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Epic Pass Holders - Post-covid season thoughts (not a hate rant)

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blazeonyia
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Now that the season is wrapping up how did it go for epic pass holders? The reservation system sounded bad put perhaps it got better? What do you think about plans for next season with no res system and cheaper passes?

Just curious. Due to mostly my schedule this was the first season since 2002 that I did not get an epic pass. Curious how it went for NSers who did.
Apr 17 2021 1:05PM
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Notaskibum
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Had no issues getting reservations all season, it will be gone next year. Some people have been bitching should the parks recently but PC was as good as ever.
Apr 17 2021 1:28PM
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CoolChillGuy420
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PC seemed like a shitshow every single day up until close. Closing week was awesome with how quiet it was though.
Apr 17 2021 2:16PM
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MaimHelp
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They started cutting parks at my home mtn and put fences up everywhere and a lift broke and they never fixed it which led to very unorthodox navigation and a lot of hiking and skating to hit the parks.


reservations were shitty at first and we had to get them a week in advance. Still managed a trip out west which went well. Not going back to epic but it wasn’t too bad just annoying
Apr 17 2021 2:32PM
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BrandoComando
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Reservation system was fine. Kinda annoying, but I’d take reservations over no skiing at all. Since Northstar and heavenly booked up on the holidays, it drove more people to kirkwood and it was more crowded than most years.

For unrelated reasons I’m doing ikon next season
Apr 17 2021 5:32PM
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theabortionator
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NotaskibumHad no issues getting reservations all season, it will be gone next year. Some people have been bitching should the parks recently but PC was as good as ever.


Northstar, Park City, Mount Snow and maybe a couple of other are really the only ones hanging on. Vail took beaver creeks park to non existent, nerfed the fuck out of a growing and legit park program woth big boulder.

Vail owns dozens of resorts now. Not a grwat ratio of sick or at least improving parks, to dying or severely nerfed parks.

Also Vail hates contests and fun too. Bobby kats isnt down with the parks.
Apr 17 2021 5:59PM
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ToddlerBodyBag
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The reservations only kept me from skiing one day but with ikon it would have been zero days so lmao fuck Vail. North Star park was great this year but if I was stuck with Heavenly I would riot.
Apr 17 2021 6:10PM
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ski_salmon69
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Our big park had like 4 rails for the first few weeks, then nothing until February (snow cover might’ve been part of it too but they could’ve at least let them set up some rails, idk). But park crew did an amazing job this year. Features were quality and were switched up like every week. But staffing was a huge issue for my mountain. They often didn’t have enough people to run the lifts and unfortunately that sometimes meant shutting down the park lift. Reservations weren’t a huge problem but I always had like 10 days at a time reserved. Way more crowded this year. Also they seemed to close shit down too early
Apr 17 2021 8:18PM
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ColoradoDogfart
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a thread being posted about epic and not a 15 paragraph rant????? no way, this cant be true
Apr 17 2021 8:33PM
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Awelterego
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Reservation system was totally fine. Never had an issue. Northstar park was legit, Keystone was decent. Heavenly and Beaver Creek parks got dick kicked.
Apr 18 2021 12:19AM
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blazeonyia
Posts: 283 - Karma: 944
Thank you all for the feedback! Rob Katz has a smug punchable face but I can't deny all the great times I have had at these places. Would love to get back to it but wanted to see how you all were doing. Such a great community here - thank you for answering my questions.
Apr 18 2021 9:48PM
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lurking
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The one thing that will stick with me from this season is how crowded it was. From opening day until about a week before closing it didn't matter when I went, it could be a cold Tuesday or a sunny Saturday, and the lots were full & lines were long.
Apr 19 2021 10:39AM
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guelah_papyrus
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As someone who had Ikon/Epic I would say the biggest thing is that Epic resorts (Here in Colorado) were way more crowded 99% of the time. Generally if people are coming into town to ski they are going to the Epic resorts. Going to do Ikon again next season and spend money to ski the big powder days at Wolf Creek.
Apr 19 2021 11:10AM
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eheath
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Reservation system was an afterthought by January, it was super easy to get days in advance.

Overall it was busy, lift lines were some of the worst I've ever seen, but it was also limit capacity on lifts, indoors, etc. Parking was bad, but its been bad at PC for years.

I think with adaption of different lanes in the maze (4-6, 3, 2, 1) will make it easier to fill lifts next year and could potentially cut lift line times in half from this year. I think next winter will be a good measure of how busy the resorts will actually be, this year is an anomaly (hopefully).
Apr 19 2021 1:36PM
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BrandoComando
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eheathReservation system was an afterthought by January, it was super easy to get days in advance.

Overall it was busy, lift lines were some of the worst I've ever seen, but it was also limit capacity on lifts, indoors, etc. Parking was bad, but its been bad at PC for years.

I think with adaption of different lanes in the maze (4-6, 3, 2, 1) will make it easier to fill lifts next year and could potentially cut lift line times in half from this year. I think next winter will be a good measure of how busy the resorts will actually be, this year is an anomaly (hopefully).


The different lanes in the maze was a very cool strategy that I saw at PC. I had no idea that was new for this year. I'd never seen that kind of thing in Tahoe. I'd be happy to see that lane management strategy going forward at busier resorts
Apr 19 2021 2:21PM
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eheath
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BrandoComandoThe different lanes in the maze was a very cool strategy that I saw at PC. I had no idea that was new for this year. I'd never seen that kind of thing in Tahoe. I'd be happy to see that lane management strategy going forward at busier resorts


Yeah it'll work really well when they can force people to ride together, itll make it easier for ppl to figure it out themselves too. Often at the most busy lifts they have employees group ppl up but not at every lift, I could see vail implementing it at all of their resorts.
Apr 19 2021 2:25PM
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