Vail’s been on an acquisition frenzy since then, and the complete Epic Pass now gets you entry to 20 Vail-owned resorts, 17 more mountains recently acquired from Peak Resorts, and a slew of parnters in the United States and abroad. If you don’t plan on traveling the world all winter, you may not need the full-priced pass, and there are less expensive, slightly more restrictive options that are perfectly fine for most skiers. What You Get: The Epic Pass launched in 2008 to grant skiers and riders access to all of Vail Resorts’ properties, which at the time included Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breckenridge in Colorado and Heavenly in California. Epic Pass (Rrrainbow/iStock)īest For: Families with young kids world-traveling skiers East Coasters or Midwesterners who take a yearly ski trip out west. There are others, and many have killer deals. But the Epic and Ikon are not the only collective passes out there. You only need to ski four to six days to make those pass prices worth it. Meanwhile, an Epic Pass, which grants you unrestricted access to Vail and an immense number of other resorts, currently runs for $969 an Ikon Pass, which gets you seven days of skiing at Aspen and unlimited skiing at over a dozen other resorts, is currently $1,049. And why should they?Ī walk-up day ticket to Vail, Colorado, during peak season costs over $200 at Aspen, it’s $179. And with the advent of collective season passes-mega passes like the popular Epic and Ikon-fewer skiers and snowboarders are buying pricey day tickets anymore. Lift tickets are best purchased online and in advance, just like plane tickets. Walking up to the lift-ticket counter at a ski resort and buying a ticket for the day is like strolling into the airport and saying, “I’d like to buy a ticket to Denver, please.” Nobody does that anymore. and Mammoth Resorts, it was announced by Aspen Skiing and is led by former Aspen executive David Perry. When the company formed last year with the acquisition of Intrawest Corp. Alterra lists its resorts as Steamboat, Winter Park, California’s Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, June Mountain and Big Bear Mountain Resort, Vermont’s Stratton, West Virginia’s Snowshoe, Canada’s Tremblant and Blue Mountain, Utah’s Deer Valley Resort and CMH Heli-Skiing & Summer. Aspen Skiing Co.’s Aspen, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass ski areas are not listed among Alterra’s destinations but Aspen Snowmass is called a partner and its mountains are included in the pass. The pass differentiates between Alterra’s ski areas and 11 partners. The popular Mountain Collective pass will continue for 2018-19. The new pass replaces the Rocky Mountain SuperPass, which will not be offered for 2018-19. The Ikon Pass will include coveted resorts such as Aspen Snowmass (the marketing name for Aspen Skiing Co.’s four mountains), Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Mountain and Utah’s Alta and Snowbird, according to Thursday’s announcement, but it was not clear how much skiing at those and other resorts will be offered and under what restrictions. , which formed last year by corralling a dozen top-tier destination ski resorts, forged the pass, offering a blend of limited and unlimited skiing on 50,000 acres across 23 resorts in nine states and three Canadian provinces. The Ikon Pass is a collaboration of resorts unified to unseat the dominance of the 750,000 Epic Passes sold by Vail Resorts. With a flashing billboard and ice sculpture at the Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show, the newest Goliath in the ski resort industry on Thursday unveiled a new ski pass that could rival Vail Resorts’ wildly popular Epic Pass. Averill Doering adjusts her boots after a morning of skiing at Steamboat Resort in 2018.
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