Mt. Bachelor ski resort is raising the price of most season passes for the coming season by $20, according to an email to pass holders Thursday.

The increase, the fifth in a row since 2012-13, represents a 2.2 percent increase on the adult, full-season pass, the resort’s biggest selling product, President and General Manager John McLeod stated in the email.

An adult pass, if purchased before Oct. 1, costs $949 and rises to $1,149 afterward. The price of a single-day lift ticket will increase by $4 to $96, a 4.3 percent hike, McLeod wrote. Passes are on sale now.

McLeod cited a 4.9 percent increase in Oregon’s minimum wage as a “major driver of cost inflation” in other areas, including food, transportation and operations.

“Although I fully realize no price increase is welcome, by managing our business responsibly we are able to keep our price increases below the rate of increase in many of our costs,” he wrote.

The price of teen, youth and child passes will remain the same as last season, McLeod wrote. A child’s pass, age 5 and under, is $29; a youth pass, age 6-12, is $219; and a teen pass, age 13-18, is $329, if purchased before Oct. 1. The child’s pass price remains the same after the early discount cutoff.

For the 2016-17 season, the resort raised the price of a discounted adult season pass by $40 from $889 to $924. Prior to that, the resort raised adult season pass prices by $20 every year between 2012 and 2015, according to The Bulletin archives. The price of a season pass remained $799 between 2008 and 2011.

— Reporter: 541-617-7815, 
jditzler@bendbulletin.com