SkiStar Lift Passes - Where can you use them or equivalents?

Just got back from a week in Are, Sweden[1] - first time I've been on
real snow for a while.

They use a credit-card liftpass that you pop in a pocket and it gets
read by the readers at the barriers without having to take it out[2].
The card itself is marked "SkiStar" - has anyone else come across this
or a similar liftpass?

It was much better than the ones I've used before which usually
required taking your gloves off and putting a card into a slot.

[1] Heavy drag-lift bias and pretty cold but the snow and the, er,
"scenery" more than made up.
[2] presumably RFID
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Christofire

The system is also used in japan ,really nice !fast.grg

The card itself is marked "SkiStar" - has anyone else come across this
or a similar liftpass?

SkiStar owns =C5re, and they seem to have a proprietary ski pass system.
It's used in Hemsedal here in Norway, and will likely start being used
in Trysil soon - both of which places are SkiStar resorts.

Most of the other resorts here in Norway use the KeyCard system, which
is more standard I think - the Swatch ski pass watches work with it.
The KeyCard works exactly the same as how you described SkiStar.

they also use at Hintertux in Austria and have just installed the same system at Courchevel in France.

Christofire wrote:
Just got back from a week in Are, Sweden[1] - first time I've been on
real snow for a while.

They use a credit-card liftpass that you pop in a pocket and it gets
read by the readers at the barriers without having to take it out[2].

I think nearly every resort I go to in Austria has magnetic passes. I
just put it in my glove pocket. I rarely see slot ones any more.

Octes

Grand Valira in Andorra have them too.

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David Brown )

Octessence wrote:

Christofire wrote:
Just got back from a week in Are, Sweden[1] - first time I've been
on real snow for a while.

They use a credit-card liftpass that you pop in a pocket and it gets
read by the readers at the barriers without having to take it
out[2].

I think nearly every resort I go to in Austria has magnetic passes. I
just put it in my glove pocket. I rarely see slot ones any more.

Octes

Blimey - I only had a couple of winters off and it's all changed. Much
for the better though.

Now, if only you could go on their website and see a log of all the
runs you did. That'd be pretty cool.

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Christofire