Two ways to look at the introduction of the IKON Pass as a Steamboat local: Your season pass is $250 cheaper and now you have access to a ton of other mountains or alternatively, this will open up the floodgates and turn the mountain into a zoo (offsetting the cheapness and multi-mountain perks).  Has anyone seen a difference in their home mountain since the Epic Pass came out? What do IKON mountains have to expect?

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