First off, I'm finally back on here after being off for far too long!  My luck all of the original's on here have left and everyone else is new. LOL

Anyway, after being out of snowboarding regularly since the early 2010's, I've done a few instances here and there, notably before Covid hit.  

Now that I'm getting back into boarding, I'm seeing resorts have limits on ticket sales???  In that say a given resorts day tickets have to be bought online and once they sell out no more can be sold that day??

What's the premise behind this?  From the late 90's to early 2010's when I was a regular at Bryce, Timberline, and Wisp, none of these resorts had such limits.  Is this purely for crowd control and keep lift lines manageable?  This just really caught me offguard (along with ticket prices wowzer!) when I started looking online.