Tomorrow my local mountain opens, and there is a big "contest" to see who gets the first chair of the season. Our mountain opens at 9 a.m., and some people are in line at 3:30 in the morning. Does this happen at anyone else's resort?
I got first chair of the season at my hill once (besides the skipo) just cause the hill was opening at 4pm so I just went after school and there was barely anyone there. waited 15 or so minutes in line for the hill to get cleared by patrol.
Home mountain offered a free 2011 season pass to the first lift riders (2 person lift) at the start of the 2010 season. Camped out/ was in line at 2:30 am, ppl started coming at 5am. We won only to find out that the economic hardship of my mountain gave us a 50$ guft card at the end of the season instead. Lets just say we were quite angry with the worker who had to tell us and left between 20-50 messages throughout the offseason about it