For Tahoe skiers, they not only got access to Squaw Valley and Alpine, but unlimited skiing at 24 other ski destinations as well. Soon after, Alterra created a season pass to encompass all its properties and called it the Ikon Pass. Then in 2017, KSL and Henry Crown and Company bought Intrawest, Deer Valley, and Mammoth, calling the new conglomerate Alterra. The two resorts are right next to each other offering skiers more than 6,000 acres combined of skiable trails (although not physically connected) and KSL began promoting the two ski resorts as one called Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows. Meanwhile over on the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe, JMA Ventures sold Alpine Meadows to KSL Capital Partners in 2011 who was managing Squaw Valley Ski Resort (now Palisades) at the time. The company had acquired Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe in 2002, then Northstar on the North Shore in 2010 and Kirkwood in 2012. I've lived in Lake Tahoe for 13 years, and I can trace the local season pass wars to 2008-09 when Vail introduced the Epic Pass to Tahoe through its portfolio of ski resorts.
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The Ikon Base Pass, which comes at about a $300 discount to the $1049 full Ikon Pass, gets skiers unlimited skiing to these mountains with some blackout dates (which might seem familiar): Ikon Base Pass Blackout dates for Palisades Tahoe and Mammoth:īoth the Ikon and Epic passes offer incredible terrain, decent vertical drop, powder stashes, and bountiful skiable acreage…so which pass is better?Ī Quick History of the Ikon and the Epic Season Passes in the Lake Tahoe Area The other major pass, offered by Alterra, which owns Palisades Tahoe and Mammoth, is the Ikon Pass, which gets skiers unlimited access to its mountains (Mammoth is not really in the Tahoe region, we know).
There is no access to Whistler-Blackcomb. In addition, skiers get five total days at other mainline Vail-owned mountains: Vail, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Crested Butte and Park City. Skiers who prefer Northstar, Kirkwood and Heavenly will get incredible value here, but it's probably best to try and dodge those peak crowds as even more people are going to hold Epic Passes at this price. The full Epic Pass, priced less than $900 remains quite a value for skiers who can use it enough. The Tahoe Local Epic Pass saves skiers about $400 from the $900 full Epic Pass and grants access to the three Vail-owned Tahoe resorts minus some select blackout dates around the holidays.
Vail, as the owner of Heavenly, Kirkwood, and Northstar, offers a special Epic Pass for Tahoe-specific skier-the Tahoe Local Pass-in addition to its no-blackout full-throttle Epic Pass. The two major ski passes of consequence, Vail Resorts's Epic Pass and Alterra's Ikon Pass, have made California one of their primary battlegrounds.
All Tahoe mountains are after the same customer, and the competition for skiers continues to grow fiercer. In the last few years Tahoe has seen plenty of mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships that directly caused fluctuations in season pass pricing and value.
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