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Old Nov 28, 2024, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Nammu View Post
Man! I had no idea it was so expensive to ski. Growing up the only place was two plus hours away. I was invited to go with a group going in my jr year of high school but my parents said no. Don’t recall how much it was but it was expensive then too.

Now this year all the places are making their own snow for thanksgiving weekend. But it’s gonna be cold!
Yeah, it's nuts now. I used to get 50+ days in on a $350 season pass, so like $7/day, but now I don't even know if there'd be 50+ enjoyable days at my local ski area whose daily tickets are $80-120 depending on day of week and if bought in advance.

There's this one mountain (not my local one, but I do consider it home in some ways because I probably skied there as much) that was fabulous, I think their tickets were like $40 the first time I skied there, and now they're $100. You know what "updates" they did there? They took this one full mountain of slackcountry skiing and turned it into lift accessed race training central AKA wide, boring, and icy.

If I ever go skiing again, it's only going to be backcountry because fk paying $100 to stand in line to fight for space on icy groomers.
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