Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area

Hopefully El Nino is the new La Nina! Welcome to Junuary at the Ridge and a shout out to all the grads on the Peninsula this month.

Hope you were able to make it to the Sequim Irrigation Festival Parade today. We sent some of the Ridge Crew to spread some Ridge stoke for our first Parade ever!

Hopefully by being in the Irrigation festival we will please the snow irrigation gods of winter and avoid a repeat of last winter! Think snow, enjoy the summer.

A beautiful day at the Ridge today!

Today is the last chance to save 25% on your 26/27 season pass. If you purchased a 25/26 season pass you are eligible for 25% discount on next years pass. Just enter 25/26rebate in the coupon area at checkout.

This offer is only for 25/26 season pass holders only. Season passes will remain open for sale all summer. Any price increases for the 26/27 season will be announced this September.

Friday April 3rd is the day to get your Indy Pass if your not already on the waitlist. This may be the only day to get it, if your not already a pass holder

Indy Pass Community, I have three important updates.

1. New Resorts

We are announcing another 10 resorts this morning, including 5 in the Midwest. That means we have now added 26 new options to the 26/27 pass. This brings the current total options to 286, spanning 36 states and provinces, 14 countries, and 4 continents. I can promise you that we are nowhere near done adding resorts for next season. Doug and I will be calling, Zooming, driving, and flying to prospective areas all summer long. I am extremely excited about what is coming next for Indy. You can expect a major expansion announcement in the fall.

2. Heli Skiing + Lodging

Skiing is expensive, but we are working hard to open up more incredible opportunities and discounts with your Indy Pass. In addition to the 3 cat skiing partners already on the pass, we have finally secured our first partnership with a helicopter operation, North Cascade Heli. Lodging is also expensive and we will continue to expand and supercharge our lodging discount program over the summer and into next season. I believe we will get to the point where your Indy Pass discounts alone will support the economics of purchasing a pass. We will be relentless in driving value to the pass with these types of opportunities that will make skiing and riding more affordable.

3. Waitlist and Public Sale

While we had originally planned to work our way through renewals and the waitlist pass sale over the last week of February, it actually took us much longer to get through that process than we thought. We implemented a major technology and process change in rolling out the subscription functionality. This change needed to happen, and it has set up the Indy Pass for long-term success and sustainability. The waitlist also grew at a remarkable rate during our renewal sale period. The plan to start our public sale on March 3rd ended up being a pipe dream, and our Colorado and New Hampshire customer service teams have been treading water since. Remember, we are a small team that does not outsource your emails and phone calls to overseas call centers or robots. I did not feel that we could put the pass on sale to the public while we were struggling to respond to our current passholders and waitlisters within a best-in-class timeframe.

Thanks to the entire team working around the clock over the past month, we are back in a good place. We still have a large number of people on the waitlist who have not had an opportunity to purchase yet, and we will begin contacting them today. Anyone on the waitlist will have until Friday at 11AM Eastern time to complete their purchase. At noon Eastern, any remaining passes will go on sale to the general public until sold out. Demand for the Indy Pass has been unprecedented and the public sale will be over in hours, not days.

We all have a role to play in keeping skiing and riding independent.

Erik Mogensen
Managing Director

If you have not already, you can sign up for the waitlist here: https://estore.indyskipass.com/

https://www.indyskipass.com/this-is-indy/news/indy-announces-ten-additional-new-resorts-with-five-in-the-midwest-2627-public-pass-sale-begins