend it someplace else. Don't be surprised when they don't miss your particular ballot though.
Aug 31 2014 10:44PM
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GANGBANG420
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Buying them preseason is a lot cheaper I remember
Sep 1 2014 5:32AM
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mtbakerpow
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fragglemuffinThey need to pay for a new chairlift...

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/742058/Avalanche-destroys-a-ski-lift-at-Crystal-Mountain--Washington-on-March-10--2014-


i was up the day after that avalanche,crazy..there was a few other big slides too not shown on that video.mt baker season pass isn't cheap either,but lots of terrain and even more snow...
Dec 8 2014 2:26AM
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p-fo
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As others have said, they really don't give a shit about our demographic at all there. Most of us live in the Seattle or further north, which makes Stevens, Snocompton and Baker way better options anyway. They go after the rich Bellevue dads who have the money and inclination to drive down there, plus the casual skiers who live south of Seattle. I grew up in Olympia and there really aren't many skiers of the NS kind between Seattle and Portland. It's basically the Deer Valley of WA.
Boyne seems to see it as their Whistler, but it's never gonna happen for one main reason: shit for infrastructure. It's at least an hour and a half from the nearest airport, and most of that is on two lane highways in the foothills or mountains. It's at the head of a pretty narrow valley, leaving not that much space for hotels and other shit (like a town, a la Whistler) in the base area. All the infrastructure, etc that would need to be built to make it a major destination resort would be built for that reason and no other. They wouldn't do it for MRNP. Since building it requires a hefty amount of public funding, it's never going to happen.
Their goal of a destination resort has caused the vibe there to turn shitty and pretentious. I only go there now in May when passes are $25 and no one else between Whistler and Hood is open. As good as the terrain is, it's not a place meant for skiers like me.
Dec 8 2014 4:24AM
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DayMan
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I didn't really read the thread, but I find it ridiculous that the season pass at Steamboat is 1300 when you can get the Epic pass for about half that, and you literally get more than ten times the terrain with the Epic pass.
Dec 8 2014 9:43AM
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Krotchs_Brother
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Mount St Louis Moonstone charges $775 in season, for a 4 month season.. It could definitely be worse.
Dec 8 2014 9:50AM
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cobra_commander
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Grilled.SteezeMount St Louis Moonstone charges $775 in season, for a 4 month season.. It could definitely be worse.


we have yet to see if Crystal Mt Washington will have a four month season. So far they have yet to break the 1 week mark.
Dec 8 2014 10:54AM
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KravtZ
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Suck it up if you want to ski there. $750 isn't really that bad for a season pass. Its skiing...a rich white mans sport. Get used to it. Prices will always be high. Where I ski thankfully they do a $300 all year pass for anyone under 29 but that being said if you want a health club membership or any of the other perks of a normal season pass or your just older than 29 they start at $1200 WITH blackout dates.
Dec 8 2014 4:57PM
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will_powder
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jason...whistler is $1669 for the early bird, $2000 full price. you're doing fine with $750 bud.


I pay $550 hehehe
Dec 8 2014 5:18PM
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rballs_
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$819 for students at Lake Louise.
Dec 8 2014 7:12PM
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yeahno
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Good thing I didn't buy a Crystal Pass.
Jan 29 2015 1:41AM
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