Snow Summit, Bear Mountain offer dual ticket
The Snow Summit ski resort’s acquisition of rival Bear Mountain means changes for travelers to Big Bear Lake this season. The biggest one is a new lift ticket policy.
Skiers and snowboarders buy one lift ticket that provides access to both resorts, which are a couple of miles apart; there are free shuttles. The new policy applies to the entire 2002-2003 season except holiday periods and Saturdays in January and February, when dual tickets will be limited to avoid crowding.
Regular-season daylong lift tickets will be $14 for children 7 to 12, $35 for ages 13 to 19 and $43 for ages 20 and up. (Holiday period rates are higher.) Prices are up $1 to $4 from last season, depending on the ticket.
Bear Mountain has reconfigured its slopes, shops and dining to be more youth-oriented. With additions in jumps and rails, the emphasis is on freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Snow Summit, meanwhile, is being marketed as a family resort emphasizing traditional downhill skiing and boarding. The resorts, now known as the Big Bear Mountain Resorts (
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