Skiers can buy a discounted Epic Pass before Labor Day

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New England Journey

Additionally, discover out when Vail Resorts in New England will open for this yr’s ski season.

Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont. Courtesy of Okemo Mountain Resort

Skiers and riders wanting to save cash on the slopes this yr can decide up an Epic Cross at a reduction earlier than Labor Day.

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The Vail Resorts full cross for the 2022-2023 season, which permits limitless entry to 41 resorts throughout the nation and globe, is on sale for $859. The worth will enhance on Sept. 5, in keeping with the corporate.

New England resorts included within the cross are: Vermont’s Mount Snow, Stowe, and Okemo and New Hampshire’s Mount Sunapee, Wildcat, Attitash, and Crotched Mountain. New this season is entry to Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland. Here’s a checklist of the 41 resorts.

Vail Resorts will restrict ticket gross sales this season, the corporate introduced Monday. However passes won’t be restricted. 

Other than the Epic Cross, among the hottest passes and their present costs, in keeping with Vail Resorts, are the Epic Native Cross for $639, which supplies limitless, unrestricted entry to 29 resorts; the Northeast Worth Cross for $525; which supplies entry to 21 resorts throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic; and the Epic Day Cross, which begins at $45 and affords as much as 65 p.c off elevate ticket costs.

Skiers with passes additionally obtain 20 p.c off of meals, lodging, classes, and leases. The Epic Cross additionally permits restricted entry to greater than 80 companion resorts worldwide. All passes embody the corporate’s “Epic Protection,” which suggests cross holders can request refunds attributable to job loss, sickness, damage, and extra.

Opening dates for the corporate’s New England resorts are as follows (and are topic to vary attributable to climate circumstances):

  • Nov. 11: Mt. Snow in Vermont
  • Nov. 18: Stowe in Vermont and Wildcat in New Hampshire
  • Nov. 19: Okemo in Vermont
  • Nov. 23: Mt. Sunapee in New Hampshire
  • Dec. 2: Attitash and Crotched, each in New Hampshire, Crotched

Company also can count on “extra regular indoor operations” this season, in keeping with the corporate, as a result of eating reservations and proof of COVID-19 vaccination will now not be required.