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Will be up Saturday because Grayson has WAC, but not skiing. Probably be in the Last Run Lounge all morning. 🤣 Sunday 630 am flight.

Camelback perks include 5 buddy passes, no money off, but like Blue if they do something like that they may only send it to their current passholders, it's only $50 off for renewing. Other perks at Camelback that folks may or may not use, so value will vary, are 4 snowtubing tickets, a season pass for the outdoor waterpark in the summer, and 4 tickets to each of the Mountain Coaster, Sunbowl tubing and the 1000 ft zipline in the green season. $25 day tickets for passholder and up to 3 guests at the indoor waterpark is actually a decent perk, that sucker is expensive. Might do a morning ski up there on our passes followed by an afternoon in the waterpark next month.

Camelback lowered their child pass age to 9 to match Blue so no incentive to even think about them next season. With 5 buddy passes there each, peak to peak for Pops and I could make sense if we get the boys up there in March and they love it, but, eh. Though it would be nice if Blue introduced a youth anytime pass like Camelback has.

I knowbthey don't matter to most, but at caveat is thst the perks aren't available until the pass is paid off in October, which means no free tix for the summer stuff. I'll use mine on the boys, so it's worth dropping the cash up front

Even Walter (older) enjoys it once he's out there. It's the getting to the part on the snow that's just a heaping helping of bullshit. I'm tired of being in such a bad mood when I'm headed out to do something I love. Maybe a year missing out will change his attitude. But yes, Grayson does seem to be more into it, and even though he also doesn't like getting up early (or going to bed on time the night before which would make all the difference) he cooperates at least. I really wish the student pass would qualify for the afternoon Adventure Camp, that would be the no brainer solution for us, the wife could bring them up and drop them to me when I'm done in the morning.

Maybe we'll get an email with the offer. I'm not sure if anything was posted their website about it, but they sent emails iirc. I haven't seen any emails today about passes being on sale yet

Same price as last year, nice. Gotta decide on the strategy for the kids this year though. Both no longer qualify for the child pass. Walter was such an asshole about waking up to go to Adventure Camp this year, I've sworn up and down he's out for next year. $1300 (pass plus camp) is a helluva price tag for someone who acts so miserable about it.

Was definitely a week off in picking the dates for our Steamboat trip. After about 10 days of at least some snow every day, looks like nothing in the forecast for next week. At least the coverage should be good!

That one I'm not sure about. Under the Buddy vouchers in my account there's two buttons, Transfer and Redeem. Redeem still sends me to the page with @saltyant face down in the snow with his feet in the air, and Transfer looks like you can only transfer it to people who are associated on your account: When you click on the drop down for Associate there is an "Add a new party member" option that lets you put in name and email and all, so I imagine you could add them, then transfer to them, and they would get an email telling them they had the voucher and could then redeem it. Probably have to do it in person tho (the redeem) since that button is broken. But at that point, you wouldn't need to be with them.

We have a spare bed in the condo, if @Benm doesn't mind sharing a room with Pops, he's more than welcome to join us!

Sad to miss this, but I'll console myself with our first ski day in Steamboat, first ever for my kids anywhere but Blue, lol

You should have an email with the gift card attached. When you check out just click on Add a Gift Card and a box will pop up to enter the card number and PIN and it will apply it to the purchase:

In my passholder survey I railed against that intersection a bit. I suggested that in the short term they should pull down the building and terrace Burma into the hillside above the learning area, pull out a small amount of trees and carry it over to Barb's Way. Not real great though, because even if they put up the large amount of fencing needed between shuttle and the new terraced area, the chucklheads that ski Blue will still crash the netting and fall down it. On busy weekend days where it's crazy crowded (and lower Sidewinder isn't closed) they could close down the last bit of Lazy Mile and force Lazy skiers to Lower SW or Falls to help ease the three way intersection. But that probably just shifts the issue to the bit at the bottom of Sidewinder. The rumored move of tubing leading to the move of learning area leading to the continuation of trails down that way really is the answer, but it's certainly not short term.

Maybe the owners held onto the land but sold the business? Would seem like a terrible deal for the buyers, but you never know. That would explain not being able to find a land transfer record. Doesn't help keep the secret tho.

IIRC, last year early bird was $699, so I would go with $749 but since that's already taken, I'll go with $729. Can't see them going down in price after delivering a pretty great season, and inflation and all.