Epic Pass or IKON Pass?

TreyDudskiHonestly I would wait to see what each pass will offer... I've heard rumors of some resorts being limited or being completely taken off the ikon/epic pass, but it's only rumors.

Obama_careYou failing us by buying one of them that should get you a lifetime newschoolers ban

Municipal007You always have a choice

Obama_careYou failing us by buying one of them that should get you a lifetime newschoolers ban

eheathYou're just acting ignorant because? vail and alterra both control a shit ton of resorts, many where its the only resort for miles...

Municipal007??? you always have a choice = you don’t have to ski

eheathSo you're saying someone shouldn't ski over buying an epic pass or ikon pass to their local resort? Spot on rhetoric for a ski website.

eheathSo you're saying someone shouldn't ski over buying an epic pass or ikon pass to their local resort? Spot on rhetoric for a ski website.

RIP_leos_shackOnly place I would say epic beats ikon would be BC with Whistler. Everywhere else ikon has better mountains. Don't know about the east coast, I'm sure someone will chime in.

EvanMeyerIkon pass is the best way to be unanimously hated by every employee at the resort. Im sure the same goes for having an epic pass at vail resorts.

SavageBiffDid not experience this at copper, key, a basin, dv, mammoth, or any of the east coast ikon resorts in the past 4 years...
why would the employees have issues with an ikon holder? Hell some of us there tippin, tossing Js or at least saying thank you, hell most lefties compliment my shit as my Ikon’s dangling there. The only people I’ve ever heard complain are on the ski sites, or skiers complaining in line

EvanMeyerIkon pass is the best way to be unanimously hated by every employee at the resort. Im sure the same goes for having an epic pass at vail resorts.

EvanMeyerIkon pass is the best way to be unanimously hated by every employee at the resort. Im sure the same goes for having an epic pass at vail resorts.

SavageBiffDid not experience this at copper, key, a basin, dv, mammoth, or any of the east coast ikon resorts in the past 4 years...
why would the employees have issues with an ikon holder? Hell some of us there tippin, tossing Js or at least saying thank you, hell most lefties compliment my shit as my Ikon’s dangling there. The only people I’ve ever heard complain are on the ski sites, or skiers complaining in line

NotaskibumThis is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's literally the only way to ski at all of the vail resorts.

EvanMeyerWell we can’t directly tell tourists to fuck off but everyone from my supervisors, to f&b employees, hell even lift maintenance talks shit on ikon holders.

JpurdThis is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Get over yourselves.

EvanMeyerThe truth hurts sometimes it’s ok young Padawan

EvanMeyerThe truth hurts sometimes it’s ok young Padawan

DeebieSkeebiesor you're just a salty resort worker thats tired of getting your shit pushed in by karens and watching people ski all day everyday while you work.

EvanMeyerThe truth hurts sometimes it’s ok young Padawan

jakeordieJH did the math a couple seasons back, 5 out of 6 ikon pass holders would still be there with some other lift ticket.

eheathI dont think its unfair to say the IKON passes have increased the number of skiers, it makes skiing more accessible. Everyone wants skiing to be cheaper and more accessible until it affects them personally...

BigPurpleSkiSuitThere are 2 things that can be done. I think it should be with the Ikon pass that you reserve the days you want to be there early season. This will help make it so that their is less of a zoo effect on any pow day with out of staters flying in and renting a car for the weekend.

eheathWe all know that isn't going to happen, only thing thats gonna stop the IKON pass is the resorts themselves.

Municipal007If u buy an ikon and stay out of SLC and mammoth you probably aren’t hurting anyone

JpurdGuessing you work at Bachelor? I don't even know if Seven Springs is on the pass.

Even so, my Ikon pass gets 7 days their max. Are Ikon pass holders worse people? I'm still not sure what you're getting at. Are they coming from the cities and ruining your serene and cathartic experience of being in the mountains, away from it all?

I would also imagine that the money spent by those Ikon pass holders, you don't need right? Again, sorry that you don't like the way the industry is trending but this isn't 2000 where you can buy a season pass for $250 and a day ticket for $35.

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EvanMeyerhonestly yeah most of the out of state ikon pass holders that flocked here the entire month of February were pretty shitty people. Constantly bitching at staff over things we have no control over like crowds, why a lift isn’t running on a storm day, parking and any number of other things. Also I wouldn’t call bend a cathartic experience in the mountains away from it all, if I wanted that I’d just go buy a sled and move as far north in Montana as possible.

eheathYou can't really use the 20/21 season to compare or complain, it was a much different year this year. Im not defending these people, but ppl dont just move to mountain towns/citys normally, im guessing most are gonna move back to wherever they came from.

eheathYou can't really use the 20/21 season to compare or complain, it was a much different year this year. Im not defending these people, but ppl dont just move to mountain towns/citys normally, im guessing most are gonna move back to wherever they came from.

BigPurpleSkiSuitI'm sure the people who've payed 3000 dollars for upscale apartments in concrete jungles who just had a great time in a mountain town, saved tons of money, and can still work remotely are gonna move back. Yeah hahaha totally!!!

**This post was edited on Mar 10th 2021 at 1:42:19pm

eheathI think you're underestimating the amount of money these kinda people have, most people won't be working at home next winter and these people will move home now that they can go to the movies and hit the club or whatever, ppl left cali because literally everything was shut down, nearby utah everything is open... I think we all need to take a breath and just wait for next year, I think it will be less busy but maybe im wrong.

NotaskibumAll of you are wrong about this by the way. They are actually fewer skiers at the resorts this year than last. Across vail resorts they are down 17% source: https://snowbrains.com/vail-resorts-skier-visits-down/

The only reason it feels more busy is because the lifts are at like 50% capacity because they aren't packing everyone in.

eheaththat article is almost 3 months old brother, lots of skiing has happened since then, its been insanely busy. thats also for a 3 day period comparing directly to the same period last year, dec/january was a historically dry period in the west this year, thats why the numbers were down.

NotaskibumVail has earnings again tomorrow, let's see what they say for the last three months.

EvanMeyerWell we can’t directly tell tourists to fuck off but everyone from my supervisors, to f&b employees, hell even lift maintenance talks shit on ikon holders.

eheathI dont think its unfair to say the IKON passes have increased the number of skiers, it makes skiing more accessible. Everyone wants skiing to be cheaper and more accessible until it affects them personally...

EvanMeyerIm aware things were very different this year and it was way more of a shit show at pretty much every resort. Lots of people just deciding they would pick up skiing this year since there was nothing else for them to do. Same the folks who decide to get 6 month rentals in mountain towns will inevitably leave when they stop working from home and kids have to be back in school full time. I understand the minority of NSers that buy an ikon or epic pass are most likely good people but need to take into account it’s a minuscule percentage compared to the average person that’s buying one.

SavageBiffSo in other words, since there’s a few bad apples they are all rotten and should be hated...