Sorry, I wasn't even looking at the season passes. Was looking at per-day and three-day. Per day of $19 doesn't seem bad. Cheapest summer lift around here is $25 and the B.C. resorts are almost all $39 (which, at today's exchange rate isn't just Monopoly money any more). One-day at Whistler is over $50.

Seattle has a (albeit not as extensive) place like Ray's that's free - - Colonnade Park is under a network of freeway overpasses so stays pretty much weather-free year-'round.


That or something like it is high on my list. Bobcat with track set and a six-way blade, Clark Airborne or a Toro Dingo with a six-way. And an old double-drum yarder. And a Kubota with a bush hog. And a . . . .