Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass holders can now share some savings with their skiing and snowboarding friends during the 2025-26 season with the new “Epic Friend Tickets,” Vail Resorts announced Tuesday in a statement.

According to Vail Resorts, pass holders with an Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Epic Military Pass, Northeast Value Pass, and most of the company’s other season-long passes will receive either 6 or 10 Epic Friend Tickets, depending on when they purchased their Pass.

Eligible Pass holders who purchased passes before April 14 will receive 10 Epic Friend Tickets, and those who purchased after April 14 will receive six Epic Friend Tickets.

Vail Resorts said Epic Friend Tickets provide 50% off lift tickets at the company’s 37 North American resorts for the 2025-26 winter season, plus friends can also apply 100% of the cost of one redeemed Epic Friend Ticket toward an eligible 2026-27 Epic Pass – providing double the savings.

Epic Friend Tickets can be redeemed through EpicPass.com, then activated in the My Epic app for direct-to-lift access. The accompanying Pass holder must scan their Pass in a lift line before an Epic Friend Ticket becomes scannable.

“Skiers and snowboarders know this sport is magic; a passion you can’t help but pass on,” Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said of the new Epic Friend Tickets. “If you ski or ride, chances are someone brought you into the sport, and we want to make it easier for you to pay it forward. Epic Friend Tickets are the next step on our nearly two-decade-long journey to find ways to make skiing more accessible to more people.”

According to Vail Resorts, Epic Friend Tickets replaces and upgrades Buddy Tickets, a former Pass benefit, which generally offered much lower savings off lift ticket prices, and which varied by resort.

Current Epic Pass pricing through Sept. 1:

• The Epic Pass ($1,075 adults; $548 children) offers unlimited, unrestricted access to Vail Resorts’ 42 owned and operated mountain resorts.
• The Epic Local Pass ($799 adults; $416 children) provides unlimited, unrestricted access to 29 resorts, plus access to more destination resorts with some restrictions.
• The Epic Military Pass with access to all of the company’s 42 resorts is currently $190 for active and retired military and their dependents, and $614 for veterans and their dependents.
• The Epic 1-7 Day Passes provide up to 65% savings compared to lift ticket prices by purchasing ahead of the season, but do not include Epic Friend Tickets.

“By making it easier for our Pass Holders to share the ski experience with friends – through savings across not one, but two winter seasons – we hope to help spark traditions that will inspire groups of friends to return to the mountains for years to come,” Katz said.

All Passes are on sale now, and are at the lowest price of the fall. Prices go up Sept. 1.