Crystal discontinues walk-up weekend/holiday tix

Lots of people riled up over the policy change. I view it as business as usual. I have my doubts it will have a significant impact on lot or hill crowding. As others mentioned the lift lines are not bad even when the lots are at capacity. Leave earlier to get a parking spot. Always carpool!

Crystal's off season plans include building additional parking lots (not sure where) and figuring out a park and bus system from Enumclaw. So we'll see if the lift lines are still "not that bad."

Well, we all knew that sooner or later our local hill would be outed -- and that day is upon us. Sadly, IMHO.

With respect to additional parking, next up is Lot G, which is looker's right just past the diesel backup station as you drive up the Blvd. A preliminary grading was done last fall but was not polished enough to be active this year.

The 2004 Master Plan mentions "parking" 110 times. Load this file and hit Ctl + F. It looks like Lot G needs to be the first domino to fall, followed by a reduction in Log F.

skimap.org/data/193/1460/1392057371.pdf

LMK if there is an update to this 2004 Plan.

The plan describes "Lot G" as having 125 RV parking spaces and the current RV spaces in "Lot B" being converted to regular parking. The map does show an expansion of "Lot F".

So weekends at Crystal will get even longer lift lines. Whoo Hoo.

The Bullion basin lift seems less about skiing and more about being able to promote property development with "ski in ski out". If that's going to work -- they are going to need a bunch of snow making machines -- They moved the old Bullion Basin lift to Gold Hills due lack of coverage.

I keep seeing FB posts with photos of ginormous lift lines around the country, and also ginormous traffic backups on the way to ski resorts. It's how it is.

There's one of those photos in this story about a day when the crowds exceeded expectations at Vail recently Vail Corp apologizes for long lift line