Welcome to ThinkVail – we hope you find this article about what is Epic Mix helpful.
What is EpicMix? In a nut shell, the EpicMix app will simplify and organize you and your family’s time on the ski mountain and make your ski vacation soooo much better and easier.
EpicMix is a free iPhone/Android app that uses a RFID-based system placed in a plastic card that is hung around your neck or kept in a pocket and is scanned to allow you access to the lifts. Pass and ticket holders can easily track snow conditions, lift line wait times, view trail maps, web cams, add a credit card for on-mountain purchases, easy unencumbered scanning at all lifts and easily connect with family members on the mountain. It also lets skiers and riders track their days on the ski mountain and share their accomplishments automatically by social media.
EpicMix tracks your on-mountain achievements and links friends and family members to see their accomplishments. Capture your family’s memories, track personal on-mountain achievements and milestones and share your photos.
If you have an Vail Resorts’ Pass or a PEAKS lift ticket, you can activate the free EpicMix accounts at www.epicmix.com or just go to your App Store.
There is so much that this App can do, and once you activate it, and set it up, you really don’t need to do much more. There is no need to start or stop tracking – EpicMix is connected to ticket & pass scans using RFID readers so it tracks you automatically.
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This app is amazing and offers a LOT of tools to make your day on the ski mountain, easier, fun and more organized. Here is a breakdown of the features that EpicMix brings to the table.
This is a great way to get you amped up for a day on the mountain whether you are skiing by yourself or with family or friends it gives you clear, concise goals to try to attain by the end of the day. It just gives your day a fun, competitive edge.
There are tons of challenges but here are a few examples so you get the idea.
Challenge yourself and your friends to tons of challenges and pins for bragging rights to keep the excitement up! Once you have accomplished a challenge or a pin you can have it automatically sent out on social media so all your friends will know your accomplishment!
The EpicMix Guide is like having your own private tour guide in your pocket. With it you can plan a perfect day on the ski mountain. Just create it, save it and track it. Save your selected Guide to your profile before you go skiing. To do this, enter the resort you are skiing, your level of skiing experience, beginner, intermediate or advance and the amount of time you have to ski that day; hours, half day, full day.
The app will give you a complete itinerary of where to go and what trails to use It will even tell you which side of the lift you should exit from. Track your progress on your phone as you explore the mountain. Super fun, and super easy, even if you have never been to the ski resort before!
The idea is as you and your family ski the mountain you will see the EpicMix on-mountain photographers who will take your photo for free. Then you can share it with your friends and family and also purchase a high quality digital download.
Vail offer specials like: Unlimited high resolution photo downloads this season all for just $50! So make sure you check before you purchase that there is not a special deal going on.
See what the day will bring! This is a great way to check up-to-the-minute snow conditions, view web cams, check lift wait times, and more, all from your EpicMix account. Just click on Conditions in the App and it will give you the information for the resort closet to your phones location.
Check out trail maps for the entire ski resort. Vail Resort has maps for The Front Side, The Back Bowls and Blue Sky Basin. You are the blue dot on the map, see where you go. You can always change your ski map to any of the ski resorts in the EpicMix portfolio by clicking on the little blue arrow at the top of the App screen on your phone. On this map you will also see estimated time waits for all lifts
Want to know how you or your kids are really doing in Ski School? Track your kiddos Ski & Snowboard School progress with EpicMix!
For example, does your child:
View their accomplishments and see if they earn certified pins from their instructor from your personal dashboard. You can even share their achievements with your friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.
EpicMix is taking your families’ ski and snowboarding experience to a whole new level. Now you can track your on-mountain achievements and link family members to see their accomplishments. Capture your family’s memories, track your milestones and share your photos all from the App. Parents can also use EpicMix to track the lift rides of their kids in real time.
Kids EpicMix – There is also 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.
Makes recording your amateur racing statistics easy, see yourself on the EpicMix Racing leaderboard featuring the top 100 ski racers. Race against friends, family, professional skiers, even Lindsey Vonn! You can also share your race pins, photos, race medals and check-ins manually or automatically. Have fun comparing your race times with friends.
