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Pay for POW

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primalskis
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The last couple years I have been worried the ski industry is moving towards a pay for POW model. What do I mean "pay for POW"? I mean you pay extra you get on the mountain early or get special access.

Low and behold my home mountain , Big Sky, is offering their unguided first tracks program this year. Pay extra and you get to load an hour early. It is only one chair lift (for now?) but I fear this is just the beginning.

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Dec 4 2020 8:55AM
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primalskis
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c-friesYoo I taught skiing at Big Sky last year and worked in the ski school office. It was hilarious seeing these rich jerry tourists showing up at 7am - "hey so we're here for the first tracks" - and then they just get on Ramcharger and literally do 3 blue cruiser runs that have a half an inch of "pow" on top of them.

And before and after they were always so fired up lol "My god Winston this is just going to be EPIC" and then "Theodore that was the best skiing of my life!"

Oh well. They're stoked and they're rarely tracking out any real goods anyways.


**This post was edited on Dec 5th 2020 at 9:18:16pm

**This post was edited on Dec 5th 2020 at 10:32:49pm
Dec 5 2020 8:52PM
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