Ski resort restrictions 2020/21

How could anyone know this right now. Not even the ski mtns know this.

chubby3Due to the coronavirus some resorts (like Australia) are limiting numbers on the mountain and making people prebook there days in advance. I know its a long way off but does anyone have any information on whether this will be the case for the upcoming 20/21 American season?

It's very, very likely this will be what happens. It will be based on a reservation system or more likely on some sort of modified lottery. Reservations will probably limited to 2/day, so if you are able to reserve a spot it will be either for just you, or you and one friend. Total people per day will obviously be limited, social distancing in lift lines and one person per chair unless in a party of 2, masks, and no ski lodge services.

skeirmanIt's very, very likely this will be what happens. It will be based on a reservation system or more likely on some sort of modified lottery. Reservations will probably limited to 2/day, so if you are able to reserve a spot it will be either for just you, or you and one friend. Total people per day will obviously be limited, social distancing in lift lines and one person per chair unless in a party of 2, masks, and no ski lodge services.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Just tossing up what season pass to buy. But if you have to select what days to ski in advance and can't come and go when the conditions are good it kinda defeats the purpose.

chubby3Yeah that's what I was thinking. Just tossing up what season pass to buy. But if you have to select what days to ski in advance and can't come and go when the conditions are good it kinda defeats the purpose.

Yep, its totally fucked.

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chubby3Due to the coronavirus some resorts (like Australia) are limiting numbers on the mountain and making people prebook there days in advance. I know its a long way off but does anyone have any information on whether this will be the case for the upcoming 20/21 American season?

It’s still too soon to tell, and any parameters set will likely increase or decrease by October/November depending the movement of the virus and our ability to fight it medically and financially.
The ? we should be asking is what can we do to ensure our seasons happen? Can we support our resorts ahead of time in anyway to improve things, and how de we keep it open while we’re there. I know we have most of the answers but more are welcome.

While booking in advance, and not being able to go during a “pow alert “ if you aren’t reserved already is a bummer, with a season pass are you not technically “reserved, booked , whatever” already? Will Ikon/epic and other multi resort pass holders have to select a home mountain for unlimited booking and struggle to get into 1 or 2 other places... that might be a good idea, bummer for me, but a worthy sacarifice

I already wear a mask and gloves at the resort, whether lodges are open or not does not matter to me. My biggest risk of getting or spreading will be holding my pass for liftie and when I remove my gloves to smoke a blunt I’ll have to have an order of operations sanitation system , my nose doesn’t run so I never wipe no issues there.


im for voting to fine people And businesses who don’t wear masks , or let their nose hang out and things along this line the govt and so many people have given so much to negate this, I think it’s time the ignorant give back

and the vail ceo has made some statements , nothing concrete very watery but can be found online, I heard it from a ski essentials top 5 Friday’s on you tube

SavageBiffIt’s still too soon to tell, and any parameters set will likely increase or decrease by October/November depending the movement of the virus and our ability to fight it medically and financially.
The ? we should be asking is what can we do to ensure our seasons happen? Can we support our resorts ahead of time in anyway to improve things, and how de we keep it open while we’re there. I know we have most of the answers but more are welcome.

While booking in advance, and not being able to go during a “pow alert “ if you aren’t reserved already is a bummer, with a season pass are you not technically “reserved, booked , whatever” already? Will Ikon/epic and other multi resort pass holders have to select a home mountain for unlimited booking and struggle to get into 1 or 2 other places... that might be a good idea, bummer for me, but a worthy sacarifice

I already wear a mask and gloves at the resort, whether lodges are open or not does not matter to me. My biggest risk of getting or spreading will be holding my pass for liftie and when I remove my gloves to smoke a blunt I’ll have to have an order of operations sanitation system , my nose doesn’t run so I never wipe no issues there.


im for voting to fine people And businesses who don’t wear masks , or let their nose hang out and things along this line the govt and so many people have given so much to negate this, I think it’s time the ignorant give back

and the vail ceo has made some statements , nothing concrete very watery but can be found online, I heard it from a ski essentials top 5 Friday’s on you tube

Thanks for the info. I'll check out the ski essentials channel.

Whats the coranavirus? Feel like I've missed something.

Rob Katz was like "Um we're gonna um maybe something skiing hopefully great maybe wow yeah something hopefully maybe yeah!" On the topic. I think that shows that nobody knows what the fuck is going on.

The way everything has kind of opened back up already I don't see why it wouldn't be business as usual at the mtns. People are already traveling, restaurants and everything else are open a lot of places.

I feel like they'd even be able to run now with all the normal restrictions in place and be fine.

I hope capacity isn't an issue. This is what's fucking southern hem mtns right now. No season passes only day tickets.

I say that we the fine people of newschoolers write a letter to the corona virus and politely ask it to fuck off. Anyone in?

