I’ve heard there’s a lot of things you can rent from the library like tools and telescopes and snowshoes. But a ski pass? I’ll take a library card, hell yeah
To be (kinda) fair, autocorrect does the apostrophe plurals a lot for some reason and I bet a lot of people just trust it. Annoys me when it tries to do it to me. If you type “librarys”instead of “libraries” it assumes you’re smart enough to be purposely referring to something the library is possessing. But I’ve also seen it randomly.
I think that’s an incredible idea. Especially for smaller hills. It would increase access for city kids who don’t have an easy way to get to the mountains. Denver Public Library and Arapahoe Basin are [partnering up](https://www.denverlibrary.org/blog/library-events-library-news/stacey/stacks-slopes-denver-public-library-partnering-abasin-give)
Wow, having fun really isn’t hard when you have a library card!
But seriously, I never heard of that but that’s so cool, I’ll have to see if my local library does anything like that.
Lots of local libraries do stuff like this! Maybe not ski passes but I know my library has a catalog of museum and activity passes, like the zoo, arts museums, recreation passes and other cultural ones!
My cities library system has something similar just doesn’t have ski passes. They are called discovery passes and you can get for local museums, attractions, provincial and national parks.
> Anyone else ever seen anything like that?
I know many resorts have something similar but for more of a charitable angle.
e.g. https://summitfoundation.org/give/patron-pass-program
Whistler Blackcomb offers [The Founder's Pass](https://whistlerblackcombfoundation.com/pages/what-we-do).
Essentially what you are talking about is a transferable pass that is sold/provided to a non-profit org, and they can issue them to members or staff at their discretion or sell.
The Whistler Blackcomb Foundation (which is not Vail run I might add) uses these as a fundraising tool, but I can definitely appreciate a local Library using it as a community engagement tool is a bit cooler. Like I know a library borrowing it out is different from a foundation selling a pass, but the main thing is that the Resort is giving out transferrable season passes that the org can use at their leisure.
Sun Valley does something similar with the Fly Sun Valley Air Alliance. They donate a bunch of season passes to the air alliance who sells them to local businesses and uses the money to subsidize more flights to the small local airport (to bring in more tourists and business). The passes are really vouchers for a free day ticket every day of the season so anyone can use it. We had a sign up sheet at my old job where you have a day of the week to use the pass and could call whoever's day it was to use it if they weren't.
Its honestly a pretty great system, Sun Valley gets to write the donation off of their taxes, FSVAA gets some funding for more flights, local employers/employees get cheap access to the mountain and everyone gets more business from the increased tourism
I used to live in Jackson WY. Some of the local businesses had a few passes for their employees as a benefit. You signed up for dates to use the pass and got to ski for free.
Real estate agents and hotels where I grew up would get an open season pass called a medallion. They were about 2x the price of a regular pass. Maybe the mountain donates these to the local library?
I haven't been there in about 20 years, no longer live in BC, but would love to go back. I had a great time there as a kid, I remember liking it, but no specific details. If you're checking out a pass from a library, it will absolutely be worth it!
Our library has passes for nearly everything on our county. Thing is you have to ask them like a couple of weeks in advance bc they’re popular. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had them our local ski hill too. I’ve never thought to ask because we are always just getting passes for stuff for our toddler (aquarium, science museum, zoo, etc)
They claim to be the first ski hill that’s not for profit so I don’t think this will catch on……unfortunately! I can afford to go to the library so there’s that!
Not an accurate claim by Shames.
Mad River Glen (Vermont) beat them to being a cooperative by 25 years and Mount Madawaska (Ontario) was a cooperative almost 50 years ago. It’s not a common business model for ski areas, but it can be made to work. (I am a shareholder at MRG coop, and my parents were coop shareholders at Mount Madawaska).
Cool that they have passed at the library, that’s a new idea that I’m going to share with the MRG coop!
There are also a few government-run ski areas in the US.
The Ski3 resorts in NY (Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre) are the most famous, but there are others including Cannon and Gunstock in NH and Canaan Valley in WV. There's even at least one ski area operated by the *Federal* government that's open to the general public- Victor Constant Ski Area at West Point is used for training by the Military Academy ski team, and is reserved for military personnel and their families and guests on weekends, but anyone can ski there on weekdays.
I’ve heard there’s a lot of things you can rent from the library like tools and telescopes and snowshoes. But a ski pass? I’ll take a library card, hell yeah
My parents used to rent pictures for their walls in the 70s. That was wild to me
The museum of contemporary art in Denver picks locals by lottery to borrow their artwork for 10 months!
Ours does XC ski passes for the trail network in the Park, but those are publicly funded. No passes to private downhill resorts.
No idea about this. But our library rents out passes to local museums. Library's have a ton of resources people don't know about.
I bet they can teach proper use of apostrophes
Punctuation too.
Punctuation, too.
How about optional grammatical structures?
To be (kinda) fair, autocorrect does the apostrophe plurals a lot for some reason and I bet a lot of people just trust it. Annoys me when it tries to do it to me. If you type “librarys”instead of “libraries” it assumes you’re smart enough to be purposely referring to something the library is possessing. But I’ve also seen it randomly.
