OK, for sake of argum, er, discussion let's say the fast pass area has an uphill capacity of 27,000 (approximately what Bachelor has) over 12 lifts. The average number of skiers per day over the whole season of 09-10 was 2,428 with the high 20 days averaging 5,900. That was quite a few years ago so lets use the average 20 days from 05-06 at 7,400. Heck, let's call it 8,000 (attendance numbers from Wikipedia, your source for everything ski related
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So, 8,000 people on a pretty busy day and we'll use 15% as the number who purchase the Fast Tracks. 9 of the 12 lifts will use Fast Tracks. Granted, those are the main lifts with only the beginner lifts not on Fast Tracks. In my mind, you will NEVER have all 8,000 people on the hill at once. They will be in the lodge for breakfast or lunch. The bar for cocktails and hot chocolate. Sitting on the decks on nice days. Ski morning, leave at noon or ski noon to close. Plus you will have several hundred people just lapping the beginner areas throughout the day. So, as long as we're postulating here, let's say 5,000 on the hill at any given time.
1,200 people have Fast Tracks. Not all of those folks are on the hill at the same time either. Assuming (I know, I know!) 63% of the 8,000 are on the hill at any given time, we'll use 63% for the Fast Track users. So that's 756 people. We know they won't spread evenly across the hill and at times not all 9 FT lifts will be running. But it's a nice day and I'm pulling numbers out of thin air anyway, so...
If they were spread evenly, that's 84 FT riders per lift. You'll have at least half or more on the mountain at any given time so that's 42. On a six pack that's 7 chairs. I'm guessing they'll be loading as singles with <6 groups too.
Anyway, I'm not sure this will be as big a hit as we think it might be. Without knowing the actual FT pass numbers per day this is all just conjecture. Will it be a percentage of expected attendance or just a hard number? So, food for thought, plus I'm at home watching my back yard get re-done. YMMV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. If you read this far, thank you. If not, you'll never miss what you know!