Saw that Loon in NH changed their low price pass deadline the other day to a hard pass deadline, no more passes sold after that date, without advertising it that way. Maybe I misunderstood it wasn’t paying much attention cause I don’t live there anymore but saw a few stories on Instagram where people were really pissed. Who knows if other mountains will do the same, definitely buying my Brighton pass before the deadline as they are also Boyne operated and might pull the same shit.

I have not bought a pass yet and don’t plan to until there is some better understanding. I don’t think Vail and Alterra will have those deadlines in fall like in years past. They need money. They need pass sales. So I’ll just wait. And if shit gets worse and I don’t buy a pass that is fine too.

Ya that’s what I was referring to. Thought it went right along with the posts above staying it’s just too soon to tell.

I feel the same about the likelihood of “business as usual” but here we are only a few weeks into openings and shits on the rise, not drastically, but rising... and the better we do now, the better our ski season will fair in the end

A lot of resorts have already sold season passes here in the USA, ikon , and some local resort passes through ikon. I for instance have an IKon for myself and a snowshoe ridic pass for my wife and kids

theabortionatorRob Katz was like "Um we're gonna um maybe something skiing hopefully great maybe wow yeah something hopefully maybe yeah!" On the topic. I think that shows that nobody knows what the fuck is going on.

The way everything has kind of opened back up already I don't see why it wouldn't be business as usual at the mtns. People are already traveling, restaurants and everything else are open a lot of places.

I feel like they'd even be able to run now with all the normal restrictions in place and be fine.

I hope capacity isn't an issue. This is what's fucking southern hem mtns right now. No season passes only day tickets.

evan.schuI say that we the fine people of newschoolers write a letter to the corona virus and politely ask it to fuck off. Anyone in?

I’ll sign the letter, where do we send it? To China? Or to trump?

SavageBiffI’ll sign the letter, where do we send it? To China? Or to trump?

Well neither of those options can read English so straight to Coronas mailbox

SavageBiffIt’s still too soon to tell, and any parameters set will likely increase or decrease by October/November depending the movement of the virus and our ability to fight it medically and financially.
The ? we should be asking is what can we do to ensure our seasons happen? Can we support our resorts ahead of time in anyway to improve things, and how de we keep it open while we’re there. I know we have most of the answers but more are welcome.

While booking in advance, and not being able to go during a “pow alert “ if you aren’t reserved already is a bummer, with a season pass are you not technically “reserved, booked , whatever” already? Will Ikon/epic and other multi resort pass holders have to select a home mountain for unlimited booking and struggle to get into 1 or 2 other places... that might be a good idea, bummer for me, but a worthy sacarifice

I already wear a mask and gloves at the resort, whether lodges are open or not does not matter to me. My biggest risk of getting or spreading will be holding my pass for liftie and when I remove my gloves to smoke a blunt I’ll have to have an order of operations sanitation system , my nose doesn’t run so I never wipe no issues there.


im for voting to fine people And businesses who don’t wear masks , or let their nose hang out and things along this line the govt and so many people have given so much to negate this, I think it’s time the ignorant give back

and the vail ceo has made some statements , nothing concrete very watery but can be found online, I heard it from a ski essentials top 5 Friday’s on you tube

Thanks for sharing

SavageBiffIt’s still too soon to tell, and any parameters set will likely increase or decrease by October/November depending the movement of the virus and our ability to fight it medically and financially.
The ? we should be asking is what can we do to ensure our seasons happen? Can we support our resorts ahead of time in anyway to improve things, and how de we keep it open while we’re there. I know we have most of the answers but more are welcome.

While booking in advance, and not being able to go during a “pow alert “ if you aren’t reserved already is a bummer, with a season pass are you not technically “reserved, booked , whatever” already? Will Ikon/epic and other multi resort pass holders have to select a home mountain for unlimited booking and struggle to get into 1 or 2 other places... that might be a good idea, bummer for me, but a worthy sacarifice

I already wear a mask and gloves at the resort, whether lodges are open or not does not matter to me. My biggest risk of getting or spreading will be holding my pass for liftie and when I remove my gloves to smoke a blunt I’ll have to have an order of operations sanitation system , my nose doesn’t run so I never wipe no issues there.


im for voting to fine people And businesses who don’t wear masks , or let their nose hang out and things along this line the govt and so many people have given so much to negate this, I think it’s time the ignorant give back

and the vail ceo has made some statements , nothing concrete very watery but can be found online, I heard it from a ski essentials top 5 Friday’s on you tube

Good post. I can totally see some places like Deer Valley and similar resorts like that go towards the reservation route. Think like tee times at a golf course where they have time slots to allow groups to go out to help with pacing, except its to help with group distancing on the mountain. We still dont really know honestly here. Reservation times like that, especially if its at Epic resorts, does concern me though. Itll put a ton of people in a weird spot, especially ski teams and ski schools, adaptive sport programs, etc.....Imagine having to try and get a huge group a timeslot during a peak week and theyre all full.

theabortionatorRob Katz was like "Um we're gonna um maybe something skiing hopefully great maybe wow yeah something hopefully maybe yeah!" On the topic. I think that shows that nobody knows what the fuck is going on.

