05/21/08

bachelor

by smileybet

I love this mountain! i learned to ski and snowboard hear starting at the age of 4. i remember everything to from hot chocolate in the old econ lodge to every kids favorite run "dilly dally alley". I'm originally from Corvallis but i moved out here when i graduated from high school 5 years ago. the first couple of year i lived here i bought my season pass and every think was ok. then powder corp started to raise the prices more then i could afford. rather then boycott the mountain i went to work for them. I'm a ski instructor. do you know why customer service is bad? i think i know most of the employees can't make rent with there wage so they have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. in the ski school the Dollars per hour aren't bad it's the amount of hours you can get in a week thats bad. half the time you show up at 8:00 am and stand around until 10:30 while not enough kids show up and you get payed for 15 min. of work at minimum wage. thats enough to make anyone a little bitter. as you might guess this creates a high turn over rate for the employees which means lack of trained employees. did any body read the bend living from 2 months ago? powder corp has put $7.7 million in to the mountain in the last seven years and they have sold about 10.3 million in mt. bachelors accents. under the Healys they where planing on spending $4 million a year or $28 over the last 7 years with lower ticket prices. thats the kind of money it take to run a world class resort. to keep employees happy, and to keep the mountain running well. don't get me wrong though this mountain has lots of good terrain for many different levels. it has good snow for a good chunk of the year. it have good trees off of the northwest chair and off the back side. crowds aren't to bad except for holidays on Pinemartin. and the food is pretty good at scapolo's at the pinemartin lodge. i know that this can be a great mountain again if powder corp stops chasing locals away so for know it 3 stars.

• Pros: the mountain and the locals
• Cons: powder corp. and gapers

02/12/08

Former Bachelor Rider

by GreenGator94

I'm not sure where these other reviewers have been (California?), and maybe they're lucky enough to ride Mt. B midweek, but the lines have gotten insanely long since I started riding Mt. Bachelor 14 years ago. Maybe it's because Powder Corp. doesn't keep the lifts maintained and they keep breaking down? I'm also not sure why Powder Corp. keeps jacking the lift ticket prices up, yet doesn't make any improvements. And now you have to pay an extra ten bucks for a ticket just because you happen to have an extra day off (holiday price)? I miss Mt. B, but eff Powder Corp. They ruined it for me. I'll drive 2-1/2 hours less time and pay $500 less for a season pass from now on, because they don't deserve my money.

• Pros: good snow
• Cons: Powder Corp. "manages" it.

05/27/06

My Home.

by themtbachelorhobo

Mt. Bachelor is a great mountain with great terrain. its very snowboard friendly, as it has 4 terrain parks, a superpipe, and more tree runs than i can count. sadly, this ahve slowly gone downhill since powder corp. bought Mt. Bachelor. the prices of food there are outrageous. lift ticket prices are still reasonable, they are higher then they used to be before powder corp, but theyre still cheap. The snow quality is the best of any western resort, despite popular opinion, its dry and fluffy. the summit lift is open more often than people say, but is closed about 35% of the time. Crowds are non-existent on weekdays, and on weekends theyre fine, thanks to all the quad express lifts.

Overall, Mt. Bachelor is a great mountain that Powder Corp. cant even destroy.

• Pros: TREE RUNS!!!, Little/no crowds, good snow
• Cons: Powder Corp.