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e.willWeekend lines are perpetually 30 mins on Central Express, especially when lessons are cranking. (core 6 weeks of the winter).
That being said, the park has been super, SUPER fun the last two, three seasons. It's worth it. Plus, during the night-skiing season, you can ski well into the night. We'll even ski Alp all day, get dinner or something, then go blast some night laps.
Ya gotta get up there early, though. I think with Crystal pass restructure and people needing to go to Snoq to justify their Ikon purchase (basically, a lot of people like you) the Snoq is going to get INUNDATED and totally fucked every weekend. I do think you'll start to see 40 minute backups on the alpental access road in the morning, and things getting dicey on the highway.
This is not a knock on you, but more a knock on Crystal, and a sad byproduct of pass reciprocity at the summit.
e.willWeekend lines are perpetually 30 mins on Central Express, especially when lessons are cranking. (core 6 weeks of the winter).
That being said, the park has been super, SUPER fun the last two, three seasons. It's worth it. Plus, during the night-skiing season, you can ski well into the night. We'll even ski Alp all day, get dinner or something, then go blast some night laps.
Ya gotta get up there early, though. I think with Crystal pass restructure and people needing to go to Snoq to justify their Ikon purchase (basically, a lot of people like you) the Snoq is going to get INUNDATED and totally fucked every weekend. I do think you'll start to see 40 minute backups on the alpental access road in the morning, and things getting dicey on the highway.
This is not a knock on you, but more a knock on Crystal, and a sad byproduct of pass reciprocity at the summit.
theabortionatorMeh, idk how you can knock Crystal for getting off the unlimited. They should have done it a year earlier. Knock them for the pass price hike sure but getting off Ikon was smart straight up.
Also for weekday people 645 wasnt cheap but not too bad, and 7 days a week after march 15th which is my favorite time of the season. 1500 for a season pass is too much though. I like limiting people but not like that.
e.willTBH, I always want to blame Crystal, so sure, bias acknowledged, but hear me out:
Crystal made some moves this year that churned a lot of skiers from being Crystal Skiers into Ikon Skiers. The resort made decisions to invest in attracting a destination-minded consumer rather than improving existing value for their core consumer.
this has shifted the ikon reciprocity arrangement at summit from being a value-add to the core pillar of the value proposition for Washington area skiers. The brunt of absorbing this falls to Snoqualmie. Sure, Snoq limits their pass sales, but the ikon redemption goes from unexpected problem to guaranteed situation.
And in order to address, Summit has to be the one that fixes these things. Seems kinda BS. I do wish they would turn off the reciprocity arrangement, or have a much harder cap on ikon reservation day tickets. But the situation we're facing, in my opinion, is based entirely off of Crystal's decision making.
It's kind of like someone rear-ending you on the highway and saying, "nah it's chill my cousin will take care of this." But that cousin lives 3 hours away, has a lot on his plate already, and doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with the repercussions. He's a good guy, will try hard, but how much can you really expect?
But i hear it's been pretty country clubby up at Crystal so far with skate-on lifts and untouched pow. So I'm happy for ya.
