SAM Magazine—Granby, Colo., March 8, 2024—Seven new alpine resorts have been added to the Indy Pass for the 2024-25 season, together with 4 owned by Pacific Group Resorts Inc.
New alpine resorts embody:
Big Moose Mountain, Maine
Mt. Eyak, Alaska
Mt. Washington Alpine Resort, British Columbia
Powderhorn Mountain Resort, Colo.
Steeplechase, Minn.
Wintergreen Resort, Va.
Wisp Resort, Md.
New discounted cat snowboarding operations Include:
Big Red Cats, British Columbia
Selkirk Powder, Idaho
Brundage Mountain Snowcat Adventures, Idaho
Soldier Mountain Cat Skiing, Idaho
Cascade Powder Guides, Wash.
With the additions, 5 out of six PGRI-owned ski areas at the moment are Indy Pass companions. Jay Peak, Vt., was already on-board when PGRI acquired it in November 2022.
“Getting to know the Indy Pass team over the past few years and seeing the positive results at Jay Peak gave us confidence to move forward,” PGRI CMO Christian Knapp instructed SAM. “We have a ton of respect for what [Indy Pass founder Doug Fish] and the Entabeni team have accomplished and they’ve listened to our feedback. Adding more of our resorts to the product is mutually beneficial, and most importantly, good for the Indy Pass customer.”
Ragged Mountain, N.H., is the one PGRI property that isn’t included on the move. Knapp mentioned the corporate is “taking a more cautious approach with Ragged Mountain since there is such a high concentration of Indy Pass holders in New England,” including that reciprocal access to Jay Peak was added to the Ragged Mission Affordable season move final season, and it’s been very talked-about. “Optimizing that benefit is our priority in the short term,” he mentioned.
Indy Pass and Entabeni Systems proprietor Erik Mogensen mentioned, “We are in discussions with Ragged, however we need to be respectful of Indy companions in that area and assist move gross sales, not cannibalize them.”
As for together with the ten p.c low cost on cat snowboarding, a distinct route for the Indy Pass, Mogensen mentioned Indy has been “good at getting people to go someplace they might not have gone before, and we think this will apply to cat skiing as well.” It’s an opportunity for the cat operators to promote seats they could not have in any other case bought, he mentioned, “which is needed for these operations to be successful.”
