MissySki
Angel Diva
They don’t offer the Ikon as a higher tier add on to your season pass? A lot of partner resorts do, including Sunday River. It makes the base pass like $300 or something silly cheap that just makes sense if you will visit an Ikon resort on a trip that season. Though the annoying thing is they will not allow you to upgrade to the full at all, you have to get that separately at full price if you need it based on where you are traveling. Though I’d guess that also helps keep the number of people with full passes down such that the resorts who require it gain some number controls for being exclusive to that tier of pass.Snowbasin is owned by the Holding family/Sinclair Oil. They also own several hotel properties (Grand America and Little America in SLC, others in San Diego.) The GM knows full well how the locals feel. I ski with people who have skied this mountain for 50+ years, and grew up skiing here. Things really began to go the wrong direction when Earl Holding died 10-ish years ago. It's become just another money grab which is how our culture, particularly corporate culture, has been trending for the past 20+ years.
As far as pass prices, they actually have gone up about $500 in the past 4 years for the premier pass. Anyone who doesn't know the mountain and what IKON has done to it really don't understand.
The biggest slap in the face is that as Snowbasin passholders, we get ZERO IKON benefits. We are getting a vastly degraded product for a higher cost.