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[quote=Anonymous]The only way skiing is affordable is if you live near a ski hill, are willing to have used gear and don’t care where you ski. My season pass is $699 when bought at its cheapest price in the spring. Kids 12 and under get a free season pass. For me, it means 4 of us ski for $699 this year. My spouse doesn’t partake.

The pass provides all access at my local place as well as several partner resorts in Utah and Colorado and limited days for the adults (like 2-4) at a few other resorts. None of them are places you’d “fly out west” to ski, but it’s still skiing.

Since we only ski recreationally, we buy used gear and hand it down kid it kid. This year, we bought the oldest very lightly used skis and boots off a family friend for $250 and used poles for $30. The skis/boots were about $100 more than we’ve previously paid, but could end up being longer term skis for the middle child. No one needed any gear other than one ski jacket that was purchased for $50.  At the beginning of the season, I sold out grown skis and gear for $150.

We’re at about $1050 for the season. We’ve skied some locally and twice at a partner resort. We stayed with family there. Unfortunately, there has been little snow and the local conditions are not good so I may not use my pass enough to make it worth it. This is the last year all my kids qualify for the free pass, so the pass cost will increase next year.

If we lived elsewhere, we wouldn’t ski due to the cost, but here we can make it work. 
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