Starting next winter season, Arapahoe Basin, the Colorado ski resort famous for its late spring skiing, will end its twenty-year Epic pass partnership program with Vail Resorts.
The official reason for the split announced by A-Basin is that the joint business deal has created “a pinch on parking and facility space” and due to these constraints, “Arapahoe Basin believes its staff can take better care of its guests by separating from Vail Resorts”, the company statement continued.
To me there as to be more than these flimsy reasons for that breakup and this might be symptomatic in cracks in that multi-resort pass experiment.
What was striking though, is that A-Basin chief operating officer, Alan Henceroth, added that in the coming months, “he'll be discussing opportunities with several resorts and resort groups”, and one obvious suitor might be Alterra...
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