All for One Season Pass mail shot

All for One Season Pass mail shot

Another indicator that fall is upon us is taking place at Killington today. Casey Crompton's Santa Fe Golf Tournament has occupied both the Killington and Green Mountain National golf courses. The hook on Casey's tournament is, of course, that you fly between courses on a helicopter. Unfortunately, being at the cusp of the season, the weather always seems weird. Today will be no exception with rain forecasted for Killington this afternoon.

Speaking of seasonal change, I had a conversation with one of my sources at Killington about a variety of subjects. My primary concern was to determine if Killington was making any software changes to their snow report. Last season, I wrote some software for the blog to automatically include Killington's snow report, and I wanted to find out if I needed to make any changes to it before the ski season as time will be at a premium the next couple of weeks with Fall Foliage season. We seem to be okay there, although when the snow report will first appear is of course still an open question.

The subject of Killington seasons passes also came up. If you are on ASC's (the parent company of Killington) mailing list, you have been inundated with mail shots about the "All for One" season passes. Not quite as many as AOL in the days of it's CD mailings, but we are getting a noticeable amount of them at the inn. Turns out there is some concern, within Killington's management, that Killington skiers will miss out on seasons passes. Under the (caution, inside joke) "Les is more theory", it turns out ASC is planning to limit passes for New England this year. They estimate about 8000 previous pass holders may miss out due to the self imposed limitations.

Now, being in marketing for a number of years, I certainly can question why the limit, especially since pricing for passes has gone DOWN the last few years(the least expensive pass, the Bronze, is only $395); but all things being equal, that appears to be ASC's plan. Plus, the have also announced that the passes are on sale only until October 10th, assuming they do not sell out before then. Bottom line to my friends out there... if you have not gotten your season pass for the upcoming ski season yet...get onto Killington's season pass website and do it now!