![]() ![]() The company largely addressed these issues last week with a comprehensive plan to raise frontline-employee wages to $20 an hour continent-wide, aggressively build housing on its owned land, boost human-resources support, and move corporate employees back into resort communities via a flexible-work program. This year’s Epic Pass release comes at the tail-end of a sometimes-troubling season for Vail Resorts, during which staffing shortages contributed to idled lifts, inadequate snowmaking, and truncated operating hours at ski areas across the country. This is in addition to over $300 million the company is investing in the mountain experience next season, with 21 new lifts across 14 resorts to reduce lift line wait times. Vail Resorts recently announced an incremental $175 million investment in its employees, which includes increasing its minimum wage to $20 per hour across each of its 37 North American resorts, and raising hourly wages an average of 30 percent. We are committed to providing an amazing value and experience to our Pass Holders.” “We are making bold investments to ensure we have a fully staffed team of passionate, engaged employees and adding 21 new lifts across 14 of our resorts to help skiers and riders get up and around the mountains faster and easier. “We will not waver in our commitment to continuously reinvest in the ski and ride experience with the goal of creating an Experience of a Lifetime for our Pass Holders,” said Ryan Bennett, chief marketing officer of Vail Resorts. Vail is also introducing a new Epic FlexPay monthly payment plan and a lower-tier, lower-cost Epic Day Pass. Access tiers and pass products remain mostly unchanged, save for the addition of newly acquired Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel in Pennsylvania to several passes and the loss of Snowbasin and Sun Valley, which will join the Ikon and Mountain Collective Passes next season instead. Slightly more expensive than last season comes as no surprise. Last season Vail Resorts cut Epic Pass prices by 20 percent across the board and sold a record total of 2.1 million Epic Passes, 76 percent more than the previous season. United offers direct flights from IAD to Denver Frontier has a nonstop from DCA to Denver Spirit flies direct from BWI to Denver Southwest offers nonstop flights from both IAD and BWI.Vail Resorts launched its Epic Pass products for the 2022-’23 season and their prices have increased, but only slightly. to Denver and Keystone is ~1.5 hours drive from DIA. Getting To: There are lots of options from D.C. Keystone also has the largest night skiing area in Colorado. It's on the Epic Pass and there are special value passes to combine with nearby Breckenridge and Crested Butte. A trip to Keystone is easy to combine with visits to nearby resorts. Lakeside Village, 5 minutes away, has more dining options, shopping and one of the world's largest Zamboni maintained lakes for ice skating. Keystone is easy to navigate with two base villages. Snowfall is reliable, averaging 225"+ annually. Keystone has plenty for off-piste enthusiasts - rock crags, bowls, glades and backcountry account for more than half of the terrain. However, don't be fooled by its "family-friendly" reputation. An easy trip from Denver, reasonable lodging options and convenient parking are just a few reasons why Keystone is one of the most family friendly resorts in the Colorado Rockies. ![]()
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