Planning to watch the Super Bowl or go skiing or snowboarding?
With both the New York Giants and New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, there should be fewer people at ski resorts on Super Sunday. Still if you want to do both, there’s a solution.
Okemo in Vermont is offering a two-day lift pass for Friday and Saturday for $99. A great deal considering the regular price for those tickets is $168! The two-day ticket has to be purchased 48 in advance online.
Okemo’s also got two other Super Bowl offers: A ticket good Sunday, Feb. 5, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for $64 for Adults, $54 for Young Adults and Seniors, and $40 for Juniors. Skiers and riders can visit any ticket window to take advantage of this deal.
The other could be a big winner if it’s a low scoring game.
Here’s how Okemo explains it:
“On Monday, Feb. 6, the price of a full-day lift ticket will be charged at $1 per point, based on the total combined points scored during Sunday’s Big Game. If the final score of the game is Patriots 24 and Giants 21, the price of a lift ticket on Monday will be $45. How low could it go? A scoreless game would mean free lift tickets; however, the lowest combined score in Super Bowl history was 21 points in 1973. In case of a high-score game, Okemo is capping the Feb. 6 lift ticket price at $59.”
I expect other ski areas will be rolling out Super Bowl specials because there are two “local” teams in the big game this year. Even non-football fans are drawn into Super Bowl parties.
Stay tuned.
CONDITION UPDATE
Some parts of Connecticut got up to a foot of beautiful, dry, fluffy powder on Saturday. By Monday, most of it was gone thanks to rain and snow-eating fog.
Yet ski areas, including those in Connecticut are still in business. In fact both Ski Sundown and Mount Southington have 100 percent of their trails open.
Up north most Vermont areas are well past the mark of having more than half their trails open. Big snowmaking mountains like Mount Snow, Stratton, Bromley and Okemo lead the pack in southern Vermont. Farther north, Sugarbush has 105 of 111 trails open; Stowe 92 of 116 and Jay 62 of 76 runs.
All natural snow Mad River Glen is struggling with just 17 of 45 trails open. Magic Mountain that has a poor snowmaking system is closed until Friday.
Many areas in New Hampshire and Maine have nearly 75 percent of their terrain open.
Cheap lift tickets
One of the better deals this week is happening at the Belleayre Ski Center in the New York Catskills. Until Friday, all tickets are just $20 as part of its Winter Fest Week. For the rest of the winter the area will be offering $25 lift tickets on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Belleayre is a great mountain to ski or ride. It has a 1,400 and 47 trails, more than half rated intermediate. It’s more like a long ridge, rather than a tall mountain with its longest trail more than 2 miles. The area is located less than three hours from lower Fairfield County. It’s worth visiting.
