No, i would never steel a guys lift ticket. It usually works at half day time when people purchase a full day and then they can only ski half a day. This actually happens a bunch sometimes you gotta wait 20 minutes though

Often the father of a family trip will have a member of his family who doesn't want to go that day and being the wealthy business man he is, he is more then willing to sell his extra full day pass for 1/2 or 2/3rds full price for cash. this has happened for me many times when i used to live here 5 years ago. No the Telluride trip would be: leave durango really early on a nice day fly there

buy full day ticket, try to get first run and ski the hell out of yours legs all day to get your $$$worth then fly back
My buddy used to be a snowboard instructor at Steamboat for 5 or 6 years and know is a school teacher in Denver, we are certainly planning to do a weekend at Steamboat. He knows the resort like we know our airplanes. great to ride w/locals really the best way to ride such a big resort. Hopefull we can organize something??