I knew of these rumors in the past but with Boyne taking ownership at Shawnee, expansion to the west side of current trail layout could be back on the plate. They own enough land that could double the size of the current area, if they so choose.
Even in my heyday, I never skied more than a handful of days a year. That's when I was doing school trips and we had a vacation place in ME to stay on vacations. Never skied more than a couple days in a row.
But how would that help someone like me who lives 3-4 hours away from a major ski resort with no place to stay? Seems like season passes would work only if you had a place to stay nearby where you can hit the minimum number of days skiing to break even covering the cost of lodging.
Can't deny that living in a ski town or the sport itself have become mostly for the wealthy. I used to pay in the low $40s to ski for the day at Sunday River when I last skied there in the mid 1990s. Yup, now it's $120 for the same ticket.