duffman

As someone who's had Ikons x4 (including the screaming deal on 2 kids passes) for a few years now, and had blue passes last year but opted not to renew, this is fantastic for us. We live in Philly and do a bunch of SLC and other Western trips each year , along with a bunch of weekend in VT so the Ikon always was a no brainer for us, but the lack of day trip skiing did suck. Got the blue passes for last year but my older kid needed a full pass , and with the generally poor conditions and many weekend taken up with travel skiing, only used them enough to break even on the cost. So we decided to not re-up and just deal with day tickets, despite blues sometimes outrageous pricing on weekend tickets with no discounts for kids. Looking like that gamble payed off. From a corporate $$$ perspective, KSL owns both blue and camelback and is also an owner of Alterra who runs Ikon, so while Blue isn't an Alterra corp mountain ,it's still related and always seemed inevitable that they would be added to Ikon at some point. My WAG is that Blue pass sales dropped a lot from the COVID boom after last year's no snow (I was called multiple times even months after the deadline asking if I still wanted to renew at the early bird price), so that the risk of the Ikon poaching full pass sales became reasonable to the mountain. My guess is also for those of you who do more blue days and still need a full blue pass, they will eventually (prob next year but maybe sooner) add the Ikon add on option to the full blue pass, like how Killington, Snowbird , Jackson and the other affiliated but not Alterra owned mountains offer .

The Ikon in spring with a new pass purchase typically lets you ski at the Alterra owned mountains in April or beyond, So nearby Sugarbush or Stratton, out west, Winter Park, Copper, Steamboat, Mammoth, Squawlpine for sure. No Snowbird as that's a partner mountain, same with Killington. Mammoth and Squawlpine should go late this year so could get your money's worth there.

They made us bring proof of age if I remember for her 5 and under pass this year..

Anyone know what to do for a kid turning 10 by Dec? We both had all access passes but between being in Philly, the late start and lousy weather , and traveling a bunch with our Ikon passes , we.really haven't used the passes we bought last spring enough. My other kid is 5 so the kid pass was a good deal for her, which would convince me to re-up for myself just to get her access to that. But really tough to justify the 675 for an almost 10.year old. Anything I'm missing here or is that the only option? Thanks all and glad to see snow again!

Hahaha. So true. It's the principal of the matter..... There's Principalities involved here Smokie !

Thanks man, been lurking here for a long time , going to be up at Blue this weekend w the fam.

Ouch, $80 . I'll go the paper template and drill method. Thanks though

Hey all, anyone know how much the shop at Blue soaks you for an alpine mount? Also do you know if they can do an overnight mount ? Got new sticks for the wife's bday and wanted to see if I could get them drilled this weekend.