Pick your pass type and the whole guide re-reads itself — what each mountain actually costs you in days, where the blackouts land, and when the snow is worth the flight.
Three rulebooks, running at once. Which one applies decides whether a mountain is free or costs you a scarce day.
Vail Resorts' own mountains. On the full pass there is no day cap and no blackout — turn up and scan. On Epic Local the premium ones go dark on holidays.
Canadian Rockies partners draw from one shared allowance — six resorts, seven days between them. Spend them anywhere in the group.
Europe, Japan and Telluride, each with its own day count. Several must be used consecutively, and the My Epic phone pass does not open these gates.
Access rules follow the pass you picked above. Click any mountain for live conditions and the official snow report.
Log days as you ski them and watch the pooled allowance drain. Kept in this browser only — no account, nothing leaves the page.
Fernie · Kicking Horse · Kimberley · Nakiska · Mont-Sainte-Anne · Stoneham
A strong-to-historic El Niño is forecast. It doesn't cancel a season — it moves where the reliable snow sits.
What unlimited is worth when you start from YVR.
Whistler is the only unlimited mountain inside BC. Stevens Pass is the nearest US one and still a long weekend by car.
A workable split: the home mountain for ordinary weekends, one road trip to burn the pooled days, one flight to anchor the season.
The deepest reliable window in an ordinary year, before this season's El Niño tilt is applied.
The My Epic phone pass will not open a lift gate at any partner resort. It only proves the pass is yours so the window can issue a ticket — bring the plastic.
Its three days unlock only if you book directly with a participating property. Les 3 Vallées dropped that requirement for 2026–27, leaving Arlberg the last one holding it.
Target dates move with the snowfall, and an opening day often means one lift and a ribbon of white. Read the snow report in the fortnight before you drive.
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