LOSING THE “ALTA SEASON PASS” AND GAINING A SCAR

It was a tragic day of skiing – not only did I get a black eye and a deep gash in my upper lip (thus disfiguring the only unscarred place on my whole person), we lost the 10-ride pass that we’ve used for nearly a decade. The lifties almost never punched the card, so my parents skied at Alta for years without buying lift tickets. The whole family could even ski all day on it – poaching Alta was a family Christmas tradition. The pass is now obsolete – and probably a collector’s item, as no one in the ticket office had ever seen one – so we surrendered it in exchange for paltry $20 credit. Gone are the days of the 10-ride pass, otherwise known as the Unofficial Alta Season Pass.