It took almost a year, but it looks like Vail Resorts is going to interact with EPIC Pass owners with email offers and a new forum. Communicate with fellow skiers and snowboarders, search for coupons and deals. LINK
The EPIC Pass forum is the first season pass forum as far as I know. Skiing sites are hard to make viral on the intranet. Their are 4 or 5 authoritative sites like TGR and EPIC. Most resorts have sites now but most don't have a forum.
With 59.100 EPIC Pass owners for 08-09 this forum has a pre-built community.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
12 Hour Skiing and Snowboarding at Sunday River
There is a saying that the sun never sets in the land of cool and it could not be better suited anywhere than Sunday River. Thanks to the resort’s new 12-hour skiing and riding, you can keep on playing well into the evening.
With 12-hour skiing and riding on weekends and most holidays, there’s no need to rush to the slopes at sunrise and it doesn’t matter if you have to work on a powder day. There’s no need to wake the kids first thing in the morning for a full eight hours of skiing because with 12-hour skiing, you have the flexibility to ski during the morning, afternoon, evening, or all three. As the sun sets, there’s no race for the last chair because at the end of the day, there is still plenty of night.
Open trails will be groomed individually between 4pm and 5pm, allowing access to the majority of the terrain during this period and all terrain once grooming is complete.
Open for 12 hour skiing:
Dream Maker
Escapade
Second Mile
Southway
Broadway
Sundance
South Ridge Park
Who-Ville
With 12-hour skiing and riding on weekends and most holidays, there’s no need to rush to the slopes at sunrise and it doesn’t matter if you have to work on a powder day. There’s no need to wake the kids first thing in the morning for a full eight hours of skiing because with 12-hour skiing, you have the flexibility to ski during the morning, afternoon, evening, or all three. As the sun sets, there’s no race for the last chair because at the end of the day, there is still plenty of night.
Open trails will be groomed individually between 4pm and 5pm, allowing access to the majority of the terrain during this period and all terrain once grooming is complete.
Open for 12 hour skiing:
Dream Maker
Escapade
Second Mile
Southway
Broadway
Sundance
South Ridge Park
Who-Ville
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Vail Resorts Epic Pass Available For 2009-2010
Vail Resorts announced that the popular EPIC PASS will be available for the 2009-2010 ski season. This is good news for anyone with the Ski Colorado itch. At $97 a day to ski or snowboard at Vail and or Beaver Creek the $579.00 cost of the EPIC Pass pays for itself after 5 days.
Vail Resorts based in Broomfield Colorado has also released the number of pass's sold for the 2008-2009 ski season at 59'100.
The no blackout EPIC PASS is good at all of Vail resorts including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone or Heavenly Ca.
Vail Resorts based in Broomfield Colorado has also released the number of pass's sold for the 2008-2009 ski season at 59'100.
The no blackout EPIC PASS is good at all of Vail resorts including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone or Heavenly Ca.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Shaun White Wins Super Pipe At XGames 09
Shaun White has won the Super Pipe competition at The X-Games in Aspen Colorado.
This win marks the first time any competitor has won back to back gold in any event in the 13 year history of Winter X Games.
The competition was a little shaky as very few of the runs where complete. Most where washing out towards the ends of their runs. Aspen was in the mist of a blizzard which was filling the pipe with snow.
If you would like to attend the X Games make your arrangements early. X Games has locked in with Aspen until 2012. Aspen is big bucks. The earlier you make your hotel reservations the more you will save.
This win marks the first time any competitor has won back to back gold in any event in the 13 year history of Winter X Games.
The competition was a little shaky as very few of the runs where complete. Most where washing out towards the ends of their runs. Aspen was in the mist of a blizzard which was filling the pipe with snow.
If you would like to attend the X Games make your arrangements early. X Games has locked in with Aspen until 2012. Aspen is big bucks. The earlier you make your hotel reservations the more you will save.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Ski Lift Accedent Leaves Man Hanging By Pants
JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. Read More at Skier Suffers Exposure - January 6, 2009
Unfortunately this is not the only incident that happened at A Vail Resort property over the Holiday's Probably unreported but my brother and myself where skiing at Beaver Creek during the same period of time and witnessed two chairlift incidents.
The first was at Larkspur chair when a woman fell and the operator didn't stop the lift in time hitting the woman in the head. They simply picked the poor lady up and put her on the next chair.
The second indecent was at the rose bowl chair. A snowboarder didn't load properly and fell out of the chair after launch, landing 10 feet in front of the loading area. Again the lifties simply picked the guy up and put him on the next chair.
Do you see a pattern here? None of the lift operators apparently offered any medical attention or even a apology during the incidents my brother and I witnessed.
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