Loveland Ski Resort

[Southendzonehusker]

Oh boy are those days gone! A season pass is $1000. Don't even get me started on the lodging pricing. It's ridiculous. Rentals are almost $100 a day now. I bought my own gear years ago after getting a staff infection from a shitty rental place.

Gotta buy the season pass at the end of the prior year. They are more than half off and if you ski for more than 3 days it pays for itself

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

This couldn’t be more accurate. Schoolmarm has plenty of greens off of it to mix it up a bit and some easier blue runs too. Took our kids to keystone when they learned to ski. Put them in a 1 day class and have never worried once about them. Downside is that keystone has gotten pretty expensive.

What's nuts is I went to Chamonix France last year for Christmas and skied at three different resorts with my kids. A three day pass for me was like 125 bucks. That's about 3 hrs at a US resort now.

 

[theDankness]

Looking to take the family skiing and for all but me, they are first time skiers. I've heard good things about Loveland Ski Resort for beginners, in that the cost of their lift tickets and rental gear is pretty reasonable, but also that you can do either a beginner mountain that is generally not packed, or a mixed mountain (was thinking beginner for them one day, advanced the next). Anyone skied there before and have any thoughts?

They're all 20+, so no littles.

How old are the kids?

 

[SlumpBuster]

Looking to take the family skiing and for all but me, they are first time skiers. I've heard good things about Loveland Ski Resort for beginners, in that the cost of their lift tickets and rental gear is pretty reasonable, but also that you can do either a beginner mountain that is generally not packed, or a mixed mountain (was thinking beginner for them one day, advanced the next). Anyone skied there before and have any thoughts?

They're all 20+, so no littles.

Breck is the best for beginners, but much pricier. You can live on the quicksilver lift and there's like 3-4 runs over there that are maybe the easiest runs in all of Summit County to learn on (they are pretty boring for advanced skiers though, I usually try to ski them backwards if I can LOL). The chair is huge and fast and it's one of those detach slow down chairs that loads really really easy.

Loveland isn't too bad. Vail/BC aren't awful (but Vail is weird because all the easy greens are at the top of the mountain).

As someone who has taken beginners skiing a ton, I can't disagree MORE with Keystone, it's the LAST place I'd take someone who's never skied before. Keystone is great once you get past the initial beginner stuff, but you really only have one small run for beginners and that's SCOUT with a tiny 2 person slow chair to get back up (which is steeper than the runs off QuickSilver @ Breck).

Talk to any of the instructors at Keystone (I know a few of them) and they said all the time the worst thing that happens is that people who have never skied before attempt schoolmarm. It's just too dang long and once you're on it, there's no easy way out. If you're day 3 and really getting your skis under you, schoolmarm can be good. But for day 1 NO WAY, day 2 would only be for the athletic types that learn fast.


I ski on average 20ish days a year for the last 15 years, but I'm not a local and I've brought several people who are brand new skiers to different mountains in CO.

 

[SlumpBuster]

Oh boy are those days gone! A season pass is $1000. Don't even get me started on the lodging pricing. It's ridiculous. Rentals are almost $100 a day now. I bought my own gear years ago after getting a staff infection from a shitty rental place.

The best deals are the 4-7 day packs if you don't ski a ton (but you have to buy them early like before October). You can seriously get in for like $100/day. I know that's still way more than it used to be but it's a great deal.

Otherwise if you're going to do more than 6 or 7 days, the local pass is still pretty good. My wife is a vet so I can get the veteran pass, but I usually buy the epic because we have friends that live near Telluride and like to go there.

 

[SlumpBuster]

Breck is the best for beginners, but much pricier. You can live on the quicksilver lift and there's like 3-4 runs over there that are maybe the easiest runs in all of Summit County to learn on (they are pretty boring for advanced skiers though, I usually try to ski them backwards if I can LOL). The chair is huge and it's one of those super slow chairs that loads really really easy.

Loveland isn't too bad. Vail/BC aren't awful (but Vail is weird because all the easy greens are at the top of the mountain).

As someone who has taken beginners skiing a ton, I can't disagree MORE with Keystone, it's the LAST place I'd take someone who's never skied before. Keystone is great once you get past the initial beginner stuff, but you really only have one small run for beginners and that's SCOUT with a tiny 2 person slow chair to get back up (which is steeper than the runs off QuickSilver @ Breck).

Talk to any of the instructors at Keystone (I know a few of them) and they said all the time the worst thing that happens is that people who have never skied before attempt schoolmarm. It's just too dang long and once you're on it, there's no easy way out. If you're day 3 and really getting your skis under you, schoolmarm can be good. But for day 1 NO WAY, day 2 would only be for the athletic types that learn fast.


I ski on average 20ish days a year for the last 15 years, but I'm not a local and I've brought several people who are brand new skiers to different mountains in CO.

LOL this now showed up on my facebook feed:

 

[jaihawk]

How old are the kids?

Daughter #1 - 21, Boyfriend - 23
Daughter #2 - 20, Boyfriend - 20

 

[Jim14510]

I've never been skiing. Water or snow. Hope this helps.