Head up to Jackson, cruise down to Taos, storm-chase your way to Mammoth, or go big Canadian-style up at Revelstoke.

You could plan a ski trip to any one of 40 different resorts and travel your face off for the winter. The list of resorts you get some (or unlimited) free days at is pretty darn impressive. The pass benefits are pretty sweet: you get eight discounted buddy passes for friends (at 25% off), plus membership in the climate-change-fighting Protect Our Winters nonprofit, plus 10% off resort food. This is enough to keep any snow fiend happy and then some. So enjoy skiing anytime at Solitude, and as a bonus, you’ll score five days each at Brighton, Deer Valley, and Alta-Snowbird. and Canada-and one of those resorts happens to be our dear local hangout, Solitude Resort. The Ikon Pass gives you a full season pass with unlimited days at twelve resorts around the U.S. The Ikon Pass What it means in Utah ski days: If Salt Lake locals (and visitors!) play their cards right, they can purchase one of these collective passes and have an incredible season cruising around our incredible area resorts and taking trips to some killer far-flung areas they may not have explored otherwise. The dominant trend is toward groupings like the Ikon, Epic, and Mountain Collective passes-each with their own bells and whistles, such as free days at X number of resorts, with bonus discounts on lodging, food, and day passes elsewhere. That’s before we even get into the collective-style pass options. And if you buy a full Snowbird (“Summit”) pass, you get a Mountain Collective pass thrown in plus a day each at Alta, Solitude, Brighton, and Deer Valley.

Meanwhile, you can buy a combined Snowbird-Alta pass for less than the price of getting them separately. For example, if you buy a local Big Cottonwood pass, you get a full season pass to go to either Solitude or the adjacent Brighton, plus a free day each at Alta, Snowbird, and Deer Valley. With more collective passes on the market, there’s more pressure on resorts to participate and/or offer more bonuses with their regular season passes. Not only are we incredibly lucky to have four resorts within quick striking distance of Salt Lake (and several more within an hour or two), but lately “collective”-style season pass offerings have really spiced up the ski options. Here in Ski City, we are blessed not only by the powder gods but by the sheer number of outstanding resort options in our immediate midst.

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