Alta Ticket Price Trend

jamesdeluxe

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Admin":24d3t111 said:
To paraphrase a famous line from Monty Python, "She's not dead yet!"
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That's what I was thinking. This is similar to rfarren's "Alta's tickets are *only* $50!" claim... "only" off by 30%. :lol:

Admin will have to school him in the art of fact checking.
:brick:
 
jamesdeluxe":36b4fq4k said:
Admin will have to school him in the art of fact checking.
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Wouldn't that be similar to and just as frustrating as trying to get departed icelanticskier to admit that 38F and rain followed by -5F doesn't leave powder?
 
jamesdeluxe":13iuiuce said:
Admin":13iuiuce said:
To paraphrase a famous line from Monty Python, "She's not dead yet!"
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That's what I was thinking. This is similar to rfarren's "Alta's tickets are *only* $50!" claim... "only" off by 30%. :lol:

Admin will have to school him in the art of fact checking.
:brick:
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In my defense: I admitted the mistake about Alta. I really thought their tickets were under $60. At least they were last year. Again, for some reason I remember in 2005 the lift tickets were like $48. I could be wrong, and would love to know exactly what they were during the last 3 years. That being said. The cover of the Daily News today: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/galleri ... pages.html

"Tragic End", "Brain Dead"

For all intensive purposes Brain Dead is dead.
 
rfarren":2wv6nh8p said:
In my defense: I admitted the mistake about Alta. I really thought their tickets were under $60. At least they were last year.
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Nope. $60 last season.


rfarren":2wv6nh8p said:
For all intensive purposes...
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That phrase makes no sense, either logically or grammatically. The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
 
Marc_C":2cscs12f said:
rfarren":2cscs12f said:
In my defense: I admitted the mistake about Alta. I really thought their tickets were under $60. At least they were last year.
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Nope. $60 last season.
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Refill was under $60.


Marc_C":2cscs12f said:
rfarren":2cscs12f said:
For all intensive purposes...
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That phrase makes no sense, either logically or grammatically. The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
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Yep, you're right, but I prefer Admin's more tactful approach to my error:

Admin":2cscs12f said:
That's "for all intents and purposes." :wink: Sorry to pick on you, but that's a pet peeve of mine, along with the misuse of "nauseous" instead of "nauseated."
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rfarren":2j8xvnct said:
On a lighter note, is it possible that one of you could post the prices for Alta daily lift tickets since 2005.
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For all intensive purposes they've been at or around $60.
 
Admin, I can't find historical lift ticket prices, but I remember that in 2006 single lift tickets were right around $50. Then I remember in 2007 the tickets were like $56. Is there a place that one could find these exact numbers.
 
rfarren":d0dez6c5 said:
Admin, I can't find historical lift ticket prices, but I remember that in 2006 single lift tickets were right around $50. Then I remember in 2007 the tickets were like $56. Is there a place that one could find these exact numbers.
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I was, of course, busting stones. However, Google is your friend -- or, just go to Alta's website and look it up:

2008-09: $64 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates08.doc)
2007-08: $59 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates07.doc)
2006-07: $52 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates06.pdf)
2005-06: $49 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates05.doc)

Prices have risen steadily and rather steeply over that period. For the past two seasons, however, there's been a reload price for $5 less once you have the RFID ticket.
 
Admin":1vschsc2 said:
2008-09: $64 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates08.doc)
2007-08: $59 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates07.doc)
2006-07: $52 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates06.pdf)
2005-06: $49 (via http://www.alta.com/documents/pressdocs ... ates05.doc)

Prices have risen steadily and rather steeply over that period. For the past two seasons, however, there's been a reload price for $5 less once you have the RFID ticket.
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Last year when I went out twice I saved my card, so I got the reload price 9 days out of 10. I knew I wasn't crazy, I remembered the ticket prices around $50.

They really have raised the prices dramatically though! The first time I had to pay for my own ski vacation I went to Alta in large part because the lift tickets were only $49 whereas Snowbird was like $68. IMHO it was the best deal in the country. Last year with the reload price it was still reasonable, but now it's starting to get up there. :x Nonetheless, it is still probably the best deal in the country, although the chairs only snowbird deal is making a run for that title.
 
rfarren":3lao2aed said:
Nonetheless, it is still probably the best deal in the country, although the chairs only snowbird deal is making a run for that title.
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Snowbird Chairs-only is $62, which is $3 more than Alta's reload price.
 
jamesdeluxe":19etbzw6 said:
rfarren":19etbzw6 said:
They really have raised the prices dramatically though!
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Nice, you post about a tragic accident, then get distracted.

How about a little respect for the brain dead?
:-$
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Again James, you make me laugh out loud!

Admin":19etbzw6 said:
rfarren":19etbzw6 said:
Nonetheless, it is still probably the best deal in the country, although the chairs only snowbird deal is making a run for that title.
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Snowbird Chairs-only is $62, which is $3 more than Alta's reload price.
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It's getting closer every year...that is, as long as Alta continues it's steep rise in prices.
 
Admin":t83l00j1 said:
I'd hardly define an average of $2.50/season as a steep increase.
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With the refill price it's an increase of $2.50, without $3.75. Either way, I would suspect that the increase in price has gone up faster in comparison to the national rate of inflation. That being said I could also be getting cheaper as I get older. :)
 
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