Rates & passes
Every price here is published. None of them says which season.
The figures on this page are reproduced exactly as Salmo Ski Hill publishes them. What the hill does not publish anywhere is the winter they belong to — so this concept says that plainly on every row instead of quietly implying they are current.
These prices are for the
That box is where a season label belongs, and it is empty because the hill’s site does not carry one — not on the day tickets, not on the passes, and not on the early-bird deadline. Filling this one field is the change this whole concept is arguing for.
Season passes
Four published figures, reproduced exactly. The hill states a family maximum at two levels — a regular rate and a discount rate — but does not publish the conditions that separate them, so this page does not explain them either.
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| Season pass | Published priceas printed by the hill | Season it coversas printed by the hill |
|---|---|---|
| Regular adult | $440.00 | Not stated |
| Seniors 70+ · 6 and under | $25.00 | Not stated |
| Family maximum — regular | $975.00 | Not stated |
| Family maximum — discount | $880.00 | Not stated |
The early-bird deadline The hill’s site says early-bird pricing runs to October 31st, and that passes increase to full price November 1st. Both dates are printed without a year, so a reader cannot tell whether the deadline is upcoming or long past.
Why that matters most here Early-bird pricing is a decision with a clock on it. A deadline with no year is the one piece of copy on a ski hill’s site that stops working the moment the season turns over — and nobody notices, because it still reads as though it is true.
Day tickets
Reproduced exactly as published. The hill does not say whether a night-ski ticket is priced differently.
| Day ticket | Price | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | $40.00 | Not stated |
| Student · Senior 60+ | $31.00 | Not stated |
| Child 7–12 | $23.00 | Not stated |
| Seniors 70 and over | Free | Not stated |
| Under 6 | Free | Not stated |
What is missing from all of it
Four absences, each confirmed by reading the hill’s own pages.
| Detail | On the site |
|---|---|
| Which season the day-ticket prices cover | Not stated |
| Which season the season-pass prices cover | Not stated |
| The year on the October 31st early-bird cutoff | Not stated |
| The year on “passes increase to full price November 1st” | Not stated |
None of these is a design problem. Each is one short string of text that nobody has had a reason to add, because the person maintaining the site already knows the answer.
On the prices themselves
The hill’s own line is that it “proudly maintains low ticket prices to keep the cost of skiing attainable”. That is the point of the whole exercise, and it is why the missing season label is worth fixing: a price this good deserves to be legibly current.
The fix
One field, edited once a year
The reason a season label goes stale is that it usually has to be retyped in a dozen places. Store it once and print it everywhere, and the annual update becomes a single edit that nobody can half-finish.
Step one
Set the season once
A single stored value — the season, the early-bird cutoff and the date prices were last reviewed — filled in by whoever sets the prices, at the moment they set them.
- Season
- set by the hill
- Early bird ends
- October 31st, plus the year
- Prices reviewed
- set by the hill
Step two
Print it everywhere
That one value then stamps every place a price appears, so there is no such thing as a page that got missed in the autumn update.
- The rates page heading
- Every price table on the site
- The early-bird banner and its deadline
- The page title in a search result
- A printed price list at the ticket window
- The footer, so it is never more than one scroll away
Kids and seniors
The cheapest way onto this hill
Children under six and skiers seventy and over ski free on a day ticket, and a whole season costs either of them $25. A child of seven to twelve pays $23 for the day. These are the numbers that turn a hill into a habit, and they are buried on the current site.
Everything in the table is reproduced exactly as published. As with every other price here, the hill does not say which season it applies to.
Placeholder photo | Ticket or pass | Price |
|---|---|
| Under 6 — day ticket | Free |
| Seniors 70 and over — day ticket | Free |
| Child 7–12 — day ticket | $23.00 |
| Student · Senior 60+ — day ticket | $31.00 |
| 6 and under — season pass | $25.00 |
| Seniors 70 and over — season pass | $25.00 |
The hill publishes no rental, lesson, group or multi-day prices, so this concept contains none. Those tables would be added only from figures the hill supplies.
Before you pay
Buying a pass, today
The hill does not publish a purchase process, so this concept does not describe one. What it can do is list the three things worth settling on the phone first.
- 01
Confirm the season
Ask which winter the published prices belong to. It is the one question the site currently cannot answer for you.
- 02
Confirm the deadline
October 31st is the published early-bird cutoff, but no year is attached. Check that it is still the live deadline before you plan around it.
- 03
Ask how to pay
Nothing is published about how passes are ordered or what payment is accepted, so the hill is the only source for that.
A suggestion from JnP
A parent shopping tonight for a family pass cannot tell whether $975 is this season’s price or last season’s, because not one price on the site says which season it belongs to and the early-bird cutoff has no year on it. Stamping a single season value across every price block — and putting a year on that October 31st deadline — is a smaller job than any redesign and removes the only reason a reader would hesitate before paying.
Ready to buy?
This is a concept site, so there is no working form here. Contact the hill directly.