Elk is a lovely mountain with some great trails. ...

Elk is a lovely mountain with some great trails. Its actually one of my favorites in the area. Having said that, let me explain why I'm rating them with 1 star. When out comes to night skiing, elk does not do all that it could to make the skiing experience awesome. I work during the day, so i mainly ski elk at night. I get out of work early enough to get there just before four. However, elk will not sell a night ski pass even a minute before 4pm. So I'm sitting around waiting instead of skiing. Which brings me to my second point. Elk closes some of its best trails (in my opinion) at night. If you start right at four you can ski one or two of them at most before they close them. That makes sense in December when it's dark before five, but in March they could leave those trails open a little longer for their customer's enjoyment. So consider those two points together. I'm at the mountain 20 minutes early, but i can't buy a ticket yet. So i spend those twenty minutes fuming as i think about how my favorite trails are open but by the time i can start skiing they wont be, and the rest of the night i will be limited to just the few trails they have lit . Next time i will spend those twenty minutes driving the extra distance to greek peak.