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Hosted at the Vail Marriott Resort in Lionshead, this internationally acclaimed event features five days and nights of the world's greatest jazz musicians – enjoy over twenty-four hours of music!
The Vail Jazz Party brings together an extraordinary lineup of great jazz musicians in an intimate, cabaret-style setting. Watch the masters jam with the up and comers, and enjoy the spontaneous style of this one of a kind celebration of jazz.
Tickets to the Vail Jazz Party are $45/afternoon, $55/evening, $350 event pass and can be purchased through the Vail Jazz Foundation office at (970)479.6146, or 888-VAILJAM (824-5526).
Vail Resorts Announces EpicMix™ a New Online and Mobile Application, Allowing Skiers and Riders a Seamless and Effortless Way to Digitally Capture and Share Their Mountain Experience
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – August 30, 2010 – Today, Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) unveiled EpicMix™, a first-of-its-kind online and mobile application for the 2010-2011 ski and snowboard season. EpicMix allows Vail Resorts guests, at any of its five world-class mountain resorts–Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly–to effortlessly utilize technology to digitally capture their ski and ride experience and share it with friends and family.
EpicMix is a digital application that guests can access online, at their computer or via a free mobile application that can be downloaded for the iPhone, Android or other smart phone. EpicMix automatically captures the activity of guests throughout each of its resorts, by leveraging Vail Resorts’ state-of-the-art radio frequency (RF) scanners that are being installed at each of its 89 lifts across all five mountain resorts. An RF-enabled chip embedded in Vail Resorts’ season passes and PEAKS lift tickets will automatically track guests’ lift rides, calculating vertical feet skied and days on the mountain and will recognize special achievements and accomplishments by granting guests commemorative, collectible digital pins. EpicMix will have hundreds of available digital pins for a multitude of unique experiences available at each resort.
EpicMix will allow guests to share their statistics and accomplishments through updates on Twitter and Facebook and guests can create special EpicMix leader boards with their Facebook friends. The EpicMix mobile application will alert guests when any of their Facebook friends are skiing and where they are on the mountain. The application will also allow guests to send messages to their private groups of Facebook friends on the mountain. The mobile application will also provide trail and grooming information, snow and weather reports, as well as resort news and traffic updates. EpicMix will also have a special website for kids under the age of 14, which will allow them to connect with their parents’ accounts, but will have content designed specifically for them and unique pins only kids can earn. The kids’ site also will have special privacy restrictions. Parents will also be able to use EpicMix to track the lift rides of their kids in real time.
“With the advent of new technology in equipment and new features on the mountain, skiing and riding have become the ultimate form of creative expression in sports and travel. At the same time, the rapid growth of social media has given people a whole new way to express themselves online and connect with friends and family. EpicMix is a groundbreaking experience that brings both together in a seamless and hassle free way for all of our guests,” said Rob Katz, chairman and chief executive officer of Vail Resorts. “EpicMix takes the fun of playing and sharing online and marries it with the very real experience of skiing and riding. By not requiring our guests do anything new, EpicMix is accessible to everyone, not just those already familiar with social media. EpicMix has the ability to track your physical accomplishments, similar to applications like Nike+ and then combine it with the community experience of location-based social media, similar to applications like Gowalla.”
The basic functionality of EpicMix does not require Vail Resorts’ guests to do anything but ski and ride as they always have. There is nothing to buy, nothing new to wear and no required check-ins with their mobile devices. The application is embedded into Vail Resorts’ existing season pass and PEAKS lift tickets. EpicMix can be used by any guest at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly, whether they purchase a season pass or a PEAKS single day lift ticket. EpicMix will launch on opening day at Keystone Mountain on Nov. 5, 2010. The Company has posted a comprehensive video demonstrating the features and functionality of EpicMix at www.epicmix.com.
The privacy of Vail Resorts guests is of paramount importance to the Company and no information collected through EpicMix will be shared unless a guest “opts in” and specifically chooses to share their information. All information collected through EpicMix is subject to the strict privacy policies of Vail Resorts. Guests can choose to disable the RF chip in their pass to prevent any scanning. Children under 14 participating in Epic-Mix will have limited features and a connection only to their parents’ account.
