Mount Bachelor
Bend, OR 97709
Phone: (800) 829-2442
05/21/2008 Posted 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
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