Our Take
Powder Mountain has made plenty of questionable selections over the previous yr, however that is arguably their most boneheaded resolution but.
On high of coming off as extremely obnoxious to most of the people (which, one would think about is the place a large chunk of income remains to be coming from), the transfer additionally straight hurts many passholders. A number of of them most likely have buddies or household they’d prefer to ski with in the course of the February busy interval, and now they’ll’t carry them alongside on weekends. To not point out that even throughout these instances, the Village and Mary’s resort areas will stay unique to owners and closed off to different passholders
However probably the most ridiculous facet of this announcement is timing. Many individuals have already booked ski weekends to Powder Mountain in February, solely to now discover out they gained’t have the ability to ski or trip. So as to add insult to harm, the resort is actively encouraging these affected to purchase season passes—an extremely tone-deaf transfer, given these visitors are actually being requested to spend much more cash by a administration that’s completely upended their plans. As well as, Powder Mountain has traditionally been famend for the restricted amount of season passes they promote, and by making an attempt to get extra individuals to purchase them, the resort is now appearing within the actual reverse spirit of that very precept.
Finally, this resolution is more likely to severely erode Powder Mountain’s belief to the general public, and rightfully so.
We’ve additionally coated the opposite modifications at Powder Mountain this yr in our mountain evaluation, video (linked under), and up to date writeup on parking modifications.
