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2012/2013 Early Bird Season Pass Sale Begins
| February 17, 2012 | ||
| 9:00 am |
Enjoy the best price of the year on 2012/2013 Season Passes and SKI THE REST OF THIS SEASON FOR FREE.
| February 17, 2012 | ||
| 9:00 am |
Enjoy the best price of the year on 2012/2013 Season Passes and SKI THE REST OF THIS SEASON FOR FREE.
December 15th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Are the prices going up again this year?? It seems like the only people to get any good deals are the new pass holders. What about the locals that have supported this mountain for so long? Do we get any appreciation?
December 16th, 2011 at 7:15 am
Hi Crystal -
Thanks for taking the time to write in and share your thoughts. We have not set the prices for the 2012/2013 season passes yet, but I will pass along your comments to make sure they are considered when we do so. Thanks!
January 5th, 2012 at 10:41 am
Why does the early bird season pass sale have to be so early, it used to be in April so everyone could use their tax refund to buy the passes, now we are barely out of the Christmas season and barely skiing and we have to find the money. Most everyone who buys these passes already has their pass for the year so we don’t need to use the 12/13 pass for the 11/12 season. Should would help us out to move it back to the way it used to be.
January 6th, 2012 at 4:51 am
Hi Ginger –
Thank you for writing in with your suggestion. We do consider everyone’s input when making plans for our early season pass sale. To give you some background, we moved the sale up to the beginning of President’s weekend several years ago to add more value to the purchase. A lot of people purchase that pass and use it during that 3-day holiday weekend and for the rest of the Spring. We’ve started doing a three-phase sale, with the first phase of pricing starting Presidents weekend and lasting for a short time. The second phase lasts all the way until May 1, so those who need to wait to use their tax return have ample opportunity to buy at that price, which is still a VERY good deal compared to the post-May 1 price. We haven’t set our pricing yet for this year, but you can click here to see how those phases worked last year.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Would like to see a “locals discount” on ski passes, for all of us poor folks that are staying put and hanging on!
January 18th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Hi Nancy –
Thanks for taking the time to write in with your suggestion. We appreciate our loyal visitors and do what we can to keep prices affordable so that our business can continue to survive and employ so many local people.
January 26th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
The prices for the season passes just keep creeping upwards. Jobs are scarce and some of us are living on much less these days. How can Brundage justify the price increases every year?
It’s harder and harder to manage the day at the resort with so much of it off limits to those of us who cannot afford to purchase the expensive and not very good food offered or who choose not to spend our day drinking in the bar.
Why is the 3rd floor closing at the exact same time the lifts stop?
What happened to the bag check? Not all of us want to put our boots on in the parking lot and wear them down walking to the hill.
January 26th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Hi Syringa –
Thank you for taking the time to write in with your thoughts. We welcome the input of all of our guests. Hopefully I can help answer some of your questions here in this forum.
Brundage Mountain does not increase season pass prices every year, and has not announced what our pricing will be for next season. We do need to cover our expenses, and just like most families, we are paying significantly more for fuel and electricity these days. We can only conserve fuel and electricity so much and still run our chairlifts and properly groom the slopes. If you compare our prices to other similarly-sized resorts, I think you’ll find our pass prices are more than competitive. We also lost out on 12 of our 14 busiest days due to the snow situation this year, so we need to operate even more efficiently than ever before. We can no longer afford to operate services like Bag Check that do not support themselves. We do offer $5 day lockers that you can rent through Guest Services. They are large and could easily hold the gear of several people or a whole family.
We are also in the process of re-working some things on the 3rd floor. Starting next week, the seating area will remain open to everyone even when we are not staffing the kitchen itself. The food in Smoky’s is reasonably priced and snack foods are also available down there and we now have an area for children as well as adults. If you would like to bring your own food, you are welcome to do so on the third floor. I would, however, also encourage you to give our food another try. We have a new chef this year and the quality and flavor are noticably improved! We do our best to offer the best product possible and keep prices affordable and welcome the input of our visitors.
January 29th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
I totally agree with the other comments, those of us that live here and work and make Valley co. area wages do find it hard to be able to come up with the funds for the passes. It seems that Brundage would rather give a discount to someone who can pay for passes to ski both Brundage and Bogus. But what about the working class middle income? We are barely scraping by, and half of us are living off of unemp. for the winter. Honestly, the jobs that Brundage brings in are only a drop in the bucket.
January 30th, 2012 at 9:29 am
How big an increase in pass prices this year? I don’t see anything listed.
January 31st, 2012 at 9:45 am
Hi Colleen – We hope to have this year’s pass prices published by the end of this week.
January 31st, 2012 at 9:48 am
Hi Ann –
We have several ways for local people to earn passes if they can’t afford to pay the early season price. First off, we employ almost 200 people here during the winter in a wide variety of jobs. So that’s clearly an alternative to collecting unemployment. You can also earn a pass as a Brundage Mountain Ambassador. The hours tend to be more flexible for those who are working at another job but you can still earn a season pass that way. You can find all the details here. http://www.brundage.com/about-brundage/employment/job-openings/.