Trying to make skiing accessible can't come from season pass prices. No one is buying a season pass when they haven't tried the sport. Raising day ticket prices and shutting off pass sales in December is certainly a barrier to getting people on snow past day 1.
@sierra_time I'll write it. I might have a hard time not coming to the final open question to readers of why are contests dying in every aspect of skiing. And why does it always take a single big name athlete to take a risk with their own sponsors/budgets to execute a vision that has appeal