Thursday, August 30, 2012

Vail Resorts guarantees lowest Epic Pass

Vail Resorts’ entire season pass line-up offers something for every type of skier and snowboarder, including four different season pass options in Colorado ranging in price from $419 to $659. These pass prices are only guaranteed through September 3.

This unparalleled mountain resort access on one pass features 30 bowls, 29 terrain parks and 23,610 acres of the best terrain in the world at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in California and Nevada. Ski or ride six days in one season and, priced at $659, the Epic Pass pays for itself, then ski or ride for free the rest of the season.

The Epic Local Pass, for $509, pays for itself in less than five days and is perfect for locals who can navigate a few more restrictions. The Epic Local Pass offers unlimited and unrestricted skiing or riding at Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin with limited holiday restrictions at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood. It also includes a total of 10 days at Vail or Beaver Creek with holiday restrictions. $50 pass holder tickets are also available for purchase during blackout dates at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood.

Summit Value Pass pays for itself in less than four days and is a great option for people who only plan to ski and ride Summit County. The Summit Value Pass is available for $419 and provides unlimited and unrestricted lift access to Keystone and Arapahoe Basin, as well as access to Breckenridge with limited holiday restrictions. Pass holders can purchase access to Breckenridge on restricted days for $50 per day.

Epic 7-Day pays for itself in less than five days and is ideal for people who don’t plan to ski more than seven days. The Epic 7-Day gives skiers and snowboarders a total of seven unrestricted days of skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar, plus Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season for a price of $509.

The Epic Pass, the best season pass deal in the ski industry offering unlimited, unrestricted skiing and riding at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood and Arapahoe Basin is available for $659. It pays for itself in less than six days.

While the camera does a fine job of simply converting the note to a digital note for filing away in Evernote, what I really like are the stickers. Inside the app, I can customize each sticker by selecting the notebook to which a new note will be added. I’ve got a DIY notebook that I keep in Evernote, and the app not only files it automatically into the DIY notebook, but it also adds tags that I can configure in the app to be applied to notes for future searches.

The Smart Notebook comes in a two sizes — 3.5″ x 5.5″ and 5″ x 8.25″ – each size comes in either Ruled format or Squared format paper and the prices are $24.95 and $29.95 respectively. The price is a bit higher for these than the basic Moleskines, but remember that it comes with 3 months of Premium membership. Premium membership runs $5 per month , so figure you’re getting $15 of Premium membership that’s included in the price.  They’ll be available October 1, but you can pre-order them here.

If you’re an Evernote Premium user as well as a Moleskine fan, this is a pretty slick deal, especially if you can fill up a notebook every three months or so. If you’re not a Premium user, be sure to check out all the benefits of converting your free account here. For me, the upload size increase,larger allowable note size and the ability to access my notebooks offline makes the Premium account worthwhile.

As someone who just isn’t that big a fan of paper, I’ve got to admit that I love the look of the Smart Notebook and after a number of tests taking photos of old engineer notebook pages and comparing them to the ones taken using the Smart page, there’s no arguing that the scanned pages from the Smart Notebook just look better. I could achieve the same thing by doing some photo manipulation, but I hate photo editing, and the Smart Notebook camera feature is just faster. Add in the fact that the Evernote servers will take my images and apply OCR to them so that I can later use keywords to find them fast… and I’m sold.

And please don’t take offense that I refer to pen and paper as old school. I’m using it as just a figure of speech here.  My 5 year old has graduated from crayons to a real pencil and he’s quite proud of that and the little Moleskine sketchbook that I’ve provided to him. I’m a long-time fan of Moleskine and have filled many up over the years and hope to fill many more.

Well, that’s it for my little Efficiency Ninja series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and maybe discovered something that can make your work and/or personal life a little more efficient, organized, less-stressful, or all three. I’m always on the lookout for new software, new tips, new techniques, and new products and services that exist to make my work and home life operate more smoothly. I’d love to hear from you about your own Efficiency Ninja solutions, so please leave a comment if you’ve got something to share!

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