Fast Tracks: Paying to Cut the Line

[TheGreatAbyss]

Is there a limit on how many of these they sell? Feels like this could backfire. The average skier will spend a ton of money to go to Killington only to see people who spent even more money cut in front of them. After a long weekend of 30 minute lift lines they'll be looking elsewhere for their yearly ski trip.

 

[G.ski]

Glad I will ski K midweek only. Doubt many of these "cut the line" passes will be used midweek.

Maybe I'll head to K for weekend entertainment as fights break out in lift lines over this. I think K once tried to introduce this type of thing a few years back specific to powder days. Once the regulars and passholders found out that got cancelled pronto. Sounds like it's set in stone now.

More reason to stick to slow fixed grip lifts.

 

[NYSkiBlog]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1447636692240846850

 

[Harvey]

After the lines at a lot of places last year they must think people are ready to pay for this.

I'm not ready. I don't want to be in one of those lines, and I don't want to be there when it is happening. It's not some moral highground, I just think it will suck somehow.

Plattekill pass feels like protection from this kind of thinking.

 

[jasonwx]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1447636692240846850

Imagine if you could cut the tram line on a powder day. Lol
That would be video gold.

 

[Emily]

Stratton does have this, but I do not see many people using the line. I have an old habit of watching the special line. Vernon Valley and Great Gorge both had a special line way back in the 1960s/1970s. I used to dream about being able to use that line. Now we have HSQs and I no longer have to wait 30 minutes to get on a chairlift.

In order to access this perk at Stratton, one must first be a member of the Stratton Mountain Club. Then there are add on’s to the membership, which affords one the ability to access the express lines at the lifts.

 

[Ripitz]

I don't want to be in one of those lines, and I don't want to be there when it is happening

Thankfully, I’m fairly certain I won’t be there to see it. It will save me the awkward conversation I would have to have with Peanut, that what we’ve been teaching her and what has been reinforced at pre-school is all wrong. Silly things like;
Wait your turn.
Don’t cut the line.
All of us are equal.
Patience is a virtue.
Good things come to those who wait.

 

[snoloco]

Wait your turn.
Don’t cut the line.
All of us are equal.
Patience is a virtue.
Good things come to those who wait.

Unless you pay extra, then you can cut the line.

 

[Ripitz]

Unless you pay extra, then you can cut the line.

It’s “can’t” sno.

 

[trackbiker]

Fast passes......The Disneyfication of skiing. No thanks.