Aspen Vs. Steamboat

 just a quick compare and contrast (and yes the price of everything has gone up crazy)

                                       Aspen                                                    SteamBoat             

lift ticket                            $2850( Aspen only)                            $1k (ikon ulimited multi mountain)

Burger fries beer                $32 (white house)                                $ 19 (back door tavern)

Home                                  $3.7k a foot in town new construction  $1k a foot in town new construction

                                           aspen (good bit underground                      boat new construction home 

I have tried to compare apples to apples.  I am sure some folks will say the decor at white house is much nicer than back door (and they are not wrong), or the Aspen home finishes are much nicer (3.7x nicer---unlikely, maybe 30% nicer but of course steamboat has a bigger garage and is all above grade, and the lot in Steamboat is about 85% bigger).

The big question---is Aspen 3 times better than Steamboat?  

The smaller question is with Ikon and Epic passes covering pretty much every season pass you could want for less than 1k how the heck is Aspen Ski Co getting away with $2.8 times that.  I will say that Ski Co includes an Ikon base pass with the $2.85 k purchase price, but ......well it reminds of that old Aspen marketing slogan---exclusive by design.