Epic Mix and Vail Resorts Season Passes: EpicMix is available to all Vail Resorts guests who have a PEAKS lift ticket or a season pass. The Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass, Epic 7-Pack, Summit Pass, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin Pass, Heavenly Pass and PEAKS Lift Ticket are all enabled with RF technology and allow guests to participate in Epic Mix. All Vail Resorts season passes are currently on sale now and the revolutionary Epic Pass™ is back for its third season providing unlimited, unrestricted access to six world-class resorts, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly, as well as at Arapahoe Basin at $599 for adults and $299 for children (ages 5 to 12). New this year is the Epic 7-Pack™ (www.epicpass.com): A seven-day unrestricted ticket that skiers and snowboarders can use at any one of Vail Resorts’ five mountain resorts and Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season at a price of $449, or almost 35-percent off of a single-day lift ticket price at the window. Also for the second year, The Summit Pass™ is available to purchase online at www.epicpass.com and provides unlimited, unrestricted lift access at the top Summit County resorts–Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin–at $409 for adults, $319 for teens (ages 13 to 18) and $209 for children (ages 5 to 12). Also new this year is a Keystone and Arapahoe Basin Pass, which offers unlimited, unrestricted skiing and riding at both resorts and is priced at $359 for adults, $299 for teens and $199 for children. Prices on all pass products are guaranteed until Sept. 7, 2010.
• EpicMix leverages radio frequency (RF) technology installed at each of the Company’s 89 lifts across its five mountain resorts and RF chips embedded in the Company’s season passes and lift tickets. • EpicMix will allow guests to track vertical feet skied and days on the mountain. • EpicMix enables guests to share their experiences with family and friends on Facebook and Twitter. • EpicMix will recognize special achievements by rewarding guests with collectible digital pins. • The free EpicMix mobile app will alert guests when their Facebook friends are on the mountain, and can be used to send private messages to meet up. • An EpicMix site for kids will feature special content and privacy restrictions.
Contact(s): Kelly Ladyga phone: (303) 404-1862 Kate Lessman phone: (303) 404-1871
About Vail Resorts Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading mountain resort operator in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries operate the mountain resort properties of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone mountain resorts in Colorado, Heavenly Mountain Resort in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada, and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company, manages casually elegant properties across the United States and the Caribbean. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning, development and construction subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and the consumer website is www.snow.com.
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Contact: Kristen Bertuglia, 477-3455 Sybill Navas, 970-477-3551 Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Special Events Coordinator
August 26, 2010 (Vail)— Gourmet on Gore, an open-air tasting of wine, beer and spirits and the finest food in the Vail Valley, is being honored by the Town of Vail with the second Sustainable Special Event Award for outstanding efforts to host an environmentally conscious event. The award is part of the Town of Vail’s new “Celebrate Green!” program that requires all event producers to complete a points-based checklist to ensure compliance with a minimum number of sustainable practices, but additional points are awarded to those who go above and beyond to reduce waste, encourage public transportation and reduce their carbon footprint. The award, which includes a reduction up to $250 in Town of Vail permitting fees and event signage that announces the achievement, is presented to events that exceed the minimum Celebrate Green! requirements by the greatest margin and that imaginatively implement measures to showcase the event as a model of environmental awareness and sustainability.
Gourmet on Gore is being recognized for outstanding effort in implementing sustainable practices at their event in 2009. The Town of Vail issued 96 special event permits in 2009 and only awarded two of those events with the Sustainable Special Event Award: Gourmet on Gore and Teva Mountain Games. The Town of Vail has developed the “Celebrate Green!” program as a means of encouraging all event producers to implement as many sustainable practices as possible and to provide recognition for those who have made the greatest effort to produce an environmentally conscientious event.
In 2009, Gourmet on Gore took steps to make the event sustainable, going above and beyond the guidelines outlined by the town for the event. Gourmet on Gore used reusable and recyclable supplies such as corn-based serving items and reusable glassware in order to diminish their effect on the environment. They also offered an ECO Partner award to vendors that best adhered to the green guidelines. Winners of the ECO Partner award were presented with a Green Leaf Certificate, a plaque of recognition that was distributed to those vendors who went, “above and beyond.” Greg Schwartz of Highline Sports and Entertainment, the event’s producer, said that the vendors who sold locally grown goods, as well as those who used recycled products were given the award. Nine out of the 20 vendors were recognized. Schwartz is “incredibly happy to help with the green efforts, and hopes that the project will get bigger and stronger as the years go on.” Schwartz’s hope is that people will take the initiative to put recyclables in the proper receptacles, but until they do, “it is not a glamorous job, but we will continue to sort through the trash.”
The 2010 Gourmet on Gore will be taking place Sept. 4 and 5 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Vail Village. For details, call 970-476-6796, ext. 111 or visit www.gourmetongore.com.
The Town of Vail and the Commission on Special Events thank all of the event producers for helping to do their part to preserve Vail’s environment.
For more information or questions, call Kristen Bertuglia, Town of Vail environmental sustainability coordinator at 477-3445 or Sybill Navas, Town of Vail special events coordinator, 479-3551.