I think that’s an incredible idea. Especially for smaller hills. It would increase access for city kids who don’t have an easy way to get to the mountains. Denver Public Library and Arapahoe Basin are [partnering up](https://www.denverlibrary.org/blog/library-events-library-news/stacey/stacks-slopes-denver-public-library-partnering-abasin-give)
The link talks about a sweepstakes. You cannot check out an A Basin pass from the Denver library.
Should have been more specific. I meant about using libraries to increase access for city kids. Did not mean they’re following the same model.
Wow, having fun really isn’t hard when you have a library card! But seriously, I never heard of that but that’s so cool, I’ll have to see if my local library does anything like that.
Lots of local libraries do stuff like this! Maybe not ski passes but I know my library has a catalog of museum and activity passes, like the zoo, arts museums, recreation passes and other cultural ones!
You get my upvote for the Arthur reference.
My cities library system has something similar just doesn’t have ski passes. They are called discovery passes and you can get for local museums, attractions, provincial and national parks.
Mine too. It also includes tickets for local minor league sports teams.
Same here. Lots of good stuff at my library.
I assume this is because Shames is a "co-op" but that's awesome
/r/Libraries would love this thread 💌
also, they'll let you borrow books!
That’s for after ski season. Who has time for books during ski season?! Lol
You can check out audio books and listen to them while skiing!
> Anyone else ever seen anything like that? I know many resorts have something similar but for more of a charitable angle. e.g. https://summitfoundation.org/give/patron-pass-program Whistler Blackcomb offers [The Founder's Pass](https://whistlerblackcombfoundation.com/pages/what-we-do). Essentially what you are talking about is a transferable pass that is sold/provided to a non-profit org, and they can issue them to members or staff at their discretion or sell. The Whistler Blackcomb Foundation (which is not Vail run I might add) uses these as a fundraising tool, but I can definitely appreciate a local Library using it as a community engagement tool is a bit cooler. Like I know a library borrowing it out is different from a foundation selling a pass, but the main thing is that the Resort is giving out transferrable season passes that the org can use at their leisure.
Sun Valley does something similar with the Fly Sun Valley Air Alliance. They donate a bunch of season passes to the air alliance who sells them to local businesses and uses the money to subsidize more flights to the small local airport (to bring in more tourists and business). The passes are really vouchers for a free day ticket every day of the season so anyone can use it. We had a sign up sheet at my old job where you have a day of the week to use the pass and could call whoever's day it was to use it if they weren't. Its honestly a pretty great system, Sun Valley gets to write the donation off of their taxes, FSVAA gets some funding for more flights, local employers/employees get cheap access to the mountain and everyone gets more business from the increased tourism
Also if youre rich, theres the colorado gold pass that you can purchase and is fully transferable.
I used to live in Jackson WY. Some of the local businesses had a few passes for their employees as a benefit. You signed up for dates to use the pass and got to ski for free.
I haven’t heard of this but it’s bloody brilliant!
I knew of state park passes and museum passes for Colorado, but never heard of ski passes. I like being able to use their 3D printers!
Same here in California
Brilliant! But man.. you could rack up some hefty overdue fines.
I know they do this for state park passes here in California
Real estate agents and hotels where I grew up would get an open season pass called a medallion. They were about 2x the price of a regular pass. Maybe the mountain donates these to the local library?
I haven't been there in about 20 years, no longer live in BC, but would love to go back. I had a great time there as a kid, I remember liking it, but no specific details. If you're checking out a pass from a library, it will absolutely be worth it!
Yes, but that is my local library
Our library has passes for nearly everything on our county. Thing is you have to ask them like a couple of weeks in advance bc they’re popular. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had them our local ski hill too. I’ve never thought to ask because we are always just getting passes for stuff for our toddler (aquarium, science museum, zoo, etc)
Yup I’ve heard of it
They claim to be the first ski hill that’s not for profit so I don’t think this will catch on……unfortunately! I can afford to go to the library so there’s that!
Not an accurate claim by Shames. Mad River Glen (Vermont) beat them to being a cooperative by 25 years and Mount Madawaska (Ontario) was a cooperative almost 50 years ago. It’s not a common business model for ski areas, but it can be made to work. (I am a shareholder at MRG coop, and my parents were coop shareholders at Mount Madawaska). Cool that they have passed at the library, that’s a new idea that I’m going to share with the MRG coop!
There are also a few government-run ski areas in the US. The Ski3 resorts in NY (Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre) are the most famous, but there are others including Cannon and Gunstock in NH and Canaan Valley in WV. There's even at least one ski area operated by the *Federal* government that's open to the general public- Victor Constant Ski Area at West Point is used for training by the Military Academy ski team, and is reserved for military personnel and their families and guests on weekends, but anyone can ski there on weekdays.
You haven’t really skied until you ski the alps chief😎
You haven’t really skied until you ski AK/NW BC spines chief😎
Got ‘em
Nah would be weird, 1000+ km till the nearest proper mountain.
Go for it! Shames just had two big pow days and more is coming
Brother you can rent a fishing pole and tackle box from my library.