Make planning your vacation even easier with EpicMix Time Insights. This will show you the actual lift line wait times and snow totals from previous ski seasons. Review the mountain tips and discover that no matter what day you plan to visit, there is always a piece of the mountain to be explored.
Its EASY! EpicMix does not require you to do anything but ski and ride as you always have. There is nothing to buy, and no required check-ins with your cell phone. The functionality is embedded into Vail Resorts’ existing season passes and PEAKS lift tickets. But keep in mind, you are going to want to install the app, log in, add your friends and family members, turn on the social sharing and maybe add the credit card option before your trip. You do not want to be doing this on the chairlift on a powder day!
Have you used EpicMix before? Do you love it? Do you hate it? What is your favorite feature of EpicMix and what would you change if you could? We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
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I have not heard of EpicMix before but this is good to know. I have two brothers who loves this kind of adventure and I am sure they would be ecstatic to hear about this app. We are all going to California for the winter holiday this year. This would be the best time to test it out. Thanks for the tip.
Hello and thanks for your comment. Yes, you can absolutely use the EpicMix app on your trip to California because the EpicMix is the official app for Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood, all ski resorts in California! Have fun and tell me how you and your brother liked using the app.
I know this is a really popular app within the skiing community. I usually use the EpicMix app at Stowe as I live on the East Coast and it is amazing. I will be taking a ski vacation to Park City, Utah in the spring and can't wait to try it there. I already have my whole family loaded into the system and I am connected to Facebook so when I complete challenges like the !) Buck Challenge where you ride 10 lifts in a single day My friends at home will be super jealous, (just kidding...kind of) The Epic Mix is a really nice community of like minded friends coming together, and doing what they love best, skiing or snowboarding because of the app.
Wow! Have a great time in Park City, it is the largest ski area in the United States! And good luck completing lots of challenges and scoring some accomplishment pins. Don't forget to try EpicMix Racing where you can win medals and race against professional skiers, like Lindsey Vonn.
Hi! I have been researching EpicMix. We will be traveling to Vail this winter and I want to use this app but I am unfamiliar with it. I loved your article,as it helped make everything very clear and apparent as to what features it offers and how to use them. I’m excited to use EpicMix trail maps and the lift line wait time feature as it seems like if we ski on the weekends we are always waiting in a long chairlift line- I am hoping NO MORE long lift lines for us. So I want to get started and I have learned it’s very simple to register and start using EpicMix. So I'll be giving it a try on our next Ski Vacation to Vail. Thank you very much for this review!
Hi Henry, So glad you found this helpful. Yes I think you will have a ball using the EpicMix Appp and yes it will help you see which chairlifts have the longest lift lines so you can avoid those until they thin out. It's also a great way to see which runs have been groomed.
I love the EpicMix Guide, I think it's the best feature on the app Cause it solves the problem of not knowing where to go. If I know the ski mountain well, it mixes up my normal routes and I can ride something fresh in the amount of time I have allotted. If I am not familiar with the mountain at all, it will safely guide me to some great trails that are perfectly suited to my ability.
Hi Zuchi, Yes, this is what I do too! I have a tendency to do the same runs that I know over and over, which can be fun and great exercise but it's nice to be able to change it up. I don't have to look at a map or figure out what trails are good for my ability. I just plug all the details into the app and it guides me to fun trails all over the mountain in the amount of time I have before I have to go back to work. It's so convenient!
EpicMix has some really good features. It is great having a web for kids under 14 yr. That way the kids can be involved too and share all their fun challenges with their friends and their parents and other family members. I like that I can see what your kids are up to even if I am not skiing with them. It is a great way to stay connected even if you are skiing black diamond moguls and your kids are in ski school. Great App! Thank you and enjoy the snow 😊
Hi Maria, thanks for the comments. Yes the EpicMix a great app for kids too and really gets them involved and enthusiastic about skiing and snowboarding.