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Mt. Bachelor Fast Pass Petition

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Vitiligo
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Someone started a petition for the Mt. Bachelor Fast Pass to be taken away. Sign it. This is horrible for the sport of skiing, as well as the locals who already spend $1,000 on a pass and wait in ridiculous lines.

If you haven't heard, this is a "Fast Pass" that anyone can pay $50 to skip the lines all day. Sounds more like an amusement park amenity than something that should be at a ski resort to me.

https://www.change.org/p/force-mt-bachelor-and-pwdr-corp-to-cease-and-desist-fast-passes?redirect=false


What are your thoughts?

Link to article about it


Link to US Senator Ron Wyden message to POWDR Corp.
Oct 20 2021 10:55AM
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Grantito
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ill sign it but petitions usually dont do shit
Oct 20 2021 10:56AM
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trevorschu
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They already responded saying if you don't like it, get a refund on your season pass
Oct 20 2021 11:29AM
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Vitiligo
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trevorschuThey already responded saying if you don't like it, get a refund on your season pass


You don’t think if 50,000 people signed it that might make corporate look at changing it?


Or will it take people packing the line on busy weekends to get the tourists mad enough to complain about wasting their money on the line?
Oct 20 2021 1:14PM
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trevorschu
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VitiligoYou don’t think if 50,000 people signed it that might make corporate look at changing it?


Or will it take people packing the line on busy weekends to get the tourists mad enough to complain about wasting their money on the line?


Signing a petition and actually cancelling your season pass are two very different things
Oct 20 2021 2:10PM
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Session
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VitiligoYou don’t think if 50,000 people signed it that might make corporate look at changing it?


Or will it take people packing the line on busy weekends to get the tourists mad enough to complain about wasting their money on the line?


trevorschuSigning a petition and actually cancelling your season pass are two very different things


Yep, very few people will put their money where their mouth is.
Oct 20 2021 2:12PM
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mrk127
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How many damm Fast Pass threads are we gonna have?

But yea...
Oct 20 2021 3:08PM
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CatdickBojangles
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Protest with your wallet, refund your pass.
Oct 20 2021 3:29PM
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mrk127
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CatdickBojanglesProtest with your wallet, refund your pass.

Bruh I wish, I’m a sucker for bachy skiing tho
Oct 20 2021 5:44PM
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BrandoComando
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I know where I'm going next time I'm in Bend

https://skihoodoo.com/
Oct 20 2021 5:50PM
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broto
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VitiligoYou don’t think if 50,000 people signed it that might make corporate look at changing it?


Or will it take people packing the line on busy weekends to get the tourists mad enough to complain about wasting their money on the line?


It can't hurt to sign a petition, but you have too much good faith in a corporation. Corporations exist to make money, not to preserve the sanctity of skiing. If 50,000 people sign a petition but continue to spend money at bachelor, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Powdr is betting that the money earned from fast passes will far exceed the money lost from refunded passes, and I'm sure they've already done the math. Until that equation shifts in the other direction, nothing will change.

It sucks but that's what it is
Oct 20 2021 8:26PM
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Vitiligo
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brotoIt can't hurt to sign a petition, but you have too much good faith in a corporation. Corporations exist to make money, not to preserve the sanctity of skiing. If 50,000 people sign a petition but continue to spend money at bachelor, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Powdr is betting that the money earned from fast passes will far exceed the money lost from refunded passes, and I'm sure they've already done the math. Until that equation shifts in the other direction, nothing will change.

It sucks but that's what it is


Yeah, it is what it is but it's worth a shot! If enough people get upset and refund then they'd get rid of it. I'm going to see what happens and if they don't cancel it right before the season then I'll consider refunding the pass. Just sucks because I love this mountain and how close it is to my house.

Time will tell!
Oct 20 2021 9:15PM
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TRVP_ANGEL
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VitiligoYou don’t think if 50,000 people signed it that might make corporate look at changing it?


Or will it take people packing the line on busy weekends to get the tourists mad enough to complain about wasting their money on the line?


you and 49,999 others don't have leverage. Welcome to the real world.
Oct 20 2021 9:23PM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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However we can heckle the absolute shit out of the people who use the fast pass line.
Oct 20 2021 9:36PM
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abar.
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BrandoComandoI know where I'm going next time I'm in Bend

https://skihoodoo.com/


I do love some laps at the dirty doo but it's kinda become hilarious how many facebook karens post "I'm taking my business to hoodoo" every time bachy does literally anything
Oct 21 2021 8:10PM
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mrk127
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abar.I do love some laps at the dirty doo but it's kinda become hilarious how many facebook karens post "I'm taking my business to hoodoo" every time bachy does literally anything

RIP hoodoo being empty if bachelor keeps on the path of constantly fucking up like they have the past few years. Seems like it’s actually getting significantly busier at the doo. Good for the hoodoo owners tho
Oct 21 2021 8:35PM
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Logi
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Mt. Bachelor: putting the core in corporate
Oct 21 2021 10:27PM
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mrk127
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LogiMt. Bachelor: putting the core in corporate


more like putting the coren't in corporate
Oct 21 2021 10:48PM
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armchair_skier
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trevorschuThey already responded saying if you don't like it, get a refund on your season pass


based
Oct 21 2021 11:23PM
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BrandoComando
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abar.I do love some laps at the dirty doo but it's kinda become hilarious how many facebook karens post "I'm taking my business to hoodoo" every time bachy does literally anything


Damn it's official. I'm a Facebook Karen...
Oct 22 2021 10:05AM
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