On a phone call with the Co-op Journal this week, Kircher said that prior to 2017 he’d been trying to buy Crystal from his family’s business for about 10 years. He handled Boyne’s acquisition of Crystal Mountain in 1997, becoming the resort’s president and CEO. John, 60, has worked in the ski industry his entire life: He got his start at Boyne Mountain in Michigan and became general manager of Boyne-owned Big Sky Resort in Montana in 1980.
(Photo Credit: Alterra Mountain Company) But what’s perhaps most interesting about this latest deal is that Crystal Mountain had just sold a little over a year ago to its current owner, John Kircher, who bought the mountain in 2017 from Boyne Resorts, the Michigan-based company owned by his family. Got an Ikon Pass? This could be you at Crystal Mountain Resort this winter. The total count, as of now? The Ikon Pass gets you lift access at 35 resorts in North America, Australia and Japan, including 13 Alterra Mountain Company destinations and 22 partner resorts. In June, Alterra announced it was acquiring Utah’s Solitude Mountain, and in late August, the company established partnerships and pass access to Utah’s Brighton Resort, New Mexico’s Taos Ski Valley, Washington’s The Summit at Snoqualmie, British Columbia’s Cypress Mountain, Maine’s Sunday River and Sugarloaf, New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain and Michigan’s Boyne Mountain. The $999 Ikon Pass works at ski resorts like Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Mammoth, Winter Park, Steamboat, Snowbird, Aspen and Deer Valley. Crystal is now part of the new-for-this-winter Ikon Pass, a collective pass with full access to all Alterra-owned resorts and limited access to even more world-class resorts. On Thursday, Alterra Mountain Company, the new Denver, Colorado-based company that owns more than a dozen ski resorts around the country, announced it’d be bringing yet another ski area onto its roster: Washington’s Crystal Mountain Resort.
Want to meet at Crystal Mountain from the comfort of your own home? Now you can with our Crystal Mountain Zoom backgrounds! Click any of the images below to see a larger version, and right click to save the image to your computer.Just one year after purchasing Crystal Mountain Resort in Washington from his family’s Boyne Resorts, John Kircher decided to sell his ski area to Alterra Mountain Company, now making Crystal an Ikon Pass destination. We ask that you give Crystal Mountain photo credit for each photo you use. Please keep in mind that the photographs contained in the Crystal Mountain Media Room are for editorial use only and may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission from Crystal Mountain and the photographer.
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