Passholder loyalty -- and vice versa.

Mt Hood Skibowl's offer came out last week.  <br><br>They're offering an unlimited 05/06 season pass to current season pass holders for $199.  By comparison, this year's unlimited pass was $390.  <br><br>To my mind, that's a pretty fair deal.  Color me in!<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>     <br><br>

Wow, I am suprised at all the complaints seen on these forums about Stevens being stingy, it is shocking to see the prices at Crystal.<br><br>Did Crystal ever offer end of the year sales for the next year? Even with the 20% (weather) discount, the anytime ticket is over $200 more than the Stevens pass lift pass.<br><br>Alan

When I was skiing at Crystal last week... I was thinking, "This is too much fun.. now Crystal won't give us much of a break! " Of course lift ticket purchasers only had to pay $35.00 and they closed the lifts at 3:00 pm<br><br>I am sure the Crystal mgt. guys are smiling for that good snow we had last week... let them off the hook. So they throw us a small bone. 12% break on a mid week pass. <br><br>Well, they did build a new lodge. I guess I can't complain too much. But I think my name should go on a paver somewhere. The season pass buyers saved Crystal's financial rear ends this year. <br>

<br>Quote from Stevens Pass Letter to Pass Holders:<br>However, the probability of next season being below normal is about 50% (roughly half the seasons must be below normal, right?). Unfortunately, it's really even more than that, since about 55-60% of seasons fall below the average (mean) in the type of probability distribution that snowfall stats have. In other words, the median value is less than the average, which is skewed upward by the occasional huge snow years.<br><br>Sorry for talking about math and stuff.<br>

<br><br>I always have liked the analysis of snow data on your site, Amar.  I do have to ask, though.  Have you ever looked an autocorrelation plot of the snow data?  I haven't lived around here long but over the last couple winters it seems like a good one has been followed by a bad one.  Here is what I remember from the last few years at SkiBowl.<br><br>2005 - Closed most of the year<br>2004 - Great year, lots of snow late December/January<br>2003 - Not so good, closed for a while in January.  Like this year there was some new snow late in the season.<br>2002 - Very good year. Lots of snow through March<br>2001 - A little fuzzy but I think this was a decent year<br>2000 - We didn't live here then but this was a record (or near record) year from what I have heard.<br><br>We usually get passes at SkiBowl and while this year didn't work out, I was glad to hear about next year's offer.