Scanning Passes

[k2rider2690]

Anyone know why the employees at bear have been scanning so many passes? i dont mind being scanned when im in line but last night i was standing inbetween the quad and double lifts talking to my friends. we were trying to decide what we were going to do when all of a sudden this guy from bear walks up to use and asks us to scan our passes! wtf i have been riding at bear for 5 years now and have been scanned 100s of times, but never when i wasnt in a lift line! i think that now they are getting like a bonus for finding people there with a bad pass or something like that. but still to me thats not right to scann a pass when i wasnt even in a lift line, i was just standing there talking to my friends!

[snowboarddude]

if you are caught w/out a good pass then u are fined $150 and a good amount of that goes to the people who find u

[toast21602]

a 'good amount' eh?

[Berserker]

i believe its about $25 or $50 the lifty gets for each invalid pass found

[Tyler]

i heard the one lifty say today that he's caught the same guy 4 times trying to use an offpeak pass on the weekend mornings.

[fireboxer09]

what does it matter if they came out and scanned you. Its not like you can only take so many runs a night. If they really want to, they can come in the lodge and scan my pass while im eating. Life's good buddy, no worries.

[GNU_rider]

They get 100 bucks for each bad pass they catch, and as long as your pass is good why's matter if they scan you but I will say if you get scanned more then once in line for the lift it's a little out of hand. (this happened to me tuesday at killington)

[A_B]

it keeps people who didnt pay off the mountain...that should make paying customers happy, not piss them off. get over it.

[Matt B]

if you have a pass then whats the big deal if they check it every run

[sibhusky]

Here you get credit for vertical with each scan and since we are all listed by our vertical achievements I WANT to get scanned and get irritated if they are being lazy about it.

 

For some reason they are really being lazy this year and one of the top five guys is bitching about what they show for him, but for some reason they show me at 87% of actual this year, whereas last year it was 30% of actual, so I think they are getting better.

[Kyle]

i'd rather get scanned a whole lotta times than pay extra $$ because some little chode was skiing/riding without a valid ticket and now we have to pay more because he told all his friends about it and they did it and that resort loses $$

[skeer_tomas]

im not going to say it doesnt get annoying but its their job. even when i have my jacket on a lot of times they scan mine. if nobody scanned there would be people coming without passes and just f-ing around with nothing to lose.

[k2rider2690]

i dont mind getting scanned in the lift line, and i understand thats their job. i just didnt really appreciate getting scanned just standing and talking to my friends at the bottome, not even in the lift line. i mean wut does it matter, if i have a bad lift ticket there going to catch me in the lift line so y not just scan their? plus then they know who they have scanned and who they havent, luckily i wasnt scaned again in the lift line.

[jordan]

a lift ticket is just that... a lift ticket. They have no right to check for one unless you are getting on the lift. What if a parent brings their kid to the mountain to go skiing, and they don't ski. Do they have to leave the premesis immediately or buy a lift ticket? Are they not allowed to chill in the lodge or walk around outside while their kid is skiing?

 

Jordan

[toast21602]

when you are on the hill with your equipment then they pretty much have the right to check for a pass if you are using their facilities. i have hiked up the park to watch a comp once and didnt need a lift ticket, but thats different. if he would have been standing there in street clothes and sneakers talking to his friends then they most likely wouldnt have checked since he wasnt skiing/boarding.

[k2rider2690]

w/e its not a big deal i just thought that they should just scan in the lift lines no just walking around scanning who ever

[Berserker]

There used to be a big problem about 3-4 years ago when everyone was just hiking the pipe (weird cause it was never really good). They weren't using the lift but were still using the facility. A lift ticket was still needed, so when someone was sent up to scan/ check for tickets the kids who didn't buy one would just ride down to avoid him.... So i say i am glad they checked your lift ticket.

[A_B]

actually the main reason they check passes is liability. purchasing a pass makes u inelegible to hold the resort responsible for any injuries. therefor management def does not want anyone on the slopes who has not purchased a ticket. it legally protects bear creek from law suits.

Edited February 26, 2007 by shoot2thrill

[k2rider2690]

yeh i know about the whole scanning passes thing and for the 10th time im not complaining that he scanned my pass. i just thought it could have waited until i was in the lift line like they have been doing for 5 years!