[quote=captcha][quote=AN]Snowboarding/skiing is not a cheap sport…[/quote]
Unless you live 30 minutes from a resort :)[/quote]
hijack: I plan on living in town in South Tahoe on the free bus line to Heavenly. A season pass purchased the previous summer is $359. Of course, you take your chances with an early purchase that it will be a bad season. But with the lift-ticket prices of today, $359 = only 4 days of skiing. It would have to be a REALLY bad year not to be able to get in at least 4 full days of skiing! A multi-resort season pass issued by Vail Resorts (purchased the previous summer) is about $599. This will get you unlimited lift privileges at Heavenly, Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Northstar at Tahoe. Colorado very rarely has bad ski seasons and the Vail Resort pass is a GREAT deal if you can afford to travel! That’s enough resorts for anyone to ski in any season :=]
The biggest expenses of skiing in order of amount are: lodging, per-diem food (if eating at restaurants on the mtn or otherwise), lift tix, convenient parking and locker rental midway (if packing lunch). $8-$10 day lockers can be rented by the season for about $100 (or about $150 for ski-length lockers).
A “local” residing at South Tahoe pays $359 season for a season lift pass plus locker rental of their choice :=)
There are quite a few 40-55 year-old SFR’s there, situated on 6K to 14K lots right in town that are currently listed for $175K to $350K.
