Vail Resorts also owns just over 50% of Slifer Smith and Frampton (SSF), the largest real... The founders of SSF are Rod Slifer, a former ski instructor who was recently the mayor of the...
374°W Status Operating Owner Vail Resorts Vertical 3,450 ft (1,052 m) Top elevation 11,570... In 1993, Vail changed primary lift manufacturers, from Doppelmayr to Garaventa-CTEC, who...
Festival, Vail Resorts Snow Days, and Bravo! Vail. [10][11][12][13] Contents 1 History 2... The pass was named after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S. Highway 6 through the...
Vail Resorts (formerly Vail Associates) is the corporation that owns Beaver Creek. It also operates Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Vail Mountain, Kirkwood, Park City and Northstar at...
In 2023, Vail applied the Epic Pass membership model to a new category for the first time: ski gear. Launched in December and available through Vail’s My Epic app, the company’s new My Epic Gear program aims to provide the benefits of gear ownership but with more choices and without the hassle of checked luggage. Skiers can choose name-brand, high-quality gear at the beginning of a season, and it will be available on their ski days, fully tuned, via free in-resort delivery or slope-side pick...
Snowsure: 4.6 · (1) Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing, (2) is often closed due to a lack of snow, (3) occasionally suffers from a lack of snow, (4) rarely suffers from a lack of snow, (5) Vail is snowsure even in the poorest seasons. Variety of pistes: 4.7 · (1) The ski runs are featureless and unvaried, (3) the ski runs are varied but not extensive enough for a week, (5) Vail has diverse and interesting pistes including forests and high alpine terrain.
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Kirsten Lynch, the chief executive of Vail Resorts, is beginning her second year at the helm of a ski industry behemoth that owns 41 resorts in the U.S, Canada, Australia and Switzerland, including five in Colorado. Born and raised in Chicago, she fell in love with skiing at Wilmot Mountain, a tiny area in Wisconsin improbably nicknamed “The Matterhorn of the Midwest” despite having only 193 feet of vertical drop. Her family skied there often and made frequent ski trips to Colorado, fueling ...
VAIL — One has worked on the mountain before there were grooming machines, and the other literally helped build most of the lifts that whiz skiers up the mountain today. John Donovan and Steve Bobson will be honored as longtime Vail Resorts employees and trailblazers on Vail Mountain on Thursday at a the company’s annual seniority banquet at Beaver Creek. Donovan is a ski instructor and mountain tour guide, and will be completing his 45th year with Vail Resorts, making him the longest-serving employee. Bobson is a lift mechanic and will be ...