Mt. Bachelor

Mt. Bachelor, Worst skier experience of all resorts I have been to in the last 20 years. Lift status; Skyliner problems last year and broken since January this season, Summit broken and running at half speed, Pine Martin having problems this week, Sunrise beginner lift open, Cloud Chaser closed, Outback closed, Northwest closed, Red chair closed. All other smaller lifts closed.
The Mountain is in a winter storm pattern, with high temps in the mid twenties and new powder daily. These excellent condition, with plenty of base to run any chair, are driving huge lines, limited grooming and so much negativity on the chair. It is barely worth the trip up if your a pass holder, and definitely not worth paying for gas and a ticket. A great opportunity to put on an epic spring season, but I guess they already have all the money, and could care less about the customers.
Powdr Corp puts nothing back into Bachelor. lifts are old, poorly maintained, in need of replacement and repair. Yet they spend millions building huge jumps, half pipe and countless other features which cost a fortune to maintain. Perhaps they should spend some of this on lift maintenance and replacement.

Unacceptable excuses from management.
-Lines are only on the weekend and will be gone tomorrow (Monday)
---Lies, Last Monday, same conditions with huge lines. Summit did not open till noon, and runs so slow, the lines were worse. Check the Web cam tomorrow (5/8/22) to see how they handle it. They usually tilt the camera's so you cannot see the lines, both Summit and Pine. Deception at its best.

-We do not have staffing
--You had enough people to run most of the chairs just a week ago. It is managements job to staff, and they were letting people go. If Summit does not run because of breakage, or weather, move the crew to one of the other chairs.

They promote the spring pass, yet do nothing to fulfill the "fun" they promote. They close the parking and all services at Sunrise base, one of the two lifts open, so all the customers can hike the parking lot at West Village. They do not even open the bathrooms at the Sunrise base lodge, so you cannot even take a "Mt Bachelor" in the rest room. Two Jokes, that one, and the other is Mt. Bachelor. It is not a laughing matter, but Ha Ha.

Welcome to the summit season at Mt Broken. Beautiful day with light winds, 3 inches of new and a huge crowd. Only open lift up the mountain is Pine Martin, with a huge line which never went away for hours. With a very full parking lot, they only run Pine Martin lift and do not let you park at Sunrise which would help the line. NO CONCERN FOR THE CUSTOMER, ONLY WANT TO SAVE THE COST OF OPENING THE BATHROOMS AND PARKING AT SUNRISE FOR A DAY. They advertise Red will run depending on demand, and what would be wrong with Cloud or Outback, or Northwest to give the crowd a decent ski experience for the day?? Summit, the only lift to the top did not open for hours. No Wind to blame it on, had daylight for at least five hours for avalanche control, yet no go. They must figure it does not matter because it is broken and only runs at half speed anyway. They spend millions on building snow features which get very little use , but cannot even maintain or fix the lifts that break. What a JOKE. Lucky they are the only game in town or they would have no customers. Seems like they owe the passholders; for no Skyliner for most of the year, a broken Summit for most of the year, half of Cloud Chaser closed for the month of April, no additional grooming on pine while it is the only way up the mountain, and no control for out of control fools. They have all your pass money, and could care less.

Heading up to Mt. Bachelor in the AM. Lift status showed no problems. Report was 6 inches new with cold temps. Arrived to find most of the major chairs closed for wind. The wind was high all night and still blowing, so why did the early morning show all chairs except Summit as expected? The 6 inches way a lie! Might of had 2" which drifted into the hollows as maybe 4 to be generous. Got in line at sunrise. Just as we went thru the turnstiles, it was announced to the big crowd that Cloud Chaser was open, and website confirmed it. Went to Cloud and waited for 50 minutes for it to open. This is unacceptable customer service. This place is a joke. They get a couple inches and cannot get the chairs open on time! WOW, thought is was a ski area. By noon, the wind was no longer an issue however the North West chair was running real slow. The wind never blew on the 20 minute ride up. It appears there is no management at all. Do not waste your money at this place.

Funny how you can groom the board park to look like a carpet tree to tree, but can't groom the runs for the skiers! I think I've seen Tippy toe groomed twice in the last two years! Also, 5 to 15 workers with rakes etc. in the park to make every feature just right but you can't get the chairs de-iced after 2 days! It will be interesting tomorrow on a forecasted blue bird sunny day to see if Bachelor can pull it off. A 'big' mountain would have all the lifts cleaned off and running by 9:00 am and ready for their costumers. It is now 24 hours without any additional weather causing icing, and will be about 40 hours at opening time tomorrow(plenty of time to de-ice). As the first nice day after cold new snow there will be a big crowd. Will the Cloud, Outback, Northwest West and Summit chairs be ready or will they be closed like today? My money is with none of those lower lifts open until late in the day and summit not at all, Big lines, excuses about the ice storm 3 days ago and a very poor skier experience! If your planning a nice vacation, go to a real big mountain ski resort.

Parked at the Skyliner lift and it was not snowing. Chair had been open a half hour and running before opening. Five employees in blue jackets working at the lift. One guy pounding the Ice and snow off the chair seats by himself and could not clean the seats before customers sat down on the inch thick chunks of snow and ice. One guy standing and watching. Three more drinking coffee and talking to themselves out by the turnstile. No line to deal with. I asked the guy standing there where his broom was? Gave me a smart ass answer like "Its just snow". It is pretty simple. Get the chair operational with clean seats, ready for the customers. No management at this mountain. It was the same story for many days before at the same lift. This time I went over to guest services in West Village and asked for a complaint form. They do not have any. Guy asked me what MY problem was. I told him, and he says sorry about that. Was just lip service. Says I can go on line, so here it is. Your paying employees to do nothing. Fire your lift manager and hire one who can supervise an employee.

Mt Bachelor is a beautiful ski area with awesome views of the Three Sisters mountains, but alas the the daily running of this resort is very disappointing! Please do not take your family and kids to this area it is not safe! It's a flat mountain at the base and mostly boarders feel the need to go warp speed to make the lift even at your expense almost knocking you over (one brushed my shoulder coming from behind the other day)! There is not enough staff for weekends to serve food (lines are huge), the bathrooms are dirty with no Kleenex (really!), no water glasses in the lodge, the snowboarders are out of control, drinking beer in line, on the chair, in the parking lot, drunk everywhere, doing jumps on the get back trails in high traffic, peeing in the parking lot, yellow snow everywhere gross! Oh and don't get me started on the big dogs pooping everywhere with owners that don't pick up after them! They can't keep the mountain open on powder days( hello it's a ski resort)! Ski patrol not addressing safety issues with snowboards jumping over Summit crossover trail (from Skyliner lift) onto the run above the boarding park, almost got taken out here several times! I have a friend who got taken out last week! Management put up a SMALL fence which they just go around or use as an obstacle to jump over! What a joke! I've complained at least 4 or 5 times, falls on deaf ears! If you go to Mt. Bachelor better be looking over your shoulder! Skier experience sadly to say is diminishing on Mt. Bachelor:-(