The way everything has kind of opened back up already I don't see why it wouldn't be business as usual at the mtns. People are already traveling, restaurants and everything else are open a lot of places.

I feel like they'd even be able to run now with all the normal restrictions in place and be fine.

I hope capacity isn't an issue. This is what's fucking southern hem mtns right now. No season passes only day tickets.

Part of the issue imo is the staffing of these huge resorts....Vail has fucked up by getting so large, having so many pieces of property, that theyre just unable to properly staff them to begin with, forget a pandemic.....and if trump ends up banning visa workers from coming in, thats like half their workforce right there. Im sure theyll get people to run the lifts and be patrollers, on mtn staff, etc, but if its anything like it is in some counties with resorts, they have workforces cut in half due to health dept. codes for the virus and its gonna be pretty tough sledding for resort workers if they dont bump pay up at least.


I saw the same article in our local paper (The Park Record) and the main concern right now is that terrain probably wont be opened right away, maybe not at all, if they cant get lifts properlly staffed or enough people to make snow, but honestly people might be desperate for work with the economy being shit so who fuckin knows. id still expect to ski right now though. If golf courses are open, so can ski resorts.

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Wouldn’t wanna be the guy running the logistics and assigning time slots that’s for sure would be tough with mostly dissatisfied consumers

Cant comment on vail, I haven’t been to one of their resorts. It seems as if Alterra does a good job staffing , always seems to be plenty of, if not not too many employees, or so it seems from an outsiders perspective, my local mountain seems to have a 50/50 mix of local and migrant workers so we’ll see how that goes, I def think there will be people to fill unfilled slots, but quality and efficiency is likely to drop without returning experienced workers.

For me as a landscaper who is a field manager for a company and run my own small company and know many people in the field, we for instance had 4 migrant workers and had no problem filling the spots, problem is it’s hard to find people who work well, but our colleagues are also having no problems filling spots.


I also read the ski industry lost 2 billion! To me that was staggering, had they said 100 million id have been like damn, but anyway, I’m sure everyone is in a hurry to open, and remain open from their summer to winter transition, even if it’s minimal I imagine everyone is gonna have “something” open on time and grow from there, god I hope so

DeebieSkeebiesGood post. I can totally see some places like Deer Valley and similar resorts like that go towards the reservation route. Think like tee times at a golf course where they have time slots to allow groups to go out to help with pacing, except its to help with group distancing on the mountain. We still dont really know honestly here. Reservation times like that, especially if its at Epic resorts, does concern me though. Itll put a ton of people in a weird spot, especially ski teams and ski schools, adaptive sport programs, etc.....Imagine having to try and get a huge group a timeslot during a peak week and theyre all full.





Part of the issue imo is the staffing of these huge resorts....Vail has fucked up by getting so large, having so many pieces of property, that theyre just unable to properly staff them to begin with, forget a pandemic.....and if trump ends up banning visa workers from coming in, thats like half their workforce right there. Im sure theyll get people to run the lifts and be patrollers, on mtn staff, etc, but if its anything like it is in some counties with resorts, they have workforces cut in half due to health dept. codes for the virus and its gonna be pretty tough sledding for resort workers if they dont bump pay up at least.


I saw the same article in our local paper (The Park Record) and the main concern right now is that terrain probably wont be opened right away, maybe not at all, if they cant get lifts properlly staffed or enough people to make snow, but honestly people might be desperate for work with the economy being shit so who fuckin knows. id still expect to ski right now though. If golf courses are open, so can ski resorts.

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I'm not a mathlete, but I had to think for a few seconds if the ski industry had 2 billion hahaha

SavageBiffI also read the ski industry lost 2 billion!

Same I was like whoa there’s that much in skiing. I assume they tally resteraunt, real estate , hotel and lodging, events on top of the gear sales and rentals and ticket sales to get there

Twinjibber77I'm not a mathlete, but I had to think for a few seconds if the ski industry had 2 billion hahaha

.squirrely.Saw that Loon in NH changed their low price pass deadline the other day to a hard pass deadline, no more passes sold after that date, without advertising it that way. Maybe I misunderstood it wasn’t paying much attention cause I don’t live there anymore but saw a few stories on Instagram where people were really pissed. Who knows if other mountains will do the same, definitely buying my Brighton pass before the deadline as they are also Boyne operated and might pull the same shit.

I used to ski loon and Boyne blows. Screw them

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Haha no kidding. Not sure what to change it to yet