Crystal discontinues walk-up weekend/holiday tix

I was up there on Sunday.

I left at 6:00 from Tacoma. Did take a long time driving.

However, the lines on the lifts were not that bad from other times I have been there. That was weird. I have been there when the lots were not full, but the lines were long. The longest lines were at GV. Northway had some lines, but were always manageable. Visibility sucked out there for lots of time for me.

The last time I bought a ticket at Crystal on a weekend I got all of five runs -- spent most of the day in queues.

However, the lines on the lifts were not that bad from other times I have been there.  That was weird.  I have been there when the lots were not full, but the lines were long.  The longest lines were at GV.  Northway had some lines, but were always manageable.  Visibility sucked out there for lots of time for me.

This is correct.
I've skied every weekend during the recent "overcrowding " and had  manageable lift lines. Sure it's busy but with some common sense it's still possible to enjoy a good day skiing. 
People are sheep.... if you must get rope drop in Northway on a busy powder Saturday then you are going to stand in a big line as there is a mad rush .An hour later the line will ok again.
The problem at Crystal has been the parking lots filling up so early and the lodges overflowing with  recreational skiers and families who do two runs, burn their legs and then sit in the lodge for two hours drinking beer and pizza. That's good, they aren't in my stash or in the lift line.

This is the new norm . Adapt and use common sense. If everybody goes to Chair 6 go to Short North. Etc.

To bad honesty is dead in America. 2018/19 8,000 season passes. 2019/20 29,000 season passes. Parking changes 2020 summer after increase in sales.How many other "Resorts" do not let the heathen poor ski bums? Fish stink starts at the head, no different here. At least the last owners stupidity was funnier, wife destroys husbands chairlift!

Reading the notice to the community I saw that the military was also on the excision list.
Thanks for your service.
The rhetoric of the notice was like someone burning you with a blowtorch but telling you how great it is for you.

Crystal wants people who are pissed off about the crowds, and the oversell of Ikon passes, to think they are doing something about it. But in reality, their new police will do nothing about crowds and is just a clever way for Alterra/Crystal to increase profits. It's not like anyone who wants to buy a day ticket on the weekend would be able to get to Crystal on the weekend to buy said day ticket (they would likely be stuck in the traffic line). And there are a ton of exceptions to the new no day tickets on weekend rules. All pre-paid tickets are valid. Founders club tickets are valid. 5 day tickets are valid. There are supposedly 30,000 Ikon pass holders in the Puget Sound area this year (up from 10,000 last year). Each one of these 30,000 pass holders has eight "friends and family discounts" that can still be used to buy tickets from the window on the weekend regardless of whether the online site states they have sold out. And you get a 25% off with this discount. So if anyone wants to ski on the weekend and has no way to buy a ticket day of from the window, just find one of these 30,000 Ikon pass holders and have them buy the ticket for you. What Crystal's new policy really does is encourage people to buy tickets in advance, buy the 5 day ticket, or buy an Ikon pass next year. Alterra/Ikon and Vail/Epic has determined these advance ticket sales allows them to maximize profits. And they serve up their new policy to the gullible with words like "community" and "too much much love."