“Copper is bringing you some holiday relief by freeing up blackout dates on the Four Pass! Four days of skiing and snowboarding access to Copper’s one-of-a-kind naturally divided terrain and FREE parking. Blackout days lifted!” Rock on. Nobody likes a blackout date.
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There are a ton of parties, events, and concerts coming to Denver this week as the snowsports industry descends on Denver, Colorado. The 2010 SIA Snow Show trade expo will be taking over downtown. Even if you’re not attending the show, you should be downtown this week as there will be plenty of fun to be had. Check out the Apres Ski website for the comprehensive list of events: http://www.denver.org/apresski/home.aspx
I’ll be downtown all week at various parties and events. If you’re around and would like to meet up, feel free to follow Colorado Snow on twitter or send an email to devin@cosnow.com.
Here we are half-way through January 2010 and most of Colorado’s most popular resorts are at 20-30″ bases. Most resorts don’t have enough snow to open up expert (non-man-made snow) terrain such as the Montezuma Bowl at Arapahoe Basin. So, it’s with even one or two inches that we get excited. It’s not much to get excited for, but it’s something. Given the state of things, every little bit helps. Joel Gratz has more information on the wave of storms moving through Colorado this week. Expect some good snow by this weekend!
Congratulations to Lindsey Vonn, alpine ski racer, U.S. Ski Team member, and Vail celebrity. The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame named her the 2009 Athlete of the Year. This year she re-claimed the overall World Cup champion title and became the first American woman to win the world Super-G title. You can follow Lindsey on her blog at lindseyvonn.com, and is active on twitter at @lindseyvonn.
If you hadn’t heard, Arapahoe Basin is losing it’s “hard core” exterior and becoming “resortized” by Vail Resorts. With the parking upgrades and Montezuma Bowl lift, it’s hard to argue the resort isn’t trying to stay competitive with the major resorts. So, this summer A-Basin will be adding a high-speed quad lift to replace Exhibition at the bottom of the mountain. Suggestions for the name of the lift are being accepted at alanh@a-basin.net with the winner reciving a 2010-11 Arapahoe Basin Season Pass or $300 gift certificate to Arapahoe Sports. (via DenverPost)
It’s going to be a busy weekend January 28 – January 31, not only with the SIA Snow Show be in Denver, but the Winter X Games will be in Aspen. Winter X Games 14 will be broadcast on ESPN and online coverage can be found on their Snowboarding blog and Freeskiing blog.
If you’re a Vail Resorts season pass holder (Summit Pass, Colorado Pass, Epic Pass), keep in mind you have 6 “Ski With A Friend” passes to use this season. This entitles you to discounted lift tickets at the window. We recently visited Beaver Creek where a $97 adult ticket became $65 with the discount. For pricing details (as it varies during the season) visit snow.com or call 888-215-3867.
Updated: As Nicole pointed out, ‘buddy passes’ are different than ‘ski with a friend’ passes and prices are posted online. Thanks!
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Are there any lifts of the blackout dates for individuals who have the copper/mt/winter park pass that was offered through Wells Fargo bank to college students in Greely, Co at a discount price. I believe students who opened up a checking account at Wells Fargo got 50% off of a Copper Mt./Winter park season pass. Are there any lifts of blackout dates for purchasing tickets for friends on this card?
Hey Doug, there aren’t any differences in restrictions for those pass holders who used the Wells Fargo ‘College Pass’ 2-for-1 deal.
From what I can tell there are no blackout dates or restrictions on the current season passes.
This “lure” to the slopes with a “claimed” lifting of black-out dates on the Trans-four pass was a complete “bait-and-switch.” Our 19-year-old son went to Copper on December 29 with a Trans-Four pass and was denied by the lift operator and guest services, claiming that it was a black-out date and the Trans Four pass was no good. He argued that the black-out dates had been lifted (SEE ARTICLE ABOVE). He was DENIED again and told he had to buy the $92 pass to ski (with his sister, who had a season pass) that day. What a disappointment for a kid home from college, and who had no “spare” $92! He relied on Copper Mountain’s “bait” to get to the slope — but then it pulled this “switch!” Hey, isn’t that illegal?
They did not lift the blackout dates on the Trans Four pass. They only lifted them on the Copper Four Pass. Two different passes, two different prices. The Trans Four has no picture and is completely trasnferable and was available online ($189). The Four Pass is picture specific and could only be bought locally($139). Basically, they rewarded the local buyer by cancelling all the blackout dates.
Humpday Hooky on Feb. 4th was a huge scam too! KBPI sucks for advertising this sweet deal for over a year and then limiting it to 500 tickets which dissapeared in less than 3 minutes! Talk about bait. Take the day off ahead of time to get denied when ticket printing time came.
Wow, I had no idea, Christina. Thanks for sharing. We’ll be wary of that in the future.