Snoqualmie announces 15/16 season-pass discount

Amar I always appreciate your posts and thorough research, but you may have a bit too much time on your hands.

I really intended to go skiing both yesterday and today during the semi-decent weather, up to Camp Muir as usual and also riding the lift (not lifts!!) at Crystal, but somehow didn't end up skiing either day. Annoyed with myself about that, but also have some unexpected extra time to post stuff on TAY.

By eliminating the gondola as an optional extra, xtal's "discounted" pass is still more expensive than a pass last year, at least at the midweek level. Marketing spins it: "no need to pay extra".

seems to me an important part of the crystal (or any of them really) conversation is how much of the mountain has been skiable during the 'continuous' operations. Does having just 30% of the mountain available for 75% of the season (nothing scientific, just throwing numbers out there) or something along those lines equal 'continuously open'?

I'm just waiting for them to change the season pass policies to have "Snow Insurance"

Something like, if the snow doesn't cooperate, we'll discount next year. If not, sorry

I feel like with the past few years if this keeps up, that may end up becoming the norm to keep these resorts in business.

I can't really fault Crystal's management for how much of the mountain was available. That has been out of their control and, as far as the terrain I like to ski, will always be. I think they've done a tremendous job of getting as much open as possible given the conditions. Likewise, when they installed the gondola and priced it as an extra, I fully expected that within a few years they would up the pass price and make it all inclusive. All I'm complaining about is the timing and being given a discount that costs more than what I paid last year. Also that Tuesday is looking good and I probably will have to hike.