With Ikon and Epic season passes costing around $1,000, and some walkup day passes hitting $300, a $6,000 Lifetime Pass sounds like a great deal.

That’s what’s being offered by Loup Loup Ski Bowl, a small and fiercely independent ski destination in Okanagan, in central Washington State about 125 miles northeast of Seattle.  It’s an innovative effort to create a cash flow to survive changing times and the changing temperatures and snowfall levels they bring.

Currently, the area which locals call simply “The Loup”, sells a season pass for $569 for adults 20-64, $450 for seniors 65-69, and $190 for a 70+ Super Senior.  

Clearly, the younger you are, the better a deal it is, since 30 or 40 years of skiing for $6,000 is a better deal than ten. That’s the current break-even point for the lifetime pass, less if pass prices go up for inflation.

Loup Loup also is not hiding the fact that this $6,000 lifetime pass deal will help it survive. This is what you’ll see on the destination website:

https://skitheloup.org/plan-your-visit/passes-tickets/

Win #1 –  By purchasing a Lifetime Pass now, you are entitled to skiing at the Loup for the rest of your life and the life of the Loup.

Win #2  – By purchasing a Lifetime Pass now you help ensure that there is a Loup Loup Ski Bowl for you, your family, and the community to enjoy long into the future. The longer the Loup can thrive and survive the more benefit you get from your Lifetime Pass.

Win #3  – By purchasing a Lifetime Pass for you or a loved one you can inflation proof your or their skiing…for life! Think about it, in the 60’s a brand new car was $3,000 …now the average price is nearly $50,000! Skiing unfortunately has suffered the same effects of inflation and it’s very likely to continue. With your purchase, you can side step inflation and help save a small community ski hill at the same time.

And if that still doesn’t tip the scales…forecasters are already predicting a greater than 70% chance of a La Nina cycle by mid summer…so with a little luck and a whole lotta snow dances…this low snow year will just be a distant memory!

Loup Loup is offering only a limited number of passes at this price, so don’t delay if you want one.

Let’s hope The Loup survives.  Small, independent areas like this are crucial to the future of the ski/snowboard industry. This is where we and the kids and the grandkids learn to ski, before we move on to larger areas like those on the Ikon, Epic and Mountain Collective passes.

Let’s also keep watch to see if this idea spreads to other small, independent areas like Loup Loup Ski Bowl.

See you on the slopes!

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Evelyn Kanter

Evelyn Kanter is a NYC-based travel and environmental writer and a senior skier who would rather ride a chairlift, river raft or zipline than the subway, and has done so in the more than 100 countries she’s visited, skiing in many of them. In what she calls a “previous life”, she was a TV and radio news reporter for ABC News and CBS News, now a regular contributor to major publications, including airline inflights and AAA magazines, and has written or contributed to more than a dozen travel guidebooks.Her latest are “100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die”, Fodor’s Essential Germany and Fodor’s New York City. Evelyn's website is www.ecoxplorer.com

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