Loam Pass Launches a New MTB Season Pass
PRESS RELEASE: Loam Pass
The Loam Pass is a season pass to the most iconic mountain bike destinations around North America. With over 30 destinations, the Loam Pass unlocks access to premium resorts, epic bike parks, and shuttle services across the country. Similar to buying a multi-resort ski pass, Loam Pass is the ultimate multi-destination bike pass.
When you purchase a Loam Pass, you receive 2 days of riding at each destination along with exclusive discounts and endless fun.
30+ destinations at your fingertips
The Loam Pass national network gives you access to the best mountain biking in North America. New destinations are being added weekly to give pass holders even more access to the best destinations across the nation. See the full list of destinations here.
 | We’re excited to bring new riders to the southeast region with Loam Pass. As a park owner, we see a lot of value in making it easy for riders to travel to our park, and Loam Pass gives them the chance to experience new places like ours. We’re stoked to be a part of it! |
| Our goal with Loam Pass is to provide access to all of the places you'd pay to bike. With so many iconic biking locations, from Bend to Bentonville to Kingdom Trails, we wanted to include them all in one pass. In the past, I've purchased hundreds of day passes and thought, 'Why not have an affordable pass for all these destinations, just like the ski industry?' Welcome to LOAM PASS! |
2024 pass starting at $249
The 2024 Loam Pass is available now, starting at $249 at www.loampass.com. Prices will go up as more destinations are added, lock in your early season pricing to get access to our growing list of destinations.
For more information about Loam Pass, visit: www.loampass.com
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I would love to hear this, as I hear people moan about the passes all the time, but very few people can articulate anything negative besides, "it's so busy now!" LOL
the two big passes have saved the entire industry, and I would tell you how if you want to have a good faith conversation, and not just carping about lift lines....
if you want to shit on the passes for something, its that their true intention is to insulate the resorts from weather related income fluctuation. they are putting the risk on you, instead of themselves. Fair enough.
also, Vail has daily passes you can pre-purchase a few days ahead of time for less than half the walk up rate. that price, adjusted for inflation is LESS than it was in 2008 when the pass was begun.
Skiing infrastructure is wildly better because the resorts have a stable income without yearly fluctations, more people can afford to ski that want to ski, and the entire industry is healthier for it. You and others seem to just be butt hurt because shit is busy. which is moronic.....You want it to be empty, all the businesses in town to go out of business, just to not wait 5 min in a lift line? pound sand bud....
These companies don't build roads, parking, or transportation! the municipalities do that! Vail, Breck, etc aren't company towns at the end of the day. Vail/Alterra have to work with local government on those, and the local governemtn is influenced by the locals more than a single company. Blame the NIMBY residents!
They do build new lifts! Vail as a company put in like 12 ALL NEW lifts and upgraded another 6 or so company wide for something close to 600million in capital investments last year alone! what more do you want from a company that does a bit over 2 billion a year gross revenue? if you say that's not enough, you fully do not understand business on even the most rudimentary level.
So, people have beef with Ikon/epic/vail, etc because these companies treat the natural environment and mountain experience as strictly a commodity. As a result, they definitely don’t give a shit about people who are not their target market. They don’t care about the actual ski experience any more than how it affects their bottom line. The result is we have a large number of what once were fun, mountain communities, degraded into homogeneous, corporatized, shilled out versions of alpine amusement parks.
It’s bad for skiing. Skiing has a bleak future because people who might make up the core of ski culture, like young families, serious athletes, adventurous creative types, cannot afford it.
Rant over. You’re welcome.
And the money goes to the trail organization and there are other perks as well!
vmba.org/memberbenefits-2-2
My brother did just seriously injure himself there though so it may be a while before I'm back :/
I’m not gonna hate, but I’d rather give my cash/card to the guys at the lift ticket counter
It’s not the same. If you are e-biking up a service road in a bike park then fine, you win. You can say you’re more green than me.
But you are lapping trails that aren’t part of a private park and don’t get the same amount of trail work. Double the usage equals double the wear and tear. How do you offset that?
E-bikes changed the game for those with open minds, because now you can spend all of your time in your saddle riding your bike, yet still access DH trails that you wouldn't have time to climb to on a normal bike.
Then again, most shuttle riders I know never consider riding up to any of these trails anyway... and that is why it is laughable that they accuse ebikers of being lazy.
As for the trail wear and tear argument... I've seen a lot of world class trails get wrecked by the hoards of riders that shuttles brought up to them. So ya.
To clarify, if you are shuttling with a proper DH bike to ride proper DH trails that is completely fine by me. But that is probably 5% of shuttling these days.
I’m still standing by if trails get more use they require more work. That should be the crux. That and risk of losing access where applicable. Those are my sticking points for now.
I've yet to read a story on PB where mtb access was lost because of emtb's. I could be wrong.
I don't feel bad about getting extra laps on DH only trails that were designed for this purpose. They were expressly built for this.
I’ve lived in other places where trail user conflict was quite tense. Hikers really had it out for mtbs and a horse is a horse or course. I’m happy now that I don’t encounter much user conflict, but I’m sure those regions still do and wonder how adding e-bikes furthered the tension.
No matter what I think, there wil be no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.
First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil.
:a soil consisting of a friable mixture of varying proportions of clay, silt, and sand
But what they mean is "duff"
:the partly decayed organic matter on the forest floor
This pass has none of these things. Its expensive compared to mtb lift tickets, only gives you two days, and the destinations are so widely spaced out I can't imagine hitting more than like 2 or 3 of the destinations without taking lots of road trips
actually, there aren't even mountains there, what was i thinking? Nevermind.